Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body

Would you like to mobilize your body's natural abilities to reduce or eliminate dis-ease?  Understanding how your body and mind partner to create pain and certain health conditions is the first step.  Mind/Body Syndrome is the way your body expresses repressed emotions.  Here is how it works: when events arouse intense emotions like anger, rage, fear, and shame, we feel overwhelmed and bury the feelings.  With no other outlet, the repressed emotions manifest as physical symptoms.  Once this happens, the focus becomes diagnosing and treating the physical symptoms to the exclusion of the emotional triggers.  Medical intervention may work temporarily; but what usually happens is that the symptoms return or manifest in a different set of symptoms. 

People with Mind/Body Syndrome often exhibit personality traits such as stoicism, perfectionism, and self-criticism.  They may be people-pleasers or worry-warts.

Dr. John Sarno, author and ground-breaking medical pioneer in the field of mind/body syndrome says, "There are literally hundreds of disorders and illnesses that have been identified as purely psychosomatic.  Yet, amazingly, in spite of the nearly universal prevalence of such disorders, the practice of mind body medicine is almost totally unknown within today's medical community, and plays virtually no part in contemporary medical study and research". 

Common symptoms of Mind/Body Syndrome include: gastrointestinal problems, fibromylgia, sexual dysfunction, chronic fatigue, hypertension, dermatitis, chronic pain, headaches, depression, anxiety/panic disorder, insomnia, eating disorders and allergies.  If you suffer from any of these conditions or any other chronic, undiagnosed health condition, chances are you have Mind/Body Syndrome.  For more information about MBS, visit my website and order my CD Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body.