Calm Your Body, Heal Your Mind: Transcend Pain, Anxiety, Anger, and Repetitive Unwanted Thoughts

Who among us has not experienced periods of high anxiety, persistent stress, obsessive thoughts, dark ruminations, or recurrent intrusive thoughts?The longer these repetitive unpleasant thoughts (RUTs) go untreated, the greater the intensity and number of associated painful symptoms, which can lead to more serious illness.According to Dr. Hanscom, the leading cause of chronic mental and physical disease is sustained exposure to real or perceived mental and physical threats.At the height of his career as a spine surgeon, Dr. Hanscom started to experience panic attacks along with more than seventeen symptoms of chronic mental and physical pain.This lasted for more than fifteen years. As he searched everywhere for solutions, by far the worst aspect of this experience for him as for the majority of patients he has treated for chronic pain was the mental distress.More than just a psychological state, this distress, Dr. Hanscom asserts, is a physiological reaction, or threat physiology. When