Michael Coutts
Peer Supporter
Hello all,
I want to address a serious issue: diets. I posted my first post the other day on TMS Wiki about the website sarnoclinic.com and was criticizing this website for mentioning nightshade vegetables (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants) as being linked with arthritis.
I should no longer criticize this website as any site promoting Sarno's techniques should be applauded. Still...
Diets are really a major societal and health problem that is fully sweeping much of the world. There is so much powerful evidence in favour of every edible food under the sun being totally complicit in all ailments, pains, planetary pollutions and more. It is truly a wonder that anything on earth can eat anything at all without the planet exploding instantaneously!
When you look at this through 'the Sarno Lens', as my wife Brandie says, then all evidence that says that foods cause illnesses and pains is a bunch of bullshit (which is excellent fertilizer for first class fruits and veggies- no joke- Bull Shit has grown some of the highest quality melons, carrots, and snap peas that our family farm has produced, and grown by our daughter who was 10 at the time!)
I just last night posted my big healing journey with Sarno's methods and the craziness that beset our family farm the past couple of years. It is sad to say that the 'BullShit' garden that grew such deluxe produce was swept from our Nicola Valley by a mighty flood in November 2021..... Sad but true.
Anyways..... I have definitely had a long history in buying into every diet and food restriction and have in my past made countless recommendations that food was making people sick and have probably been complicit in a bunch of psychosomatic symptoms with all sorts of well meaning folks.
Prior to 2020, before I knew of John Sarno's methods, I was an absolutely wreck of symptoms. The only food that I could eat had to be grown by my family on our organic farm, or had to be organic and wheat free. We had to prepare it ourselves (we grind our own flour for all sourdough bread and baking, we raise our own chickens, cows, goats, and turkeys for meat, milk and eggs, we raise all our own vegetables and fruits in our organic orchards and gardens) and there is no doubt whatsoever that our diet has been absolutely top notch first class and probably of the caliber that the King of England eats though is produced by our own toil and sweat!
We still eat all this great food and wouldn't change it. However, if, before using Sarno's methods, if I ate any food at any community function, or in a restaurant, or cooked by friends and family, I would be sick and ill. Anything from bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and- more often than not, full blown migraine headaches with all night vomiting totally accepting that if I died in that moment I would be okay with it because I was feeling so downright horrible!
Over the years I have avoided hot peppers, tomatoes (though skinned and deseeded I could eat) all wheat products, the bran sifted from grain, coffee, alcohol, non-organic food.... etcetera etcetera.
I have taken multi day fasts, eaten vegan and vegetarian diets, or nothing but fruit for days. My wife and I operated a completely organic on farm bistro where we produced all the food and delivered prepared organic meals to folks in Vancouver.
I am a chartered herbalist having taken a course that allows me to make and sell and prescribe herbal remedies.
I have recommended flax seed oil and gluten free diets and the importance of soaking nuts and grains before using and that some species of cows milk can give you every ailment under the sun (to the point that we intentionally sought out our amazing Jersey Milk Cow Tina who was worth all the nutritional misinformation, and who's milk makes deluxe cheeses and lattes and yogurt, and who was airlifted off of our farm during the 2021 floods- check out Tina the Flying Cow on youtube)
After achieving great success with Sarno's books in 2020 I have been able to eat anything that I have desired or even undesired to eat with no problems anymore. I don't get stomache pains, lethargy, diarrhea, constipation or any symptoms in regards to food I eat. If there is some especially stressful situations going on in my life then I may experience some symptoms, but I know what really causes these symptoms.
After our farm was half destroyed from the 2021 floods and we were forced to evacuate completely for 5 months, then could only access our home by helicopter or hiking for a further 3 months, we were cast out into the big world to experience all of the stuff that would have absolutely killed me pre-Sarno.
Suddenly, without our farm, we were shopping in grocery stores and eating in restaurants (we did rescue some of our veggies, wheels of hard cheese, beef, and eggs from the farm- the rest was abandoned to the wild animals to feast upon- tens of thousands of dollars worth of food and animals!)
We were buying milk and dairy and bread and conventional food and really, experiencing no problems due to the food (we had enough problems with dealing with our wrecked farm from afar!). Foods that would make me sick have no effect on me anymore. Hot dogs on a stick- no problem. Fast food cheeseburgers- no problem. Ice cream- no problem.....
We are way back on track at our farm now and eat all of our own food again. Eggs and sourdough bread and salad and homemade bacon (from a friend's pigs) all cooked in butter for breakfast every day. Strong lattes after our second chores. Fruit and yogurt. Homemade cheeses and meats and glorious salads and homemade baking with fresh ground grain and honey and our own whipped cream. Chicken and french fries- on and on.
There is no doubt that we eat like kings and queens and princesses here on our farm and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Still- being out in the big world and shopping in grocery stores I was blown away at the quality of the food available, especially after 20 years of not really shopping in grocery stores. So much of the quality is first class and so available in this part of the world (as in nobody dropping bombs on anybody in North America)...
The biggest thing holding everybody back from enjoying all of the great food is their minds! Truly, we fear and criticize foods and blame foods for everything under the sun due to this theory or that, or this scientific study or that.... When you toss in the emotions, buried rage, and look at it all through 'The Sarno Lens', then all of these convincing studies seem like pure hokum, or bullshit.
Furthermore, there are even more huge problems with all of these convincing arguments against eating food. There are currently huge political forces going against farmers all over the world. No kidding, most farmers in North America are totally scared shitless that they are going to lose their food growing rights, or are going to lose all of their customers (people who eat food) because of policies that restrict what food they can grow and raise.
There are folks out there who think that the best solution for food and nutrition are to be found in giant pea protein production facilities. I love peas- I have fond memories of shucking them with my grandma. We grow delectable sweet snappy peas on our farm, and we used to make sprouted pea falafels at our vegetarian restaurant that were pretty good. But as a food to replace meat, milk and eggs- no thanks.
Poor chickens and cows and pigs who may face being relegated to animal sanctuaries or sent to extinction- animals falsely accused of so many problems, yet who just enjoy a good life as much as any creature on earth (and obviously a good life involves natural foods and sunshine). If people all start believing that good foods that folks have been eating for as long as folks have been around are causing all of their ailments, then farms and animals and bakeries are all in trouble.....
Anyways, I hope that all of you folks reading this post here on the John Sarno page are talking heavily to their brains about all of the bullshit in their lives and can start living better and eating all of the fine food that we're blessed here on earth to be able to enjoy!
Happy Healing,
Michael
I want to address a serious issue: diets. I posted my first post the other day on TMS Wiki about the website sarnoclinic.com and was criticizing this website for mentioning nightshade vegetables (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants) as being linked with arthritis.
I should no longer criticize this website as any site promoting Sarno's techniques should be applauded. Still...
Diets are really a major societal and health problem that is fully sweeping much of the world. There is so much powerful evidence in favour of every edible food under the sun being totally complicit in all ailments, pains, planetary pollutions and more. It is truly a wonder that anything on earth can eat anything at all without the planet exploding instantaneously!
When you look at this through 'the Sarno Lens', as my wife Brandie says, then all evidence that says that foods cause illnesses and pains is a bunch of bullshit (which is excellent fertilizer for first class fruits and veggies- no joke- Bull Shit has grown some of the highest quality melons, carrots, and snap peas that our family farm has produced, and grown by our daughter who was 10 at the time!)
I just last night posted my big healing journey with Sarno's methods and the craziness that beset our family farm the past couple of years. It is sad to say that the 'BullShit' garden that grew such deluxe produce was swept from our Nicola Valley by a mighty flood in November 2021..... Sad but true.
Anyways..... I have definitely had a long history in buying into every diet and food restriction and have in my past made countless recommendations that food was making people sick and have probably been complicit in a bunch of psychosomatic symptoms with all sorts of well meaning folks.
Prior to 2020, before I knew of John Sarno's methods, I was an absolutely wreck of symptoms. The only food that I could eat had to be grown by my family on our organic farm, or had to be organic and wheat free. We had to prepare it ourselves (we grind our own flour for all sourdough bread and baking, we raise our own chickens, cows, goats, and turkeys for meat, milk and eggs, we raise all our own vegetables and fruits in our organic orchards and gardens) and there is no doubt whatsoever that our diet has been absolutely top notch first class and probably of the caliber that the King of England eats though is produced by our own toil and sweat!
We still eat all this great food and wouldn't change it. However, if, before using Sarno's methods, if I ate any food at any community function, or in a restaurant, or cooked by friends and family, I would be sick and ill. Anything from bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and- more often than not, full blown migraine headaches with all night vomiting totally accepting that if I died in that moment I would be okay with it because I was feeling so downright horrible!
Over the years I have avoided hot peppers, tomatoes (though skinned and deseeded I could eat) all wheat products, the bran sifted from grain, coffee, alcohol, non-organic food.... etcetera etcetera.
I have taken multi day fasts, eaten vegan and vegetarian diets, or nothing but fruit for days. My wife and I operated a completely organic on farm bistro where we produced all the food and delivered prepared organic meals to folks in Vancouver.
I am a chartered herbalist having taken a course that allows me to make and sell and prescribe herbal remedies.
I have recommended flax seed oil and gluten free diets and the importance of soaking nuts and grains before using and that some species of cows milk can give you every ailment under the sun (to the point that we intentionally sought out our amazing Jersey Milk Cow Tina who was worth all the nutritional misinformation, and who's milk makes deluxe cheeses and lattes and yogurt, and who was airlifted off of our farm during the 2021 floods- check out Tina the Flying Cow on youtube)
After achieving great success with Sarno's books in 2020 I have been able to eat anything that I have desired or even undesired to eat with no problems anymore. I don't get stomache pains, lethargy, diarrhea, constipation or any symptoms in regards to food I eat. If there is some especially stressful situations going on in my life then I may experience some symptoms, but I know what really causes these symptoms.
After our farm was half destroyed from the 2021 floods and we were forced to evacuate completely for 5 months, then could only access our home by helicopter or hiking for a further 3 months, we were cast out into the big world to experience all of the stuff that would have absolutely killed me pre-Sarno.
Suddenly, without our farm, we were shopping in grocery stores and eating in restaurants (we did rescue some of our veggies, wheels of hard cheese, beef, and eggs from the farm- the rest was abandoned to the wild animals to feast upon- tens of thousands of dollars worth of food and animals!)
We were buying milk and dairy and bread and conventional food and really, experiencing no problems due to the food (we had enough problems with dealing with our wrecked farm from afar!). Foods that would make me sick have no effect on me anymore. Hot dogs on a stick- no problem. Fast food cheeseburgers- no problem. Ice cream- no problem.....
We are way back on track at our farm now and eat all of our own food again. Eggs and sourdough bread and salad and homemade bacon (from a friend's pigs) all cooked in butter for breakfast every day. Strong lattes after our second chores. Fruit and yogurt. Homemade cheeses and meats and glorious salads and homemade baking with fresh ground grain and honey and our own whipped cream. Chicken and french fries- on and on.
There is no doubt that we eat like kings and queens and princesses here on our farm and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Still- being out in the big world and shopping in grocery stores I was blown away at the quality of the food available, especially after 20 years of not really shopping in grocery stores. So much of the quality is first class and so available in this part of the world (as in nobody dropping bombs on anybody in North America)...
The biggest thing holding everybody back from enjoying all of the great food is their minds! Truly, we fear and criticize foods and blame foods for everything under the sun due to this theory or that, or this scientific study or that.... When you toss in the emotions, buried rage, and look at it all through 'The Sarno Lens', then all of these convincing studies seem like pure hokum, or bullshit.
Furthermore, there are even more huge problems with all of these convincing arguments against eating food. There are currently huge political forces going against farmers all over the world. No kidding, most farmers in North America are totally scared shitless that they are going to lose their food growing rights, or are going to lose all of their customers (people who eat food) because of policies that restrict what food they can grow and raise.
There are folks out there who think that the best solution for food and nutrition are to be found in giant pea protein production facilities. I love peas- I have fond memories of shucking them with my grandma. We grow delectable sweet snappy peas on our farm, and we used to make sprouted pea falafels at our vegetarian restaurant that were pretty good. But as a food to replace meat, milk and eggs- no thanks.
Poor chickens and cows and pigs who may face being relegated to animal sanctuaries or sent to extinction- animals falsely accused of so many problems, yet who just enjoy a good life as much as any creature on earth (and obviously a good life involves natural foods and sunshine). If people all start believing that good foods that folks have been eating for as long as folks have been around are causing all of their ailments, then farms and animals and bakeries are all in trouble.....
Anyways, I hope that all of you folks reading this post here on the John Sarno page are talking heavily to their brains about all of the bullshit in their lives and can start living better and eating all of the fine food that we're blessed here on earth to be able to enjoy!
Happy Healing,
Michael