Recent content by Magicbird

Dear Steve, Thanks so much for responding to my email. It's so ironic, Steve, to realize that I first learned about Sarno's work and TMS not through traditional medical channels (as one would hope and trust) but from a pop-up ad on Amazon.com advertising your book, "The Great Pain Deception...

Hi Ines, Yes, I've read 3 or 4 of Sarno's books plus Steven Ozanich's two books, plus. Unfortunately, doctors and PTs for the most part are ignoring the medical evidence of TMS simply because everyone around them is also ignoring this evidence. It's a mind-set problem--TMS is 'too simple' an...

What can I say to best convince PT Continuing Education Providers to offer a course on TMS? I feel this might be a feasible way to bring TMS to light to the medical community, at least as a starting place. I need ideas from those of you out there who are gifted with words, primarily the...

Lexi, I believe I did try qi gong once, at least a self-help version of it. I tried a lot of the healing energy methods but they took considerable mental energy for me and none of them 'got' me where I wanted to go. TMS has done more for me than anything. But that little dish towel really...

LexyLucy, This is a little out of keeping with Sarno's philosophy but still, it really helps me: a physical therapist recommended that I take a dishtowel and roll it up lengthwise (so that the roll is long and thin rather than short and fat) and put it under my waist at night. I'll be...

Hi Lexi Lucy, I have back pain in the morning, a very stiff achy feeling, but I just go ahead and get up and ignore it for the most part. I haven't been able to fully free myself from back (and shoulder) pain but what matters most to me is that I now know I don't have to worry about it. Ie...

TO WALT, First of all, I notice your photo has a dog in it. That means you're my kind of person, a dog lover. I now foster dogs as a volunteer. Dogs aside, I decided on Monte Hueftle's program and I like it a lot. I especially benefit from his 'Think Clean' philosophy. Even God says 'We...

To Anne Walker, Thanks, Anne. I think I'll try Monte's first. I'm not really big on listening to CDs, so the more inviting the CD the better. Last time I was in Austin was when my father passed away in 2010. Before that, I'd been going back there to Austin a lot--2-3x/year--to help care for...

TO ANNE WALKER, So you did both 'Schubiner's Unlearn Your Pain' AND 'Monte's Master Practice'? Do you mean Schubiner's book and CD, or do you mean his $250 program? It sounds as if you feel that Monte's program was more helpful to you. Am I correct? Magicbird PS: I went to UT/Austin...

COLLY, THANKS for sending me John Keho's quote. I'll see if that helps me make sense about my dreams. The pink rat I was walking on a pink halter through the Indian village might have had to do with the fact that I foster dogs as a volunteer for our local animal shelter so halters and...

Thank you so much, Steve, for answering my email personally.

Hi Everyone, I'm fairly new to TMS. I just came across Ozanich's book about 3 months ago, which was my introduction to Dr. Sarno's work. I realize I need to go deeper, and I'm not sure which way to go. I read a comment on another website by a woman who did Schubiner's $250.00 program and...