Spirit Body Healing: Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within - Softcover

Samuels M.D., Michael; Lane PH.D., Mary Rockwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471176745 ISBN 13: 9780471176749

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

"Dr. Mike Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring."
—Bernie Siegel, MD

A forefather in the field of mind-body medicine and one of the world's leading experts on healing through creative imagery explore the power of the spirit-body-mind connection. Filled with inspiring and beautifully written stories of people who have recovered from such life-threatening illnesses as cancer, heart disease, and severe depression, Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center. By showing readers how to deepen the spiritual dimension in their daily lives, the authors teach us how to help heal physical illness. The authors present a series of exercises, activities, and guided imagery visualizations that allow readers to use their mind's eye to unlock the medicine within.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

a revolutionary program designed to heal and inspire

"Healing is a creative process. These heartfelt stories and beautiful visualizations inspire the reader to see all life as a healing journey."
–David Simon, M.D., Medical Director of the Chopra Center for
Well Being and author of the Nautilus Award—winning Vital Energy
and Return to Wholeness

"Dr. Michael Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring."
–Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles

"Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every person's healing journey."
–Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for
Reversing Heart Disease

Based on a landmark seven-year study, Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center. Through visualizations, meditations, and exercises to increase your creativity, Dr. Michael Samuels and Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane teach you the eight steps of spiritual healing. In this book, you will discover how to get in touch with your own spirit as a path to healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illness. Filled with inspiring, beautifully written stories, Spirit Body Healing offers practical, proven methods that you and your loved ones can use to create immediate positive changes in your lives.

From the Inside Flap:

Spirit Body Healing is a revolutionary program designed to heal and inspire.

A pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Dr. Michael Samuels has joined forces with a major authority on creativity and healing, Mary Rockwood Lane, to explore the power of the spirit-mind-body connection. Based on a landmark seven-year university study, Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center. By showing us how to deepen the spiritual dimension in our daily lives while doing easy visualizations and meditations, Drs. Samuels and Lane teach us how to help heal physical, emotional, and spiritual illness.

With Spirit Body Healing, we go to a place of healing, beauty, and grace where we get in touch with our own spirits and the higher power that has meaning for each of us. Filled with inspiring, beautifully written stories, Spirit Body Healing reveals the eight steps of spiritual healing.

1. Go into Darkness
2. Go Elsewhere
3. Find Your Turning Point
4. Slip through the Veil
5. Know the Truth
6. Embody Your Spirit
7. Feel the Healing Energy
8. Experience Transcendence

Whatever your spiritual orientation, Spirit Body Healing offers practical, prescriptive methods that show us and our loved ones how to create immediate changes in our lives?now.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0471176745
• ISBN 13: 9780471176749
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272