Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine
Book Features
- Author: Marilyn Schlitz
- Language: English
- ISBN10: 0443068003
Book Overview
>>>This collection of essays on integral medicine, consciousness, and healing integrates mainstream medical information with latest developments in the emerging areas of frontier sciences and insights from option healing perspectives. It promotes a model of healing in which individual relationships, emotions, meaning, and belief systems are viewed as fundamental points of connection between body, thoughts, spirit, society, and nature. Integral medicine embraces the recognition that human beings possess emotional, spiritual, and relational dimensions that are vital in the diagnosis and remedy of illness and the cultivation of wellness.
Readers discover from the leaders in the emerging field of integral medicine and consciousness analysis, from the most nicely identified (Deepak Chopra), to the frontline policy makers (James Gordon-a single of the heads of the White Residence Commission on Conventional and Complementary and Choice Medicine). Readers also gain insights from health specialists who have skilled healing inside themselves and witnessed outstanding healing in their individuals. We hear from other medical pros (by means of the essays and the interviews on the accompanying DVD) who strategy medicine from an array of cultural perspectives, and can attest to this multicultural, interdisciplinary, and participatory healing program in action. Consciousness and Healing is made up of 47 essays in the book plus 9 bonus essays read aloud on the DVD. Essays are quick and in language suited to an audience of the two lay and skilled readers, with extensive references on the DVD to authentic scientific studies for these interested in additional exploration.
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