Today I will write about pain again but from the perspective of Dr Sarno. I like Dr Sarno’s description of pain as: “all the tissues suffer from oxygen deprivation, so that one may experience both muscular and nerve pain.”

From my experience, with Jean Netario Cruz’ magnesium and especially when I spray several drops of magnesium into my drinking water various types of pains on different occasions disappear.

I lke Dr Sarno’s explanation of why in spite of advances in science I, like countless others, still experience various types of pains.

“Traditional medical diagnoses focus on the machine, the body, while the real problem seems to relate to what makes the machine work – the mind… physical pain but that acute discomfort is induced by psychological phenomena rather than structural abnormalities or muscular deficiency.”

Dr Sarno refers heavily to tension : “The word tension is used here to refer to emotions that are generated in the unconscious mind and that , to a large extent remain there.”

“The kinds of feelings referred to are anxiety, anger and low self-esteem (feelings of inferiority). They are repressed because the mind doesn’t want us to experience them, nor does it want them to be seen by the outside world. It is likely that if given a choice, most of us would decide to deal with them, but as the human mind is presently constituted, they are immediately and automatically repressed – one has no choice.”

He continued: “Everything medical is influenced in some way by the emotion. I believe that all medical studies are flawed if they do not consider the emotional factor.”

I truly like how Dr Sarno understands the medical practitioners: “Most contemporary medical investigators cannot accept such an explanation (pain being a signal of oxygen deprivation) since it violates their basic assumption that the etiologic explanation for physical abnormalities must be in the body itself. (not in the mind). They cannot conceive of the idea that something like back pain might originate in the mind.”

I wish more physicians would pay attention to the studies of Dr Sarno. After all science requires that all new ideas be validated by experience and replication.