At that point I could change the pain in my wrists into a feeling of anxiety in my chest.
I then bought the book (this step isn't nessacary) - "The Mind Body Experience), and now when I get pain I can sort of concentrate on the area it happens and it will dissapear - it also helps to think of things that might be stressing me at the time.
His theory is along the lines that the mind tries to distract you from stress by making you get pain at the site of old injuries, or RSI etc.
I'm sure that it doesn't work exactly like he says it does, however after about 10 years of RSI I can pretty much control it by just concentrating on the area in pain, whic is pretty cool.
Still, this will probably sound pretty odd.. note: I don't ascribe to any other alternative medicines and am pretty sceptical in general.
This cured me of 3 years of horrible RSI pain. I did go to Doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors and acupuncturists and had anti-inflammatory creams, you name it. Nothing worked for more than a couple days... and this was a last resort. I wish I would have tried it sooner, but I doubt I would have given it a shot if I wasn't desperate.
Then buy the book and read it. It'll cost you less than an MS Natural Keyboard, not to mention all the other crap (wrist braces, heating pads, etc etc).
I read about Sarno on HN a while back and can vouch for its weirdness but also success. Like you, I didn't read the book, just read some of his core theories on the web. All I did was stop thinking about the pain and it actually worked. It's like a placebo of some sort.
I saw some youtube videos of Dr Sarno [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sarno] and read some testimonials on his technique.
At that point I could change the pain in my wrists into a feeling of anxiety in my chest.
I then bought the book (this step isn't nessacary) - "The Mind Body Experience), and now when I get pain I can sort of concentrate on the area it happens and it will dissapear - it also helps to think of things that might be stressing me at the time.
His theory is along the lines that the mind tries to distract you from stress by making you get pain at the site of old injuries, or RSI etc.
I'm sure that it doesn't work exactly like he says it does, however after about 10 years of RSI I can pretty much control it by just concentrating on the area in pain, whic is pretty cool.
Still, this will probably sound pretty odd.. note: I don't ascribe to any other alternative medicines and am pretty sceptical in general.