Everybody should read Sarno's book. It's a short read and even if it doesn't help your back pain it will probably alleviate something else. My partner and I both had pain that disappeared from reading Sarno. Back and wrist pain are gone.
This might sound snarky I apologize. How do you know that you pain disappeared from reading a book, when it could have been random coincidence?
Or to phrase it the other way: I have had some or the other sort of pain in my life, and these pains did, rather randomly leave. Would I have read a book or done some random ritual at this point in time, I might now misattribute the relief to the random ritual.
This sounds very odd - I read this book with skepticism as a PhD neuroscientist, and found much of it to be completely preposterous, and yet, somehow, it still helped me get back to running after being unable to run properly for 2.5 years. I didn't even have to fully believe the weirder aspects of his theories - the core, and more defensible parts were enough to give me benefits I didn't really expect, as a skeptic.
> “For a long time, we have thought that chronic pain is due primarily to problems in the body, and most treatments to date have targeted that,” Ashar says. “This treatment is based on the premise that the brain can generate pain in the absence of injury or after an injury has healed, and that people can unlearn that pain. Our study shows it works.”
My back was feeling worse and worse until I read the book though. My partner reported the same thing. It could be a coincidence but the book was short, contained a few good lessons, and costs me nothing to recall the information in the future.
