“It is common for patients or physicians who understand the true cause and thus the appropriate treatment of psychosomatic disorders to want to tell their friends or acquaintances about their disorder and how to successfully treat it. They are often met with resistance. I can recall giving a talk about the mindbody connection of fibromyalgia to a group of 400 people with fibromyalgia, a particularly severe manifestation of TMS. These were people whose symptoms were disabling and consuming, but not one person was willing to see their problem as psychosomatic! Ironically, this makes perfect sense. If one acknowledges that his disorder is psychogenic, then he is acknowledging those painful unconscious emotions. He is shedding his defenses and, thus, his distractions. Consequently, he would begin to feel emotional pain! For many, this would be too much. It would be easier to have their physical pain than to begin to feel those emotions that have been repressed for good reason. Of course, this thought process is not conscious.”

“When the subject weeps at the bidding of the hypnotist, it is not the ego only, but the whole organism, that obeys. The obedience of crowds and armies to their demagogues and captains is, at times, almost equally strange. And so is their credulity.”

“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”

I tried the “Mellow Yellow” banana skins. Nothing!

“No drop of precious love is ever wasted.”