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I really want people to get better. I wouldn't hang out on this forum after all of these years If I didn't, but virtually every time I read a question on here the first 'answer' I think is "Go and read the F--ng Book"

"But I read the book"
Yeah...like a Novel. Go and make it YOUR story. And all of those 'suggestions' that Sarno makes? If you're pain is that bad, make them absolute commands like YHWH is passing the 10 words to you...live it, do it, do it more...until it's invisible and automatic and your first thought. When I do get the occasional tickle, I don't think "Oh no! What have I done?"...my very first pavlovian conditioned thought is 'Oh crap...what's going on that I am not seeing... I better get out a pen and GO READ THE BOOK. Not 10 books. This is not a buffet. Go and Read SARNO.

Go and read it again...over and over until virtually every conditioned response is de-conditioned and you have an inside track on the fundamental rage makers that trigger your TMS...I have been doing this 25 years and I haven't changed on the inside one iota. I am just not that dynamic. When I read someones life story (who is still in pain) I see someone who thinks that 'talking about it' will make it better.. it won't. 'Journaling' about your 'feelings' is not going to stop your pain UNLESS it's aim and focus is on finding and exposing Unconscious RAGE.
This is between you and you and God. That's it. You might ask a simple question, but If you're writing a book about your very special , detailed symptoms, you never got it...you had the 'beginners luck' that a lot of TMS sufferers have with their first experience...just knowing there is nothing really wrong is powerful enough to make a lot of people's symptoms TEMPORARILY go away

I am amazed at all of the feel-good hippy crap that has showed up on here that has NOTHING to do with what Sarno taught.

"But his idea's would have evolved and all of this is so much nicer... he was mean. He was like my Dad. I don't like crabby old Italian Catholic men...I want an App to do this for me.....Oh..I read it back in 2010 but this is different because.....I am doing 'somatic tracking' and I am OK being in low grade pain all of the time..but THIS is really bad....I have been meditating and going to therapy... Namaste

I have always been eternally grateful to the emergency room doctor who stuck his face in mine and said 'There is nothing wrong with you...I deal with Bullet injuries and broken bones...your 'Pain Doctor' is probably really sympathetic and says lots of warm and fuzzy feelgood things, writes you a scrip and punts...Guys go into chronic pain so they can make their 3PM tee time... I am a REAL doctor.'

That A-hole was actually the first person to tell me the truth. All of the Warm and Fuzzy hippy crap that got me 'in touch' with my feelings left me in AGONY. Focusing on the pain and becoming 'OK' with it, left me in AGONY... I want an outcome...I came here to GET OUT OF PAIN.

If you're new and wonder how to get better, GO AND READ THE BOOK. If you're relapsing and in pain GO AND READ THE BOOK. If you have a question or just need to vent? PM one of us recovered people. But remember...the A-hole who tells you the truth is way more useful than the nice person who tells you the warm and fuzzies.

namaste.....whatever that means