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Think Away Your Pain

By: David Schechter M.D.
Narrated by: David Schechter M.D.
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Think Away Your Pain presents a revolutionary approach to relieve suffering and eliminate chronic pain. In this user-friendly clearly written book, you will learn how chronic pain becomes a condition of the brain as much as the body. Think Away Your Pain shows you how to use the immense power of your thoughts and beliefs to literally change the neural circuitry of your brain. Dr. Schechter combines scientific evidence with clinical experience and psychological insight to teach a systematic method to control and eliminate pain with the mind. With 25 years in the field, Dr. Schechter has cured thousands of patients with this mind/brain based program. This book teaches the TMS healing method where changing thought, expressing feelings, and understanding can and do change the neural circuitry of the brain and eliminate the pain. Dr. Schechter discusses research supporting this approach including research by the author. Some will find this a more contemporary version of John Sarno's books on this subject. Others will find this a fascinating interface between medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. For the chronic pain sufferer limited in function, distressed by suffering and hopeless about the future, this book offers realistic hope.

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©2014 David Schechter, M.D. (P)2016 David Schechter, M.D. Pain Management Physical Illness & Disease Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Medicine Health Mental Health Human Brain Pain Medicine
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This book has helped me solidify and extend John Sarno's findings and methods; perhaps not 'extend' as such, but delivered through someone else's eyes and pov, as I say, this book has helped me understand the concept more thoroughly and progress in my recovery from chronic pain — which brought my life to a halt for the last 3+ years. Although not a definitive text on the concept / condition, I recommend this as part of the solution for chronic pain sufferers to educate yourself about TMS (Sarno's catch-all name for many conditions resulting in localised, migrating or even widespread physical pain, tension and muscle weakness — from back pain to RSI to fibromyalgia and others. TMS-related pain is created by our brain through repressed emotional trauma, and is often triggered by stressful life events, especially in those who have experienced physical or psychological trauma. TMS is short for Tension Myoneural Syndrome (formerly Tension Myositis Syndrome). The clincher with TMS, is that education is key and reframing your experience through the lens of that education lets you pave your own pathway out of chronic pain. Unfortunately paving is hard work, but exactly like real paving, the rnd result is rewarding and the work quickly forgotten. If this sounds like voodoo to you I urge you to take a deeper look, as the ideas and suggestions are really quite simple, rational and sound — and the authors are trained, legitimate medical doctors who rightly stress that you must rule out mechanical and/or serious disease first.

I have tried many, many things for Fibromyalgia and the concept of TMS and putting in the work around that has been the only thing to help bring me some relief — and for some context, I was in so much pain prior to finding Sarno's work, I had inquired about assisted suicide.

I give this book 4 stars as I agree with other reviewers, that the narration (read by the author) is poor — sentences pause in unnatural places so you need to mentally reprocess their meaning then you fall behind; words are at times even mispronounced; there is also audible background noise and at one point, it sounds like David is eating! Haha this actually made me laugh... but honestly, it is at the least distracting and does make it much harder work to digest the content. The book is slso read out exactly as it is written, so you have no reference to diagrams mentioned etc; it also states in the book you can download David's mindbody workbook from his website, however I could not find this myself and while you can purchase it separately, really, if the book states you can and you have purchased this book.. well the author should make it available (I signed up for a scribd trial and downloaded it for free).

Due to these production foibles, I couldn't help my brain questioning the validity and intelligence of the content every time one happened (and it happened quite a bit), due to the author being the person who was reading it so poorly. However, I already had validated these concepts through Sarno's work, so I advise you to cast aside your judgement in regards to this minor issue (compared to living with chronic pain, poor narration really pales right?). There is however a 'realness' about David's narration, style which on the other hand is welcome and I eventually became accustomed to his jarring delivery.

As TMS is a hard-sell, I would think it is in the author's interest to have this re-recorded by a professional person with a natural-sounding, relaxed voice — let's face it, it can also be annoying when an audiobook is being read by Lord Farquaad, Buzz Lightyear or The Queen.

If you suffer from chronic pain and you have tried traditional medical methods including scans, pharma, physical and psychological therapies — including alternative therapies — and are still at a loss as to the cause, buy this book in some form or another and check out John Sarno's books too.

Highly recommended for chronic pain sufferers

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My mum read this book a few years ago and it cured her RSI. I’ve been suffering from chronic migraine for almost a year, so I thought I would give it a read.

I have already tried pharmaceuticals, chiropractic, physio and acupuncture, with only temporary relief. When I started reading this book my pain was absolutely debilitating. 2 days later my pain had substantially decreased and I was able to resume most daily activities. I am very excited to work on this method for the next few weeks. It has given me real hope or regaining a normal life.

A must read for sufferers of chronic pain

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