Dr. John Sarno's Top 10 Healing Discoveries by Steven Ray Ozanich

Author:Steven Ray Ozanich
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780996586610
Publisher: Silver Cord Records, Inc.
Published: 2016-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

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#4

Knowledge Therapy

The most important factor in recovery is that the person must be made aware of what is going on; in other words, that the information provided is the ‘penicillin’ for this disorder … I was mystified by the obvious importance of informing the patient what was going on. This was knowledge therapy …

John Sarno, MD, Healing Back Pain, p. 71

Dr. Sarno noticed—early on—that when he began explaining to his patients that their body was okay, and that their brain was fooling them with their pain to hide unconscious processes, some of them began to heal. A small fortunate few healed immediately, and the majority began the first steps on their personal healing journey. The knowledge of TMS began to transform their suffering into a much less dangerous prospect, and it began to set them free.

Much of the “knowledge healing mechanism” has to do with rendering the rage less threatening, behind the symptom. The unfelt rage behind pain is dangerous to the Self’s desired image, so it’s repressed at the behest of ego, and unrecognized within the individual’s conscious self. The source of the rage may be eternally unknown; but somehow, the awareness of its existence through the emotional barometer—and in its purpose—renders it less dangerous to ego. Reduced threat means reduced pain.

The threat to ego comes from the fear of being and appearing out of control. As with phobias, confronting fear helps to dilute its authority. Deeper awareness brings a sense of order to the irrationality of the fear, similar to exposure therapy in phobias (reintegrating repressed emotions with current awareness), and anger is then tamed as a by-product. When we feel our body is broken, fear rises dramatically, and anger/rage is the social reaction to that fear.

Another reason that knowledge is therapeutic is that there’s finally a reason for the amorphous suffering. After the person had spent years in doctors’ offices, and perhaps tens of thousands of dollars with various health-practitioners, now finally—there’s an answer that solves the mystery. The body is not broken! Whew—a great relief ... but with a new caveat! With this new knowledge, surrendering to truth suddenly means surrendering to yourself—to whom you are, and not to a broken body. This surrender is perceived by the deeper self to be even more painful.

It’s also a pervasive reason that many people don’t want to believe in TMS. It’s much easier to surrender to a flawed body, than it is to see ourselves as we truly are, and to accept a life that has not gone as planned. To admit unhappiness is threatening to ego. It’s less frightening (from ego’s viewpoint) to believe that the body is broken, than to admit to a broken life—thus, the great TMS controversy.

Through repression, ego casts the unwanted into the body, to be stored. And so, this top-10 list of Dr. Sarno discoveries could easily be a top-11 list, if you consider that he identified a repressive tension personality (now called the Type-T). Many Type-Ts mistake their own personality for a Type-A, but the two are quite different.

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