Back in the days when Body Dowsing was in its inception, I found a client’s boyfriend in her left foot several sessions in a row.

One day, I exclaimed, “Your boyfriend’s not in your left foot anymore!”

“Right,” she replied, “I kicked the son-of-a-bitch out, and good riddance!”

Usually, it works in reverse — the trauma begins AFTER a couple splits up.

I’ve found ex-spouses and ex-lovers in left and right feet as much as 50 years after they went their separate ways.

“A girl’s panties dropped in public. She had a tuna sandwich in her hand and was being handed the telephone by another girl when the traumatic incident occurred. She later developed an unreasonable hatred/fear of tuna sandwiches, telephones, and the other girl. Reason will not help in this situation.”

“In view of the widespread Freud bashing of recent years I may be courting disapproval to state that my concepts descend from Freud’s clinical observations and theories. But I know this only in retrospect, for I did not set out to prove Freud right. My developing ideas were the consequence of clinical observations; they were not based on preconceived notions about the mindbody connection.”

Dr. Sarno was a Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and the author of …

Mind Over Back Pain (1982)

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (1991)

The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (1998)

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (2006)