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It's wonderful to read the replies to Alan Gordon's on how letting go of fear can lead to TMS healing. Dr. Sarno would applaud his views, and so do I. I'm 87 now and can honestly thank the severe back pain that came on more than three years ago because thanks to a nurse friend who told me about TMS, I read Healing Back Pain. I came to this web site and began the Structured Educational Program. Journaling led me to discover that I had been repressing anger and other emotions since I was seven years old and my parents divorced. That took the floor out from under me and I began living with feelings of abandonment and insecurity. I didn't realize this until my closest friends divorced. I realized that that triggered the long-held repressed emotions from my parents' divorce.
Through understanding TMS and journaling, I came to accept my feelings, forgive my parents, and go on from there. TMS understanding and Alan Gordon's analysis of the part that fear plays in healing are both profound and simple. Most of what we fear never happens. We have a choice: be negative or positive. If I fall into the negative trap, I remind myself to fear not. One of the best ways I change my doom-and-gloom thinking is to laugh at fear.