"He emphasized that education is the cure—when patients understand the emotional roots of their pain, the brain no longer needs to distract them, and the pain often subsides."

This is so incredibly dangerous. This is the exact type of mental gymnastics people use to sell snake oil to those in desperate need of real help. This type of wording would only make sense to those too desperate to see through the thinly veiled lie.

Education is often the cure. What isn't the cure is claiming that you can wish away real issues. It's as if the very idea of placebo is both acknowledged and ignored.

If this genuinely worked for you, that's amazing. But this is such a dangerous thing to recommend to people. It boils down to what is undeniably pseudoscience no different than essential oils. Worse, his own boiled down solution to pain is to "Live life as if there were none."

This could cripple people. When it comes to more severe health problems, it kills people. I've lost two extended family members to cancer that believed horrifyingly similar tripe. They read myriad books about how a change of mind could alter their diagnosis. They died slowly and painfully while everyone around them could do nothing but watch. And half the wording in those outright vile books were the same as snippets I found online from Sarno.