Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

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The one thing I haven't done yet is the WORK that she assigns at the end of the book, the diagnosis and prescription for health. This book is such a powerful tool for reexamining your life and your health, and how your mental health and stress responses will affect your health. How is it that some people do everything right and stay sick, while others seem to do nothing extraordinary yet fully recover? The author offers many suggestions about how you can improve your own health in some comprehensive appendices. By expanding your definition of health and healing, you can diagnose the real reason you're sick and suffering, as well as find new ways to improve your health and boost your vitality.

Despite the scientific grounding, she presents it in plain (even slangy) language and, in the end, helpfully includes a “how-to” create a personalized preventative health plan. Maybe more work needs to be carried out to assess whether we are seeing cause and effect here – or something else but the studies the author quotes from are at the very least persuasive. Here's a fascinating (and worthwhile) interview with Lissa Rankin on the Good Life Project: http://www.I like the way she talks about complementary medicine as using the very best scientific medical advances to complement the body's natural healing systems. Rankin makes it clear that miracles cannot be counted upon, but presents credible evidence that diligent efforts to be mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy can often translate into much better physical health as well. So whenever you read something like this, please make sure you have an open mind, and take all factors into consideration, and not be led down a path of tunnel mindedness.

There are simple, actionable plans for bettering your life, empowering your immune system, and find real ways to be healed. Not only does the author insist on the fact that we have control over our body, but she gives exercices and relaxation methods that can be used to decrease the stress response in our body. This book is intended to support the kind of intimacy, comfort, nourishment, and grace that happens when you make contact with the Source of all love that fuels your very existence. Mind Over Medicine explains how what's going on in your mind translates into sickness or health, and what to do to heal yourself. This was a really interesting book, which brought up a number of concepts and ideas regarding the body, healing, and stress that I hadn't thought about on a deep level before but that really rung true for me.Great examples of health nuts whose health was not OK because they were involved in bad relationships, or unsatisfying and stressful jobs, or something else that aggravated their health no matter what they did externally, illustrates the chapters. There are many instances where people have felt better at a church service, only to leave then feel like they did before. Her unique six-step program will help you uncover where things might be out of whack in your life—spiritually, creatively, environmentally, nutritionally, and in your professional and personal relationships—so that you can create a customized treatment plan aimed at bolstering these health-promoting pieces of your life. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I have had it on my want to read list since before it came out, but subconsciously was sabotaging the actual act of reading it.