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Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert - a neuroscientist whose extraordinary career began with her 1972 discovery of the opiate receptor - provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists...
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Explores the relationship between emotions, attitudes, and personality traits to physical health and offers advice on how to develop a more intuitive spirit and recognize problems before they can manifest as physical ailments
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Consumer Reports Books
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
"Practical, intellectually stimulating, and superbly researched, Mind/Body Medicine gives you the most up-to-date information on what is now known about the vital role of the mind in health. Based on the latest findings from America's leading scientific institutions, and written by physicians, psychologists, and medical researchers with extensive clinical experience, Mind/Body Medicine discusses the connection between stress and disease; examines...
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W.H. Freeman
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling scientific detective story, The Balance Within tells how researchers finally uncovered the elusive mind-body connection and what it means for our health. In this book, Dr. Esther Sternberg, whose discoveries were pivotal in helping to solve this mystery, provides firsthand accounts of the breakthrough experiments that revealed the physical mechanisms - the nerves, cells, and hormones - used by the brain and immune system to communicate...
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Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"The incidence of chronic pain has taken on epidemic proportions. The common response of traditional medicine has been to prescribe opioid painkillers, which can lead to overdose and addiction. Over the past ten years, Dr. Peter Przekop has developed a revolutionary alternative program to manage pain that goes well beyond the short-term relief of prescription painkillers. Przekop discovered that pain can become chronic, not just because of the trauma...
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Sentient Publications
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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This classic book, long out of print in English, challenges accepted ideas of illness by suggesting it’s not an enemy to be fought. When you see your symptoms as bodily expressions of psychological or spiritual conflicts, you can use them as guides to inner work. You can respond to troubles with infection, allergies, respiration, digestion, skin, nervous system, heart and circulation, sexuality and pregnancy, even accidents, with practical actions...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to disease, who beats the odds - and why? When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that "miraculous" recoveries are flukes, and as a result they don't study those cases or take them into account when treating patients. Enter Dr. Jeff Rediger, who has spent over 15 years studying spontaneous healing, pioneering the use of scientific tools to investigate recoveries from incurable illnesses. Dr. Rediger's...
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Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"For many people, illness can serve vital emotional and psychological needs. It can become an effective way of getting the attention they might otherwise not receive; it can ensure that they remain in a particular lifestyle or behavior pattern and avoid facing the chaos of change. Yet, as Dr. Myss points out, illness can also guide us onto a path of insight and learning upon which we would otherwise never have set foot."--BOOK JACKET. "Why People...
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Using the techniques of imagery, total body wellness can be achieved without prescriptive medicine. With this comprehensive, user-friendly primer, readers will learn just what guided sensory imagery is and how to create powerful images in the mind that direct the body to heal--both emotionally and physically.
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Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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"Reinventing Medicine is nothing less than a vision of the future of the practice of medicine. In his book, Dr. Dossey provides the scientific and medical proof that the spiritual dimension works in healing. Citing the work of scientists at such well-known institutions as Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford, he conclusively demonstrates that spiritual tools such as intercessory prayer, dreams, coincidence, and intuition have measurable, powerful, and...