Your body isn’t the problem.

Most people I work with spend their days in fight-or-flight, carrying feelings they never dealt with. MND7 is a mindset coaching method that helps you see it, understand it, and bring your body back to rest.

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How it started

For years I believed that if something hurt, there had to be a structural reason. My back pain grew until it ran my life: scans, physical therapy, painkillers, and eventually surgery. None of it lasted.Then one day in Brooklyn, a stranger handed me a note. It said: read Healing Back Pain by Dr John Sarno. The moment I stopped fearing the pain and started looking at what was underneath it, my body began to heal.That was twenty years ago. Since then I’ve read, experimented and helped hundreds of people do the same.Stephane Rodriguez, founder of MND7

Two minds, one body

The part you’re aware of is small. Most of what drives your body sits below the surface. When the two don’t line up, the feelings you’ve pushed down don’t disappear. The body carries them instead.

Two states, one body

Your nervous system has two main settings. Here’s what your body does in each.

What the body does in fight-or-flight compared with rest-and-digest
	Fight-or-flight	Rest-and-digest
Breathing	Fast and shallow, high in the chest	Slow and deep, low in the belly
Heart	Racing	Steady
Muscles	Tense and braced	Soft and relaxed
Digestion	Put on hold	Working normally
Mind	On alert, scanning for danger	Calm and present
The body’s priority	Survive the moment	Repair and restore

Most people I work with spend their days on the left. MND7 teaches you how to move to the right, and stay there longer.

The four phases

Each phase builds on the last.

I
Awareness
Your body isn’t the problem. Together we find what it’s been trying to tell you: the event and the feeling you never fully dealt with.

II
Discovery
The cure is knowledge. You learn how the subconscious keeps you in fight-or-flight, even while your conscious mind says you’re fine.

III
Growth
You experiment with new tools: breathwork to bring your body back to rest-and-digest, a simple meditation routine, and a specific way of journaling.

IV
Mastery
You get better at it. Well-being is a skill, and with practice it stops being something you work on and becomes how you live.

Is this for you?

MND7 works for people who are open to it. If you’ve read Sarno, or you already sense that the pain is in your body but the cause isn’t, you’re in the right place. If you’re not ready yet, that’s fine too. The door stays open.

Stories

“Thank you - was the positive reinforcement I needed today”
E.P.“A practical, compassionate roadmap that actually makes sense in real life.”
G. J.

The book behind the method

Be the Cure
An Effective Roadmap to Self-Healing and Inner AlignmentThe four phases of MND7 in a 60-minute read, with a practice for each one that you can start today.

“This book gave me both understanding and actual tools.”
Jim G, verified Amazon review ★★★★★

Get the book

Also in French and Spanish, in ebook and print.

Where MND7 comes from

MND7 stands on the shoulders of people who saw the mind-body connection long before it was popular.The Mindbody Prescription, Dr John Sarno
Unlearn Your Pain, Dr Howard Schubiner
When the Body Says No, Dr Gabor Maté
The Way Out, Alan GordonDr Sarno - America’s most famous back pain doctor“I don’t have chronic back pain anymore”, The Journal of Pain, 2023The Disease of Being Human: How I was saved by Dr Sarno

Let’s talk

It starts with a conversation. Tell me a little about what you’re living with, and I’ll reply personally.

Email Stephane