Expressing Doctor Sarno is best done by Doctor Sarno. Quote Doctor Sarno.
Regurgitation is not accurate representation of Doctor Sarno. Tampering with correct information contributes to the confusion.
In Marks Daily Apple, " When something hurts, your nervous system is telling you that something is wrong with your body (that stove is hot, your ankle is sprained, you pulled your hamstring) and you should fix it (pull your hand away, elevate and stay off your ankle, warm-up before you sprint next time)." According to Doctor Sarno, the something that is wrong with your body is harmless and benign and will end when the cover is blown on the covert action to distract from unconscious emotions. Keep the facts up front. There is not an injury in almost all cases.
In Marks Daily Apply, "Acute pain can usually be trusted. Chronic pain is trickier. There may have been initial tissue damage, but instead of decreasing the pain as the damage healed, it increased: chronic pain usually gets worse, not better." According to Doctor Sarno, the acute attack is most common in psychosomatic syndromes and they often become chronic. Therefore, they are the same, TMS across the board. And, keep the facts up front. Although it is possible there may have been initial tissue damage that leads to chronic pain, in almost all cases there is not initial tissue damage and there is not an injury.
This is very important says the good Doctor!
All well meaning marketers, be they Doctors, self help gurus, or God knows who...should not interpret Doctor Sarno. They should quote him.
The problem is confusion! Please do not reinvent the wheel. You cannot perfect perfection. Doctor Sarno himself said if a drug were developed that could block the signals from the mind to the body to cause psychosomatic pain as distraction from unconscious emotions, he would not prescribe the drug. Because, to do so would treat the symptom and not uproot the cause.
There are two ballparks, the physical and psychological. Doctor Sarno says plant both feet in the psychological. Or else you are doomed.