The Impact on the Body

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" all he is saying is that a distressed mind can cause the body to malfunction too. " Seems a safe bet, Kaivey. There is plenty of reading on this...the research on stress reactions comes to mind. 

It seems likely to me that our minds and bodies are not each, or together, an isolated entity. We create the mind or body with our conceptualizing of what is important, what is significant. Thus, we create the boundaries between them, and so it is no surprise (to me, anyway) if those boundaries are not an absolute separation.

I am a holistic kind of guy, which means I like to remember that each thing exists within the context created by every other thing. We judge this according to practical effects, but it is good to remember the essence for those days when something new and unexpected pops up. It's a defusion thing, I think: don't get too married to the neat things and boundaries I have mentally defined, because I may need to rearrange them daily!

DOn Monday, June 4, 2012, Kaivey wrote:

 ...As I am here, I would like to say that Dr Sarno completes my list of heroes and his theories on psychosomatics have really helped me:Professor Sarno's theories about psychosomatic illness are not well recieved either. He has studied the link between the state of mind and physical illnesses. When I posted about this before here on this site a lot of people got very angry, but Sarno is not saying some people's illnesses and are all in the mind, all he is saying is that a distressed mind can cause the body to malfunction too.  80% of the public don't accept his theories, and many doctors are skeptical, but I think Dr Sarno theories are full of hope. He's a nice guy.

An interview with Sarno: The Divided Mind.The Divided Mind - The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (5 of 5)

I won't be posting for a while week or so now, as I have overdone it a bit recently.Kv

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