My favorite Dr Sarno quoted Benjamin Franklin: “Nor is it of much importance to us to know the manner in which nature executes her laws; tis enough to know the laws themselves.”

I don’t agree with Benjamin Franklin. I have an inquisitive and investigative mind. Family, culture and environment saved me from being a heretic. I have to admit I am a repressed iconoclast. I have had a difficult time accepting things in faith although for many, many years I was too compliant to authority. Too many years of conformity led to my severe , clinical depression in the 90s. I suspect my many ailment sprang from suppressed emotions. This I learned recently from reviewing a book of Dr John Sarno.

Much of what I have written in my website is “only circumstantial evidence, but it is highly suggestive” (Paraphrased from Dr Sarno)

I wish somebody more qualified han I am would pick up the data and conduct formal research.

According to Dr Sarno: “Modern medicine has been primarily mechanical and tructural in orientation. The body is viewed as an exceedingly complex machine and illness is a malfunction in the machine brought about by infection,trauma, inherited defects, degeneration, and of course, cancer. At the same time medical science has had a love affair with the laboratory, believing that nothing is valid unless it can be demonstrated in that arena.”

I know too well from experience my doctors require laboratory tests before each visit. It makes me feel that going to the doctors without laboratory result would be useless!

“Unfortunately, some things are difficult to study in the laboratory. One of these is the mind and its organ the brain.”

“But since most physicians see their role only as treating the body, the psychological part of the problem  is neglected even though its the basic cause.”

After many years of searching. After so many ailments I have decided that the healthiest worldview for my sanity and spirituality is from “infinite Possibilities”.

“Our first responsibility in life is not to make this world a better place or to tend to those less fortunate, but to live up to our own high standards, to act with faith that our dreams are ‘meant to be and to maintain a tolerance and compassion for our divine journey’

This sounds selfish to traditional thinkers but this is what I need after years of searching and getting sick many times.

By being so responsible to ourselves the world will become a better place, and those around you will richly benefit, not just from the love you’d share but from the example you become.”

OF COURSE, I am not happy with the author’s pronoun shifts from “our” to “your”

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.

Now that my post-surgery pains are more than just tolerable, I can think straight. I wonder if it is the other way around!

Sardello, a fan of Rudolf Steiner wrote: “When there is a dysfunction of the organs, the life processes create an intense stimulation of the nerve processes, which is experienced as pain.”

After surgery my metabolism went awry. I had so much gas in my body. Although my left foot was taken off traction, I still felt pinned down to one side because my left foot and  leg were bandaged snugly. I barely heard one doctor say it was to prevent embolism. Obviously my nerve processes were over stimulated hence the pain.

According to Sardello: “Pain has to do with the nerve processes of the body. In normal life, when we are well, the nerve processes function in smooth relation with the life processes and we feel a vitality in the organs of the body…. Soul processes are also reflected in the organs of the body, and are thus intimately related to the life processes.”

Sardello continued: “Modern medicine looks at pain as a technical problem. The majority of physicians put forth the view that pain can be managed primarily through drugs. Others believe that some pain cannot be managed and offer death as a remedy kindly called doctor-assisted suicide. Neither group sees ant value in suffering itself and both views have a one-sided sense of pain, limiting it to the physical realm. With such an outlook, intense feeling becomes unbearable because the spirit is easily broken.”

I now see why doctors did not seem to believe my pains throughout my medical history not only this time when I broke my left hip.

“All physicians undergo a discipline early in training that shuts them off from their feelings in the presence of someone in pain. Confronted with a reality over which they have no control, they concentrate solely in the practical concerns of what can be done.”

“And God made us in his image, a seed containing the whole of Divinity so that, in our flowering, life could have a partner in its grand waltz. The celebration, would then be complete.”

“For humanity, to fulfill life’s own purpose, God gave the human soul what nothing else in all of nature possessed: free will”  (Tamura)

“For it is from love that we are from. And to love we must return. This is the journey of the sou we call life. To be who we are, to have all that is within us and to freely express our divine heritage – that is our purpose for living and the destination of our journey.” (Tamura)

Sadly “By the time we’re four or five, most of us begin to forget our divine heritage. Then we begin seeking anything that might ease the pain of separation, isolation, and loneliness. We try to fill the void we feel with someone or something in this world” (Tamura)

“We forget who we re, and the dynamic forces of materialization which are continuously manifesting the world, hypnotizes us.” (Tamura)

From “Self-Healing”, “No one else knows exactly what is most appropriate for you.”

“You are a spirit being having a human experience and are here to learn who you really are and what your purpose is.”

“All your answers are within you, but you must first choos one, grow it, and then learn to apply it to your life.” (tamura)