Michael Coutts
Peer Supporter
Hello TMS wiki folks,
I am new to posting to this website but have visited it a few times.
I have been successfully using Sarno's techniques since June 2020, and have had my life totally transformed, both by his healing techniques and natural disasters that have disrupted my family's farm.....
I am finally writing a post here on account of a website that I have encountered: sarnoclinic.com
Although I should be rejoicing about another site recommending John Sarno's works (which I am), I am also disturbed at many other recommendations on this site that actually have nothing to do with John Sarno or his teachings (as far as I understand, having read his best books 20 times front to back- no joke).
Just scratching the surface of this site there are recommendations for 'relaxing' therapies like yoga and dietary recommendations like eating low fat and avoiding nightshade vegetables, and even the spelling of mind-body instead of mindbody (which is how Sarno preferred the word spelled).
Prior to reading Sarno's books I suffered from a wide diversity of agonizing pain including severe migraines, digestive problems and food sensitivites, tailbone pain, neck pain and stiffness, anxiety, tooth pain (with several teeth pulled), knee pain, elbow pain, and all sorts of crazy symptoms that we all know about...
My family operates an organic farm where we operated an all organic bistro for 10 years, and now have a market stand selling fresh produce. I am a chartered herbalist from some previous time in my life. I have researched and experimented with all sorts of diets and alternative therapies, all of which were pretty much unsuccessful until learning of all of my buried rage that was causing all of the mayhem.
I have excluded all sorts of food from my diet- nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants), have avoided caffeine, too much meat (our bistro was vegetarian) drank only goat's milk products or no dairy, drank minimal alcohol, paid attention to food combining, took all sorts of medicinal herbs (and grew them and made tinctures and such).... and unfortunately, experienced no really amazing healing from any of it.
So I am truly concerned that this sarnoclinic page is recommended therapies that detract from Sarno's methods. Anybody can read about diets and alternative therapies from any other website on the internet- and probably many people will experience healing from them.
The reality is that they don't belong on a website promoting John Sarno's healing methods.
As he says in his books- how many relaxation techniques do we really need?
I imagine yoga can be great, but it can also be enraging (as are dietary choices). If you take yoga classes, or practice meditation, then anything that disrupts your engaging in these activities will be enraging, and will likely causes pain symptoms.
If you start eliminating foods like tomatoes and potatoes from your diet thinking they will help with pain, then you will be distracted from the true source of your pain- buried rage. Also all of the inconveniences with avoiding these foods, or changing the diet of your whole family, will definitely create more buried rage, and your brain will give you more symptoms to distract you from your buried rage...
Sarno's methods don't work for everybody. These people can ignore Sarno and go on to explore other avenues, hopefully successfully. However, websites that dilute Sarno's methods will be helping fewer people than planned. At least that's how I see it.
I hope to contribute more than just my opinions about Sarno websites on TMS wiki in the future. In this moment I think it is important to draw attention to this other problem.
There is no contact on the sarnoclinic page, so I'm hoping that somebody on this page has some connection to that page...
Happy Healing!
Peace,
Michael
I am new to posting to this website but have visited it a few times.
I have been successfully using Sarno's techniques since June 2020, and have had my life totally transformed, both by his healing techniques and natural disasters that have disrupted my family's farm.....
I am finally writing a post here on account of a website that I have encountered: sarnoclinic.com
Although I should be rejoicing about another site recommending John Sarno's works (which I am), I am also disturbed at many other recommendations on this site that actually have nothing to do with John Sarno or his teachings (as far as I understand, having read his best books 20 times front to back- no joke).
Just scratching the surface of this site there are recommendations for 'relaxing' therapies like yoga and dietary recommendations like eating low fat and avoiding nightshade vegetables, and even the spelling of mind-body instead of mindbody (which is how Sarno preferred the word spelled).
Prior to reading Sarno's books I suffered from a wide diversity of agonizing pain including severe migraines, digestive problems and food sensitivites, tailbone pain, neck pain and stiffness, anxiety, tooth pain (with several teeth pulled), knee pain, elbow pain, and all sorts of crazy symptoms that we all know about...
My family operates an organic farm where we operated an all organic bistro for 10 years, and now have a market stand selling fresh produce. I am a chartered herbalist from some previous time in my life. I have researched and experimented with all sorts of diets and alternative therapies, all of which were pretty much unsuccessful until learning of all of my buried rage that was causing all of the mayhem.
I have excluded all sorts of food from my diet- nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants), have avoided caffeine, too much meat (our bistro was vegetarian) drank only goat's milk products or no dairy, drank minimal alcohol, paid attention to food combining, took all sorts of medicinal herbs (and grew them and made tinctures and such).... and unfortunately, experienced no really amazing healing from any of it.
So I am truly concerned that this sarnoclinic page is recommended therapies that detract from Sarno's methods. Anybody can read about diets and alternative therapies from any other website on the internet- and probably many people will experience healing from them.
The reality is that they don't belong on a website promoting John Sarno's healing methods.
As he says in his books- how many relaxation techniques do we really need?
I imagine yoga can be great, but it can also be enraging (as are dietary choices). If you take yoga classes, or practice meditation, then anything that disrupts your engaging in these activities will be enraging, and will likely causes pain symptoms.
If you start eliminating foods like tomatoes and potatoes from your diet thinking they will help with pain, then you will be distracted from the true source of your pain- buried rage. Also all of the inconveniences with avoiding these foods, or changing the diet of your whole family, will definitely create more buried rage, and your brain will give you more symptoms to distract you from your buried rage...
Sarno's methods don't work for everybody. These people can ignore Sarno and go on to explore other avenues, hopefully successfully. However, websites that dilute Sarno's methods will be helping fewer people than planned. At least that's how I see it.
I hope to contribute more than just my opinions about Sarno websites on TMS wiki in the future. In this moment I think it is important to draw attention to this other problem.
There is no contact on the sarnoclinic page, so I'm hoping that somebody on this page has some connection to that page...
Happy Healing!
Peace,
Michael
