What I meant to say, is that the newer so-called "forms of TMS" (MBS, NPD, AOS, DPS...etc) have taken Dr. Sarno's work backwards into the physical arena again. I've dealt with it for years. I've worked with people who have been told by the people advocating these new labels that "they need surgery" but they don't. Dr. Sarno proved that back pain almost never comes from the spine's physical structure. Yet, it's common for people to contact me, freaked out like this thread has stated, saying their mindbody doc told them that they have a pinched nerve, and need surgery. I work with them and they heal, so they didn't need surgery.
The same is true for other forms of TMS. They are sometimes told by their mindbody doc that they have a real physical issue but they don't. They come back to TMS and heal. It's quite common, which is the only reason I responded to this thread. TMS covers the entire spectrum, and the new labels cover a narrow portion. These labels have not advanced TMS they have contracted it.
The new one is the "neural pathways" view. This is hurting more people than should be. When you understand that TMS is about obsession and diversion then you begin to get it. People contact me freaking out (to borrow a phrase again) that they have these neural pathways in their heads that they need to "get out." It's biologic thinking again. Forget about that stuff, work on the self, or more precisely the non-self. The more things that are labeled the more targets you give the obsessive mind. Focus on feelings, and as Plum says "work on faith" or I would say belief/perception.
The mind governs the body and brain. This work should really be called "brainbody" work because mind will never be seen. It resides on the surface to monitor the inside and outside. The mind is the hell.
Dr. Hanscom could be admired for at least stepping out and trying, but he's wrong in many things he currently advocates. Some will say, "I healed with his book, or that book...." But 1 to 10 intersects with 0 to 100 on occasion. It's frustrating for me to work with people who are told that "if there's sciatica, or leg weakness, or foot drop that it's not TMS...that's a pinched nerve!" This is not true in almost all cases. TMS produces these alterations in the body, just listen to Dr. Sarno's interviews and talk to the TMS docs he trained. Dr. Hanscom was not trained by Dr. Sarno.
The new labels that came after TMS have slowed Dr. Sarno's work, diluted it and confused more people. The good doctor had hoped bright minds would come later to advance his work. God knows he is humble and felt that people could add to it, but for reasons unknown they have detracted from it, and disappointed him greatly. He deserves his work to be magnified not watered down.
I'm not sure if that explains it well enough, but it gets even deeper when you get into the quantum world, "healing from within." The possibilities are endless, as I have witnessed. But the medical industry cannot let go of trying to fix the body. Thus, sometimes they freak people out needlessly.
We need good doctors, they are vital to society, but they need to stop crippling people with insidious words of advice. They can be lifesavers, and they can debilitate people, as they do daily with erroneous notions. The body simply does what the mind tells it. This is TMS, and it's a wide universe the good doctor opened up. We need to keep opening it, not close it.
There are people with split personalities who are diabetic in one personality and not diabetic while in the other personalty. So how can diabetes be a body problem? The history of the person needs to be investigated, and that dark emotional side that we fear to tread.
Ah, freak out! le freak c'est Chic, have you heard about the new dance craze?
SteveO
