Are you looking for experiences of passing the information on, or people's first hand experiences with their own rage?
When I was younger and had first recovered from TMS, like most new converts, I blabbed about Sarno at every opportunity. I got a lot of angry responses. "Yeah? Well my pain is REAL" "I am NOT angry"... etc...
Now that I am almost 55 and still playing Baseball, working heavy labor construction, getting drilled by fastballs, humping heavy piles of lumber and supplies all day, and working through injuries that would shut down a younger person, I have had a lot more success. Living this and being an example is the best advertisement.
I never bring up the information in a group setting (ego flares up) and I only bring it up to people who are frustrated with 'the regular approach'
One of the guys on my crew is having back pain right now. I counseled him out of some pain before. He understands this :
"beware!, a part of you, the inner or residual child according Freud, could be 'dangerously' enfuriated"
but NOW he can't seem to figure out what he is angry about? I think I know.
He's angry at ME. He is a foot taller than me, stronger, better looking and 24 years younger.... he fancies himself a leader and is used to other guys looking up to him. But I don't. Like most 'toxic males' I judge everybody by their work, not their ability or potential. Subsequently he is often on my shit list for day dreaming and chatting on the phone. I Imagine if he could he would beat the snot out of me.... but he is too nice of a guy. I feel like I ought to tell him, but I have been waiting for the right time.
As I have written before, we are the descendants of winners. The guys who beat the other guys. The killers, the war winners, the resource acquirers, the partnered up. Male or Female, lots and lots of people had to LOSE for you to be here right now. But our modern culture seems bent on pretending that the world is a warm fuzzy Marianne Williamson convention. That atavistic tendency to win is NOT going to be evolved out of us in a generation or two.
Someone asked Eckhart Tolle why mindfulness is so hard to achieve for people in the wealthy, peaceful west. "What about people living in a war torn country like Iraq?". He pointed out that when you might die at any moment, there is no need to look for mindfulness... you are already there living the reality on a razors edge. You are Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Thich Nhat Han all rolled into one. Presence. In the proximity of death, all mental constructs are revealed to be what they are....fleeting and temporary.
You can end the loop. First, by admitting it IS a loop and then by watching the loop... don't judge the loop, just admit it is there and watch it. Learn about yourself at your basest nature. Distill it again and again. You might even get the double benefit of admitting the depth of your rage AND no longer being at it's mercy.
this is a magic process.
