The Divided Mind

The psyche, in a desperate attempt to prevent the explosion of those feelings into consciousness, was making the pain worse and worse.

pain and other symptoms is in psychosomatic disorders. It is there to prevent feelings from coming out.

Here is the program I want you to follow:
If you have not already done so, read the entire book you are using a bit at a time (Healing Back Pain or The Mind-body Prescription). After that, read the psychology or treatment chapter every day. Pay close attention to what you read, especially when you see things that remind you of yourself.
Set aside time every day, possibly fifteen minutes in the morning and thirty minutes in the evening, to review the material I am about to suggest.
Unconscious painful and threatening feelings are what necessitates the pain. They are inside you; you

a. Anger, hurt, emotional pain, and sadness generated in childhood will stay with you all your life because there is no such thing as time in the unconscious. Feelings experienced in the unconscious at any time in a person’s life, including childhood, are permanent. Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse will leave large amounts of pain and sadness

As put succinctly by a young woman patient years ago, “Denial of the syndrome is part of the syndrome.”

Failure of acceptance is an impediment to

Another crucial therapeutic element became clear early on as well: the person must not only understand the nature of the process but be able to fully accept it as well. Not faith, but acceptance of the idea is essential. Blind faith leads to a placebo cure, if any. By contrast, acceptance and acknowledgment produce permanent results. Failure

cure” for some patients because inability to accept the concepts of TMS is one of the psyche’s strategies for maintaining the process

Not only could physical pain be psychosomatic, but you could stop it by learning about it! Quite incredible, and to this day I find it hard to believe. It’s almost too good to be true

In order to get the brain to stop the psychosomatic process, they must:
Repudiate the physical-structural explanation for the pain and attribute it instead to the benign altered physiology, the physical-emotional basis of TMS
Recognize that the pain is a reaction to a psychological state and