The MindBody Workbook. Volume Two: Thirty Days of Guided Journaling and Affirmations for Chronic Pain, Stress, and Other Disorders

This Workbook (Volume Two) offers the reader a 30-day structured journal to identify, express, and process psychological issues that may be causing back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, tension headaches, TMJ, and other physical disorders. This Workbook also features sections on self-compassion, self-esteem, and gratitude that have proven utility in helping you feel better and heal. Daily affirmations are integrated to keep the reader in the optimal mindset for eliminating pain. The author, David Schechter, M.D., a physician, and former student of Dr. John Sarno, has previously written a Workbook that guides the reader through a process of insight and awareness to harness the healing power of the mind-body connection. His co-author, clinical psychologist Justin Barker, Psy.D. has helped him create a more psychologically powerful Volume Two. With their combined 40 years of medical and clinical experience, they have learned the most important questions to reflect on and write about to get at the roots of pain and other physical symptoms in the mind/brain. The MindBody Workbook Volume Two is designed to be used before or after completing the original MindBody Workbook. It can be utilized completely independently, or alongside Dr. Schechter's book Think Away Your Pain or with the online course The MindBody Healing Journey also co-created with Dr. Barker. Journaling has been shown through decades of research and clinical experience to be one of the most clinically effective and cost-effective methods to alleviating conditions in which the mind/brain/emotions play a role. As noted above, this includes chronic pain and other disorders which are 'functional' in nature, or more related to the brain, neural pathways, and emotions than they are to biochemical or structural disorders in the body or organ systems. If ordering the ebook, be prepared to answer the questions in a notebook, computer or tablet, or through voice recording. Research has shown the effectiveness of journaling is based upon doing something with the answers (writing, recording), more so than just thinking about the answers (or reading the questions). The printed Workbook provides room for you to answer questions in the book. You may also write additionally in an outside journal or notebook if desired.