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shawnsmith
Czech Republic
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 Posted - 06/05/2007 : 20:03:01
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"In order to get the brain to stop the psychosomatic process, they must:
* Repudiate the physical structural explanation for the pain and attribute it instead to the benign altered physiology, the physical-emotional basis of TMS.
* Recognize that the pain is a reaction to a psychological state and that the tendency to have the physical reactions of TMS and its equivalents is universal and a normal component of everyday life.
It is essential to establish the fact that nothing will change symptomatically unless those two conditions are met. This follows from the fact that the purpose of symptoms is to divert attention from unconscious emotional phenomena. If patients denigrate the physical symptom and focus instead on things psychological, they have effectively undermined the unconscious brain's strategy. This is not mere theory - it has been demonstrated in thousands of patients." (The Divided Mind, page 136).
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Sarno-ize it!
Do you have a pain-prone personality?
http://www.bradyinstitute.com/aboutBook/painProne.asp |
Edited by - shawnsmith on 06/06/2007 05:23:38 |
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Dr. Sarno's two conditions for recovery
