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| Baseball65 |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 09:24:48
Hello people.
I noticed in response to a query by another poster someone had recommended the MBP book...it took me a second..."The Mindbody prescription".....ooooooooh
Took me a second to figure that one out.
Anyhow...I was wondering what the general concensus amongst sarno-ites was these days about which book is/would be the most helpful to turn onto a new friend who is not indoctrinated into our perspective .
I read "healing Back Pain" before the release of MBP.When MBP came out,I of course bought a copy.I have also browsed the predecessor to HBP...can't recall the title.The person who turned me on to Sarno actually recovered using the first book.
Here's my thoughts just as a literary critique:
The very first book had diagrams and medical jargon that was very similar to the "establishment" take on the issue...I sometimes wonder If I had read that book first,whether or not I would have distinguished it as a completely revolutionary take on my predicament.....Those illustrations always make we squirm
I thought the MBP was great,as I already understood the true nature of my problem,but I thought perhaps for someone who was new it might not be a little...uh.... lacking in linear assessment and diagnosis.
kinda like A,D,F,C,B,C,E,G....close,but a little out of sequence for a new person.
Obviously I'm biased towards HBP...It had no scary illustrations,moved in a sensible and logical order,A,B,C,D,E,F....
I feel like the MBP was like an excellent appendix to HBP,and HBP was more user-friendly than the first book.
I still recommend HBP to all people who have never walked down our street..Thoughts? Observations?
just thought I'd throw that out there.
Marc
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| plainchant |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 05:30:25
"HBP" is the easiest to read, but has the disadvantage of making the reader think that TMS is mostly about back pain. However, it was the first TMS book I read, and it helped me a lot with my chest pain. "TMBP" is the most recent one and has more TMS equivilents but it is a little too technical in places. "Mind Over Back Pain" has a huge disadvantage because it was written when Dr. Sarno still prescribed physical therapy for TMS patients (which he later strongly regected). But there were one or two points in it that I found invaluable.
Dr. Mark Sopher's "To Be or Not To Be Pain Free" is pretty good. It has a good summary of TMS and it lists loads and loads of equivilents. And you can download an electronic copy right now cheap and start reading it.
I just got Dr. Brady's video program this weekend, so I'll be able to evaluate it better soon.
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| Laura |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 12:37:21
I am in agreement with Tennis Tom that the Mindbody Prescription would be the best choice. I like the way Dr. Sarno touches on the different TMS equivalents. That is probably because my problems center more around stomach problems, dizziness, TMJ, ringing in the ears etc. and not so much on my back. I have had many back problems over the years and continue to notice it from time to time, but it seems like Dr. Sarno goes into more detail about the other TMS equivalents in Mindbody Prescription.
P.S. It's nice to be back to this forum. My computer was down for a few weeks and I wasn't able to check in on this forum. I really missed it!
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| tennis tom |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 10:06:15
Dear Baseball65,
I would reccommend MBP because it is his latest book and therefore would contain his most up-to-date thoughts and research findings.
His first book was titled something like "Mind Over Back Pain". I have a nostalgic place for it in my TMS heart since it was the first book by him I read. I can still clearly remember the afternoon I stumbled upon it at a bookstore in Larkspur, CA., called a Clean Well Lighted Place, (no longer at that location I believe). A friend of mine, who is a personal trainer, wanted to buy a book in the health section. While she was looking for her book, my eye caught the long shelf-full of tomes on "back problems". My eye caught the the small paperback "Mind Over Back Pain" and I leafed through it. I didn't buy it at the time.
Shortly there-after, I came out of a yoga class in excruciating back-pain and immediately returned to the bookstore and began reading Sarno's book right in the aisle. After I read the story, by the bicyclist, flat on his back and scheduled for a bike vacation in a matter of days, who was "cured" by Sarno, I bought the book and became a Sarno devotee.
I'd say I was 50% "cured", in justthe 20 minutes I spent in the bookstore aisle reading. I remember the small $5.00 paperback fondly and that life changing moment.
I have read all three of Sarno's books, twice each. I consider them to be revisions and updates on his ongoing real-life study of the human condition and it's relationship with pain. I would recommend MBP since it moves beyond the spine, to flesh out, as it were, many equivalents that have nothing to do with the spine.
After reading MBP, I suspect ANY physical sensation I may feel, to be TMS in nature. I don't get panicky or fearful. I observe the pain, don't push beyond it for a while and invariably it evaporates as quickly as it appeared. TMS thinking has become the most valuable item in my first-aid kit. |
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