Thinking Outside Of The Box

Doctor Gabrielle Duebendorfer with the second in her series. The Biology of Belief – The Influence of Emotions and Beliefs on Health Dr. Sarno describes in his book “The Divided Mind” how 80% of his patients with musculo-skeletal pain get complete relief by understanding and accepting the normal physiological process of the mind substituting physical pain or other symptoms to prevent stronger underlying emotions from emerging into consciousness. The mind subconsciously needs to suppress strong rage, deep sadness or other emotional pain as it perceives them as more threatening to survival than actual physical pain. Accepting this understanding of the mind’s tendency to use pain as a distraction for self-preservation as a normal physiological reaction plays a large role in the disappearance of pain in Dr. Sarno’s practice because it undermines the brain’s unconscious strategy. Now this might sound quite unbelievable but there is m