1. WHAT DR. SARNO
TELLS HIS TMS PATIENTS:
Resume physical activity. It won’t hurt you.
Talk to your brain: tell it you won’t take it anymore.
Stop all physical treatments for your back—they may be
blocking your recovery.
DON’T:
Repress your anger or emotions—they can give you a pain
in the back.
Think of yourself as being injured. Psychological
conditioning contributes to ongoing back pain.
Be intimidated by back pain. You have the power to
overcome it.
HEALING BACK PAIN
Using the actual case histories of his own patients, Dr. John Sarno
shows why tension and unexpressed emotions—particularly
anger—cause chronic back pain, and how awareness and
understanding are the first steps to doing something about it.
