The nationally bestselling author of "Healing Words" now explores and defines his third era of healing--beyond physical healing and mind-body healing--and shows how it can be used to positively affect our health and our lives.
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The nationally bestselling author of "Healing Words" now explores and defines his third era of healing--beyond physical healing and mind-body healing--and shows how it can be used to positively affect our health and our lives.
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Very Good. Great book! Very mild shelf wear on dustjacket, library stamps, no writing or markings in text. Amazon: Cue the theme song to the Twilight Zone: Research shows your plants won't grow as well when you're depressed as when you're happy. Praying for someone else will improve your own health, too. The growth of E. coli bacteria is inhibited when a group of people merely think about stopping the growth. And qi gong practitioners in San Francisco can kill cancer cells in other peoples' bodies--by willing the cells to die. These ideas surely sound ludicrous, but these and other similarly mindboggling studies have been commissioned and replicated by researchers at Harvard, Duke, McGill, and other esteemed universities. Larry Dossey is known as the father of mind-body medicine and perhaps best known for his advocacy of the role of prayer in healing in 1995's bestselling Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine. He admits that working on such seemingly impossible projects a few years ago would have ruined a researcher's career with ""ATF, "" or ""the anti-tenure factor."" But things are changing. He wrote Reinventing Medicine to present proof that ""the mind can literally change the external world"" and how this ""nonlocal mind"" will change health care in the future. His argument for the existence of this nonlocal mind is as convincing as it is eloquently conveyed. Doubters, he says, merely need to examine their own dreams for proof this is true. When was the last time you had a conversation or found yourself in a situation you dreamed about the night before? Studies from as early as the 1960s ""strongly suggest that dreams are an avenue of nonlocal communication between separate, distant persons."" Dossey's support of the nonlocal mind is sure to draw pooh-poohs from cynics, including M.D. s, but, he warns, health-care workers are bound to experience this force firsthand: ""Doctors can experience their patients' symptoms nonlocally, and this can be unpleasant."" He cites the example of psychiatrist Mona Lisa Shulz, a medical intuitive, who ""began to grow increasingly uncomfortable, feeling hot and flushed, "" while speaking over the phone with a feverish patient. Dossey says this telesomatic event, extreme empathy, or whatever you want to call it, is dangerous, but that ""empathic balance"" is something that will be taught in medical schools in the future to ensure accurate diagnoses of ill patients. Dossey was one of the first vanguards of mind-body medicine, which is basically accepted as fact today; he's again presenting the future of medicine, as otherworldly as it seems. --Erica Jorgensen From Publishers Weekly: Always in the vanguard, physician Dossey (Prayer Is Good Medicine, etc. ) makes a fascinating case for the next revolution in medicine beyond the current era of mind-body healing. Rather than signaling an entirely new direction, he defines a larger, more humane vision based on incorporating advances in integrative medicine. His brief, persuasive work is bound to attract attention from the general public and medical professionals alike, especially in light of his pioneering work on the connection between prayer and healing. Rendering his argument in simple language and illustrating it with many individual stories as well as scientific studies, Dossey contends that we are entering an era of the ""non-local mind""Athat consciousness can accomplish healing outside the confines of one's brain and body, influencing distant events, people and circumstances. He does not discount the efficacy of medical intervention so much as he anticipates an enlightened model of partnership between patient and healer. While some readers may resist the idea of prayer influencing such events as cell development, many will accept the more familiar examples involving animal behavior (e.g., pets traveling thousands of miles to reunite with their owners). Addressing such major conduits of nonlocal healing as dreams, prayer and being in ""the zone, "" Dossey offers moving examples of human...
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