Book: The Mindbody Prescription

April 17, 2009 on 10:22 am | In Books, Health & Fitness, Personal | 1 Comment

At the suggestion of one of my online friends/fans, Forkmantis, I just finished reading The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain. This was a very insightful read, founded on the principle that the mind and body are one, and therefore physical manifestations of pain can controlled, and eliminated, by the brain. The theory is simply that we suppress stress and anger and the brain knows this, and inflicts pain on its own body as an outlet.

This, combined with a brief discussion with my physical therapist yesterday, in which she referenced an “intuitive” who traced many recent incidents of lower back pain to financial stress. (Can you say “April 15?”) As it happens, my own onset of back pain hit right around the time when I found out that I was scheduled to appear in court relating to my divorce, where the issue was temporary alimony. Coincidence? I think not.

Anyway, I am working on identifying my internal anger and stress (some of which is blatantly obvious, some I’ll have to dig deeper for) to see if this can help reduce or remove some of these recurring pains I suffer from. Here’s hoping it works!

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Believe it or not, I ordered that book online, then got impatient and read it at Barnes and Noble the next day (this was 7 or 8 years ago). I felt much better when I left B&N than when I walked in. The biggest thing I got out of that book is that I was not “broken”, as I’d believed for so long. For the most part, I’d visualize doing heavy deadlifting, and imagine blood flowing through my back muscles delivering oxygen. I quit taking Aleve the day I read the book, and haven’t taken any since.

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