Widely Available May 1, 2012
Holy shit! This am on the treadmill my mind was blown about 40 times while listening to totally inspiring music and reading John Sarno’s book, Healing Back Pain. I pity those who do not open their minds regularly by reading, learning and thinking! That is the absolute most exciting part of life! Possibilities, science, health, healing, fitness and being your best possible self for optimal satisfaction and happiness while inhabiting this earthly plane is all anyone should ever strive for. The title Heal Your Back Pain is so benign and boring compared to the contents inside this book.
This book is enabling me to ascertain a huge realm of possibility as I correct small changes in Dr. Grayson’s book, and work with a spectacular public relations team to get a clear enough message out to seduce the skeptics regarding the origination of pain, disease, and discontent. Each author and professional make similar points that are astoundingly mesmerizing outlining how the mind and emotions play a major role in the manifestation of illness, pain, and chronic disorders. There are certain (many) diseases which have been linked to this unconscious emotional way of coping with life- and this unconscious coping method we have put in place as a result of our developmental environment, which is totally out of our control, and directly contributes to what problems manifest in our bodies.
If the disorder or illness or disease is the result of structural complications, then that is obviously the problem behind your discomfort and symptoms, however, most chronic issues are not structurally related, and are the result of repressed emotions finding their way out through pain manifestation in your body!
As a fellow thinker, I wonder why the unconscious mind delivers this punch to our bodies. What is the worst thing that can happen if we are able to express these emotions freely? These emotions are comprised of anxiety, fear, and anger typically. Is it that human beings aren’t comfortable confronting others in terms of their feelings? The spiritual realm would have us realize that we are in control of how we react to certain situations. If we choose to be angry, then that is a conscious choice made by us, and it shall fester in the mind eventually coming out in the body in some unfortunate way. So spirituality, health and the mind are all interconnected.
Our doctors are so sorely attached to treating our symptoms instead of the cause! I know integrative medicine will emerge as something quite important in the years to come, but if your doctor isn’t attending to the mind as well as the body, he isn’t helping you by giving you pain medication.
You need to examine your thoughts, your mind, and your emotions when you start to feel something other than GOOD. While most mind body books make excellent points, and John Sarno, MD is an unbelievable mind, they don’t get to the origin of the negative patterns of thought. One may recognize that they are choosing to be negative, or repeating behavior that isn’t productive, but they are not attending to the origination of the behavior or pattern.
This is where Dr. Grayson’s methods come in to play. He is the psychological component to your chronic pains, debilitating illness and unhappiness. We all know when we consciously do things that aren’t necessarily for the betterment of ourselves, but we don’t know why we keep doing it. We recognize it, we can label it, and we are aware of it, but we still continue to do it. Dr. Grayson has figured out how we came to operate this way, and how to stop it altogether. This takes effort, time and patience. Anything good takes time, nothing great comes easy. If you are a seeker of knowledge about yourself and want to attain a greater sense of power over your life, symptoms and radically reduce your chances of falling victim to an illness, unhappiness, depression, etc, you need to soul search. In Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind, Dr. Grayson provides very clear explanations about how to derive proper conclusions as why you keep making the same mistakes or falling off the wellness wagon.
He gives you insight about how you came to cope and operate the way you do, and how it could or could not set you up for failure in the health and wellness department. More importantly, he gives you tools that you can use daily to undo all the unconscious knee jerk reactions to life that keep you stuck in a circle of unproductivity, illness and unhappiness.
Where Sarno, stops, Grayson comes in. Sarno stops at recognition that the problem of your physical symptoms are emtionally related, and many people have healed themselves of physical symptoms with that knowledge alone, however, the symptoms re-emerge in different parts of your body, and then you can recognize that they are emotionally related, and then eradicate them again. But in order to completely heal your mindbody, you will need to remove these incidents that lodge themselves into your limbic system that created unproductive behavioral problems to begin with.
The tools you will learn should be implemented into your life ongoingly, and be used on a regular basis because we endure traumas through out our lives which affect the way we assert ourselves, trust in and operate in this world in the future. If we endure a painful breakup, and not clear it’s effects physically and emotionally, it will continue to be an energetically charged incident in our minds each time we should think about it, and we won’t be able to talk about it in a neutral manner- thus it will manifest in our lives as fear, and we will be less apt to trust again for too long a time, and rob ourselves of the enjoyment of close relationships.
On the other hand, if we use Dr. Grayson’s methods to take the energetic charge out of this traumatic experience, we can talk about it with less emotion and attachment and move on productively to have optimal health and experiences going forward IMMEDIATELY. We set ourselves up for less negative energetic emotions, and therefore less strain on our physical health, because we release the anger, fear and sadness, and therefore set ourselves up for peace of mind and less of a chance for heart related problems.
Ok, I am going to quote Dr. Sarno, from Healing Your Back Pain, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE IN A BOOK WITH THAT TITLE.. and this spoke to me directly as I know so many people operating this way, and it is sad that they don’t try to become better.
“To make things easy, we can refer to this multifaceted emotional mechanism as the personality. We all have one and we are all aware of some of its characteristics’ for example, we know if we’re a compulsive or perfectionistic. But there are important components of our personalities that we are unaware of, that are in the unconscious, that may have a profound effect on our lives. It seems clear that all human beings possess the same basic parts of the personality structure, though there may be considerable variation in the composition of these parts and the relative importance of each part in the life of the individual. For example, everyone has a conscience; in one person it may be strong as to virtually dominate his life; in the next so weak that his social behavior borders on the criminal.
A very important part of the unconscious personality is that which is childish, primitive and therefore, narcissistic. It is self-involved, to the exclusion of concern for the needs, desires and comforts of others. It is me oriented. The size (strength, influence) of this part varies from person to person. In some people it is large and they are, therefore, more liable to react and behave in self-indulgent or childish ways, though the latter may be hard to detect since people’s demeanor is always papered over by adult behavior. Many feelings and behaviors are no doubt left over from childhood. Children feel weak and vulnerable; they are dependent and they feel that dependency strongly; they don’t think much of themselves; they have a constant need for approval; they are very prone to anxiety and quick to anger. They have no patience. To a degree we all continue to generate some of those feelings unconsciously right into adulthood. What varies from person to person is how much.”
John Sarno, MD, Healing Your Back Pain, Page 134.
In closing, if you are interested in bringing your awareness to new heights about the origins of behavior and would love to change them for the better, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO NOT READ Dr. Henry Grayson’s New Book- Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind: Revolutionary Tools to Release All Barriers to Health, Healing and Happiness- It will be widely released May 1, 2012, but may be available on www.henrygrayson.com by end of March.
