Recent content by penstemon

I appreciate the recommendation of Gabor Mate's book. I've been reading it and finding it helpful in getting more clarity about the mindbody connection. I personally don't find being told that I just need to believe or that my need for rational explanations makes me one of the harder ones to...

OK, I hear what you're saying. I have to let this sit with me for a bit. It's a new narrative and I'm having trouble piecing it together with my old one that we are generally just more healthy nowadays. As for getting intellectual...I am an intellectual person. That is not going to change. I am...

I'm open to considering that my objections to Dr. Schubiner's claims are a form of resistance, but I don't see how they could be construed as irrational. The facts are plain that this virus causes illness, tissue and organ damage, and death. That doesn't mean I think that it's impossible that in...

How do you come to "humans have suddenly begun to crumble"? People have been struck down by illnesses for as long as humans have existed, and our quality of life and life expectancy is much much better now than it ever was due to advances in modern medicine. I don't doubt that the mind and body...

I know poor people with long covid and ME/CFS unfortunately and have encountered many poor people online with it as well. I don't know anyone with cancer. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist. What I do believe are people's stories about their lives. Which is why I find this work compelling and also...

@Bonnard and @JanAtheCPA - Thanks for engaging in a conversation about this! You've given me lots to think about. I do completely believe in the mindbody connection as a principle as well. I have been doing some form of brain retraining, meditations, and visualizations for a while now. I read...

Thank you for your reply @JanAtheCPA. I appreciate hearing that you think the process is more complex and individual than presented by Dr. Sarno, and I'm always glad to hear success stories! I am currently listening to Dr. Schubiner talk about Covid, and he is saying that when a virus clears and...

Hi all. I'm an analytical and scientifically minded person, but I've been toying with buying into this mindbody approach :) I fully believe that the nervous system is at the heart of my physical symptoms because I am dealing with autonomic dysfunction, which is all tied to the vagus nerve, which...