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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Suz[/i] [br]Hello all, It has been a while since I posted. I had to bring up this topic of anxiety because I just struck on how this is a complete EQUIVALENT. I have not suffered from back pain in almost a year - because of Sarno's work. I was working with one of his psychologists 2 years ago and I stopped the work after about 4 months because I thought it wasn't necessary and my back pain left me. I now realize absolutely for sure that I have been suffering from the symptom imperative. This is how I figured it out - I just went on holiday with my family in Italy - have not done that in many years. I spent 5 days with my mum and sister and it brought up a lot of old wounds I guess. I was amazed by my silent anger at a few things my mum said to me and jealousy that came up again in my mind that my mum loves my sister more than me - it was all very suprising. naturally, I did not share these thoughts with anyone, but got quite upset when i went to bed at night adn had time to think. Out of the blue - on the last day, my sciatica back pain came back with a vengeance as I was carrying my suitcase in the airport. It got worse when I returned home. I also noticed a strange kind of calm had come over my mind and that all the worrying I had been doing - obssessive over thinking about everything just vanished. It was as if I had had a brain lobotomy! I was calm and relaxed but my back was very painful. I had an AHA moment. I have been working with a psychologist (weekly phone calls) who is also very spiritual based to try and get rid of my anxiety. He believes it comes from being very angry and needing to forgive family members. On some levels, he is right. I called Sarno this morning to discuss the anxiety issue with him and he was absolutely adamant that this is a distraction technique of the unconscious - just like the back pain. I know he is right because my mind feels so relaxed. The answer - go back to his psychologist and finish the work. I groaned at the expense but realize that I have been wasting time with other therapists over the last 2 years. Sarno said that it can take years to shift the unconscious and not to put a time frame on it. This also depressed me because of the cost. However, at this point, I have no choice. I realize that there is insane rage in my unconscious towards my parents. In addition to the anxiety I have terrible acne/rash on my back - have had it for 3 months now and my face keeps breaking out. Sarno said these were completely equivalents. Wow - people waste years of time and money on the wrong treatment when all these symptoms are caused by the brain. I find the idea of anxiety as a distraction as very very interesting and really quite ground breaking stuff. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.