Michael Coutts
Peer Supporter
John Sarno had a 90% success rate in healing his patients after screening out the ones who weren't likely to accept his theories (which TMS Wiki may naturally do as folks not open to mindbody will probably just leave this site)
At a point in Sarno's career he had to stop including physical therapies as part of his program. He described this as a sad situation as the folks doing the physical therapy were good people.
Sarno recommends to THINK PSYCHOLOGICAL, NOT PHYSICAL, and this is why he talks about therapies like massage and excercise to be used only because you enjoy it and it doesn't do harm (as in, it doesn't distract you from understanding that your buried rage is causing your symptoms). He strongly recommends that you keep your mind foccussed on mind work- as in talking to your brain about all of your buried rage.
Taking a week long hot yoga class when you are a young mother with an endlessly needy baby (who you adore), a farm, and a partner, could easily be seen as an incredibly welcome break from incessant motherhood and responsible adulthood.
This also sounds like it happened at a time when the many years that can accrue major mountains of buried rage spent in responsible adulthood were yet to come.
20 years ago I also had a successful encounter with alternative healing. Working at a health food store in the city, I started experiencing a bizarre painful hip symptom. I was recommended to an 'Orthobionomist'. I paid 50 bucks, walked up and down the hall while the practioner observed, had some mild body manipulations, and was sent home with a stretching program. I had good success. In hindsight- it was quite exciting to hire an alternative healer for the first time in my life (I had only ever been to conventional doctors and dentists for mundane ordinary reasons). I also changed my lifestyle and location (off to organic farming) which was a huge relief from city life, and so of course I healed up with minimal problems for many years.
A short trip in the U.S (I'm Canadian) while I was practicing a (short-lived) vegan diet left me rolling over in pain in my guts. At the end of this trip I took a 3 day cooking/healing class with a food and nutrition writer that I was a big fan of. She was grandmotherly and cooked good food and told me to stop eating a vegan diet (and also set me up believing that I had wheat & cow milk allergies for many years- nocebos) and so of course that stopped the stomach pain- a good dose of love and nurture.
Yoga and stretching and massage and qi gong and special diets and walking in the woods and gardening are all, totally personal, healing modalities that are totally individual.
I am going to mention a brand new therapy called 'White Stripes Therapy' that I just made up today. Before learning Sarno's life changing therapies, I was in the throws of intense regular migraines amongst other pains. During my migraines I had to avoid bright lights and sounds and such...... However, I would find that when I would crank up noisy White Stripes and Jack White albums on the stereo full blast, my migraines would lessen! How crazy is that.
I have actually met another person who I talked to this about who claimed that Jack White's music also helped him through some rough times.
Now I'm sure that there are enough White Stripes fans in the world that would probably accept and be benefited by White Stripes Therapy, and probably already are.
One of the best things about this type of therapy is that when you crank up the noisiest of the White Stripes, it can drown out conversations in your household that you don't want to hear in the other room, from people who might actually be contributing to your reservoir of rage (this is probably why it is so therapeutic).
Really though, White Stripes Therapy has absolutely no place whatsoever being talked about on a John Sarno page.
Although Yoga, meditations, walks in the park, screaming into pillows, throwing rocks, hot baths, board games, good food, funny TV shows, inspirational books, and on and on, can, on a personal level (and shared level) be therapeutic tools, they are totally distracting from John Sarno's methods.
Why might all of these different modalities be effective pain and symptom relievers? Perhaps, if because when we really like doing them and can identify positively with them, then they are welcome breaks to rage burying. If we really love to do something and find healing from it so much that we will change our schedules, turn off our phones, close the door with a DO NOT DISTURB sign, or drive away to a welcome appointment, then we are really feeding our ID, our Child Self, in a big good important way. We are setting a form of boundary, even if that means turning up a stereo so loud without consideration for other people- we are setting a boundary and doing something truly for ourselves.
I could write a list that would be dizzying with all of the fine, enjoyable and thought provoking books that I have read in my lifetime.
The reality, though, is that they don't belong on this website.
The only books that, in my strong opinion, are worth mentioning on a John Sarno healing website are John Sarno's books, as well as Marc Sopher's, and Ozanovich's (although I haven't read his books, because they weren't in our library system, I know that John Sarno himself recommended these books), and any other books that truly and completely focus on John Sarno's healing program: acknowledging and accepting, through the education of reading the literature and practicing the work, that our pain and symptoms are completely and utterly due to the buried rage that we have accumulated (and continue to accumulate) throughout our lives. And telling our brains that THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE- STOP THE PAIN, BRAIN!!!
I feel like it is totally acceptable to appear to be overly zealous on this subject because this is a website full of folks who have truly healed, or are trying to heal, from their pain using John Sarno's methods. This is a JOHN SARNO website- correct?
Although I was the sort of high school student who literally fell asleep snoring with his head on the table in class, or, if a subject bored me, would make an excuse and wouldn't come back, I feel like at this point I need to blow a whistle and shout PAY ATTENTION!!!
Recess and lunch are a great time in school for kids to talk about their favourite TV shows, books, comics, games, sports, adventures music and so on and so forth. This website is likewise an easy opportunity to talk about our enjoyable extra curricular healing activities that make us feel good. Some people could easily add smoking a joint or drinking a beer or vegging out in front of the tv all day for a highly recommended escape from pain- especially if if we enjoy these activities in an ID feeding sort of way....
I can only talk from experience when I say that reading John Sarno's books back to back (with other genuinely Sarno centric books included) over and over (20 times) has been the most highly effective pain and symptom healing program that I never ever fathomed existed.
Even if White Stripes Therapy takes off and heals many people on some sort of temporary level, like placebo pills, it really doesn't belong on TMS WIKI. My only hopes about mentioning it here is that the word can get out to Jack White about John Sarno's methods, so that he can use them to vanquish his pain and continue making great music (in my opinion) for many many years. I wrote him a letter about John Sarno before our farm got destroyed by a massive flood in 2021- though I have never sent it. We have only had the internet here for a year, and so I actually had no clue as to how famous he actually was until nature blasted us out into the big world, and my low self esteem has prevented me from mailing him a letter about Sarno (his albums first showed up on our local bookmobile).
Anyways, especially for folks who are new to Sarno's methods, I recommend this: If anybody is recommending any other books or healing techniques then put them on your backburner and ignore them until Sarno's methods have really sunk in deep into your subconscious (this is the program).
Reading other non-Sarno books may only distract you- maybe even our brains do try to distract us from Sarno's work by sending our attention elsewhere, to other enjoyable physical therapies and thoughtful meditations on life.
I have loaned out over 40 John Sarno books from our Healing Pain Library at our farm. I mostly never met any of these people, and few have returned these books. For the few people that I have been personally loaning his books to and keeping in conversation with, I have noticed that some people will read a Sarno book once, then read a whole bunch of other interesting mind-body books, and will return a while later kind of confused about Sarno's methods and I will need to explain them again.... I wonder why they don't just bite the bullet and keep reading Sarno's books again and again thereby really getting the message down. It is kind of like studying for what for many people could be the biggest test of their lives. BUCKLE DOWN AND STUDY SARNO'S BOOKS!!! Howard Stern recommends this too!
I am trying hard not to offend anybody on this website. I really don't want to get banned from here. I do see that some issues need to be raised, especially when they direct our attention away from Sarno's teachings.
Even though it is fine to recommend other healing modalities and literature, it is especially important with people who are new to Sarno's theories, that we all work hard to keep them on track.
Three Cheers For the GREAT HEALER JOHN SARNO- HOORAY!!!!
At a point in Sarno's career he had to stop including physical therapies as part of his program. He described this as a sad situation as the folks doing the physical therapy were good people.
Sarno recommends to THINK PSYCHOLOGICAL, NOT PHYSICAL, and this is why he talks about therapies like massage and excercise to be used only because you enjoy it and it doesn't do harm (as in, it doesn't distract you from understanding that your buried rage is causing your symptoms). He strongly recommends that you keep your mind foccussed on mind work- as in talking to your brain about all of your buried rage.
Taking a week long hot yoga class when you are a young mother with an endlessly needy baby (who you adore), a farm, and a partner, could easily be seen as an incredibly welcome break from incessant motherhood and responsible adulthood.
This also sounds like it happened at a time when the many years that can accrue major mountains of buried rage spent in responsible adulthood were yet to come.
20 years ago I also had a successful encounter with alternative healing. Working at a health food store in the city, I started experiencing a bizarre painful hip symptom. I was recommended to an 'Orthobionomist'. I paid 50 bucks, walked up and down the hall while the practioner observed, had some mild body manipulations, and was sent home with a stretching program. I had good success. In hindsight- it was quite exciting to hire an alternative healer for the first time in my life (I had only ever been to conventional doctors and dentists for mundane ordinary reasons). I also changed my lifestyle and location (off to organic farming) which was a huge relief from city life, and so of course I healed up with minimal problems for many years.
A short trip in the U.S (I'm Canadian) while I was practicing a (short-lived) vegan diet left me rolling over in pain in my guts. At the end of this trip I took a 3 day cooking/healing class with a food and nutrition writer that I was a big fan of. She was grandmotherly and cooked good food and told me to stop eating a vegan diet (and also set me up believing that I had wheat & cow milk allergies for many years- nocebos) and so of course that stopped the stomach pain- a good dose of love and nurture.
Yoga and stretching and massage and qi gong and special diets and walking in the woods and gardening are all, totally personal, healing modalities that are totally individual.
I am going to mention a brand new therapy called 'White Stripes Therapy' that I just made up today. Before learning Sarno's life changing therapies, I was in the throws of intense regular migraines amongst other pains. During my migraines I had to avoid bright lights and sounds and such...... However, I would find that when I would crank up noisy White Stripes and Jack White albums on the stereo full blast, my migraines would lessen! How crazy is that.
I have actually met another person who I talked to this about who claimed that Jack White's music also helped him through some rough times.
Now I'm sure that there are enough White Stripes fans in the world that would probably accept and be benefited by White Stripes Therapy, and probably already are.
One of the best things about this type of therapy is that when you crank up the noisiest of the White Stripes, it can drown out conversations in your household that you don't want to hear in the other room, from people who might actually be contributing to your reservoir of rage (this is probably why it is so therapeutic).
Really though, White Stripes Therapy has absolutely no place whatsoever being talked about on a John Sarno page.
Although Yoga, meditations, walks in the park, screaming into pillows, throwing rocks, hot baths, board games, good food, funny TV shows, inspirational books, and on and on, can, on a personal level (and shared level) be therapeutic tools, they are totally distracting from John Sarno's methods.
Why might all of these different modalities be effective pain and symptom relievers? Perhaps, if because when we really like doing them and can identify positively with them, then they are welcome breaks to rage burying. If we really love to do something and find healing from it so much that we will change our schedules, turn off our phones, close the door with a DO NOT DISTURB sign, or drive away to a welcome appointment, then we are really feeding our ID, our Child Self, in a big good important way. We are setting a form of boundary, even if that means turning up a stereo so loud without consideration for other people- we are setting a boundary and doing something truly for ourselves.
I could write a list that would be dizzying with all of the fine, enjoyable and thought provoking books that I have read in my lifetime.
The reality, though, is that they don't belong on this website.
The only books that, in my strong opinion, are worth mentioning on a John Sarno healing website are John Sarno's books, as well as Marc Sopher's, and Ozanovich's (although I haven't read his books, because they weren't in our library system, I know that John Sarno himself recommended these books), and any other books that truly and completely focus on John Sarno's healing program: acknowledging and accepting, through the education of reading the literature and practicing the work, that our pain and symptoms are completely and utterly due to the buried rage that we have accumulated (and continue to accumulate) throughout our lives. And telling our brains that THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE- STOP THE PAIN, BRAIN!!!
I feel like it is totally acceptable to appear to be overly zealous on this subject because this is a website full of folks who have truly healed, or are trying to heal, from their pain using John Sarno's methods. This is a JOHN SARNO website- correct?
Although I was the sort of high school student who literally fell asleep snoring with his head on the table in class, or, if a subject bored me, would make an excuse and wouldn't come back, I feel like at this point I need to blow a whistle and shout PAY ATTENTION!!!
Recess and lunch are a great time in school for kids to talk about their favourite TV shows, books, comics, games, sports, adventures music and so on and so forth. This website is likewise an easy opportunity to talk about our enjoyable extra curricular healing activities that make us feel good. Some people could easily add smoking a joint or drinking a beer or vegging out in front of the tv all day for a highly recommended escape from pain- especially if if we enjoy these activities in an ID feeding sort of way....
I can only talk from experience when I say that reading John Sarno's books back to back (with other genuinely Sarno centric books included) over and over (20 times) has been the most highly effective pain and symptom healing program that I never ever fathomed existed.
Even if White Stripes Therapy takes off and heals many people on some sort of temporary level, like placebo pills, it really doesn't belong on TMS WIKI. My only hopes about mentioning it here is that the word can get out to Jack White about John Sarno's methods, so that he can use them to vanquish his pain and continue making great music (in my opinion) for many many years. I wrote him a letter about John Sarno before our farm got destroyed by a massive flood in 2021- though I have never sent it. We have only had the internet here for a year, and so I actually had no clue as to how famous he actually was until nature blasted us out into the big world, and my low self esteem has prevented me from mailing him a letter about Sarno (his albums first showed up on our local bookmobile).
Anyways, especially for folks who are new to Sarno's methods, I recommend this: If anybody is recommending any other books or healing techniques then put them on your backburner and ignore them until Sarno's methods have really sunk in deep into your subconscious (this is the program).
Reading other non-Sarno books may only distract you- maybe even our brains do try to distract us from Sarno's work by sending our attention elsewhere, to other enjoyable physical therapies and thoughtful meditations on life.
I have loaned out over 40 John Sarno books from our Healing Pain Library at our farm. I mostly never met any of these people, and few have returned these books. For the few people that I have been personally loaning his books to and keeping in conversation with, I have noticed that some people will read a Sarno book once, then read a whole bunch of other interesting mind-body books, and will return a while later kind of confused about Sarno's methods and I will need to explain them again.... I wonder why they don't just bite the bullet and keep reading Sarno's books again and again thereby really getting the message down. It is kind of like studying for what for many people could be the biggest test of their lives. BUCKLE DOWN AND STUDY SARNO'S BOOKS!!! Howard Stern recommends this too!
I am trying hard not to offend anybody on this website. I really don't want to get banned from here. I do see that some issues need to be raised, especially when they direct our attention away from Sarno's teachings.
Even though it is fine to recommend other healing modalities and literature, it is especially important with people who are new to Sarno's theories, that we all work hard to keep them on track.
Three Cheers For the GREAT HEALER JOHN SARNO- HOORAY!!!!