How To Overcome Pain – Dr Sarno Philosophy

I have had fantastic results curing RSI. After months of frustration with the approach of modern Western medicine, I made a full recovery within weeks as well as fixing a number of other long term injuries.

It was through the philosophy of Dr Sarno; summary below for you!!

“The Divided Mind — the Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders”

Let me say at once that this is not a book that everyone is going to appreciate. Some will find it, almost literally, a lifesaver. Others will regard it as offensive, insulting, and a complete waste of time.

Somewhere along the line, Sarno became interested in patients with non trauma based pain. He noticed that many of these patients had pain which did not respond to standard medical treatments, and that their pain was in any case was not related to any demonstrable injury. He came to the conclusion that, in many instances, this pain had a psychological and emotional basis, and he found that, when such patients were educated in the true cause of their pain, a large proportion of them recovered their health.

HOW IT WORKS

De Sarno is not saying that pain is ‘all in the mind’. Far from it. It’s real pain. What Sarno argues, in essence, is that in cases where there is no trauma based injury to account for the pain, then there must be some other cause. His explanation in those cases in order to avoid dealing with powerful unconscious emotions, the unconscious diverts the conscious mind’s attention by causing physical pain in the body.  It does this by bringing a tension in the muscles by depriving them of oxygen. And Sarno’s major contribution to medicine is that he has found a way to treat such patients with a high degree of success.

RESISTANCE

Only 10 to 15 % of people with this condition are likely to accept a pyschosomatic diagnosis as in general patients themselves are quite amazingly resistant to any idea that there might be a link between their physical health problems and their past and present emotions. Patients, like most orthodox doctors and modern medicine in general, believe in the separation of mind and body.

The preference for most people is to rely on finding the right people and for many people there is, apparently, something deeply insulting and offensive about the idea that unconscious emotions are the source of their physical pain 

For more information and the full article, please click on the link below, and if you do have pain, keep your mind open!!!

The Divided Mind

About Mark Taylor….

How To Overcome Pain – Dr Sarno Philosophy

Living in the truth

By: Mark Taylor – Managing Director – Keys To Success Club

It has certainly been an interesting six months since my last post.  Sometimes in life you need to go backwards to move forwards.

The two things that I’ve learned in the last six months is the importance of staying in your truth and secondly the importance of letting go.

Staying in your truth

The key question here is how often do you really stay in your truth?  To be able to stay in your truth represents the greatest challenge as-in means not only do you have to really know who you are and what you stand for, but you also need to be prepared to show this to the world whilst of course respecting others in the process.  You also have to face some real insights to yourself that Are not always pretty.

Letting go

I’ve had to face some major challenges in the last six months with certain elements not going according to plan.  In some of the instances I’ve had to face up to full accountability which has been painful at times and a great way to depower the ego.

Letting go does not been becoming a vegetable.  It is more about keeping things in perspective and being much more flexible with the ever changing landscape that we find ourselves in.

 One of the end results of this journey for me is that I have to really connect well with my heart not with my mind.  Whilst it has had been one of the most difficult periods for me, as I have really let myself be totally exposed and vulnerable at times, I am full of optimism because I now feel I can release my full power through better connection with myself and others around me.  Will let you know how I get on!

Living in the truth

Keeping Life Balance

If you across any of the stuff I have been producing recently then you will know that it has been a pretty intense period for me over the last month or see.

I am fine with that as it is linked to my passion, therefore I have no issue with working hard.   What I have to be careful of though is making sure I keep my balance by also adding in quality time with friends, familly and me!

The first part of that is actually making the time, the second part is actually being present in the time you allocate.

I am doing okay and seem to be able to compartmentalise enough that I keep in a good place.

Having said that I can’t deny that I am looking foward to a break over Christmas…

Keeping Life Balance

Organising Social Events?

This is an interesting question.  Over the years I have oscillated between being the social lynchpin of a community to a social hermit.

I have noticed that there people that seem to organise people and events and others or seem to just to go them.

After a period of hermit, I decided I should go and organise an event and put a huge amount of time, effort and personl $ into a house party.

Did, I enjoy the event; well to be honest my main focus was on everyone else having a good time and the clean up (with no help) was pretty brutal and it is easy to think; why bother.  Also generally the feedback or apparent appreciation was relatively low even though I know people had a good time.

So, why bother? Well here are a few reasons to ponder:

• Are you a giver or a taker? 
• Is everyone chose not to bother, then nothing would ever happen?
• If you are organising an event, are you doing it for you or for other people?  It makes a difference.
• What do you do to build a strong community of friends around you?

I will show you a few photos of the event in another blog post as can’t be serious all the time!

So, what should my next social get together be;

Organising Social Events?

A good friend of mine inspired me to add a heap more rawness to my blogs; he is a big fan of “the truth” and feels that keeping it real and personal keeps it much more interesting and insightful…

So, from now on – ” no holds barred” warts and all.

The theme of today’s post is the importance of the people you spend time with and the impact of this on your personal wellbeing.

Try this.  Think carefully about who you want to  and how you want to be. Then look at all the people you spend time with at home, at work, when you are out socialising.  How many of them represent the direction you want to head in?

I constantly find this a struggle and because I wear so many hats, if I am honest, it would be less than 5%.

What is the problem with this?  Well, you are much less likely to be inspired, interested and motivated.  Even gone out and felt a bit flat or empty with the conversation?  Go into the work environment and get tired very quickly.

You are misaligned.  If you were aligned you would find a real sense of purpose and be happy in the moment you are in, not looking for the next, better moment!

It becomes particularly if you are “trapped” in a 9 to 5 job when you have mentally decided that you are destined for something different; your mind is somewhere else and you have a heart conflict which can be very tough.

What to do about it. 

1. The first is awareness.  Know what you are about, where you are heading.
2. Next actively build relationships with people who are on or ahead of you on a similar path
3. Finally, don’t be afraid to cull or back off from relationships that are misaligned; don’t fall for the trap of legacy reasons

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