Timeless Healing
by Herbert Benson
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TIMELESS HEALING THE POWER A life-changing work from the bestselling author of The Relaxation Response Herbert Benson, M.D. explores the true intersection and connections between objective sciences and the mystifying power of the human spirit. He tells how affirming beliefs, particularly belief in a higher power, makes a critical contribution to our physical health. In essence, Dr. Benson's messages is that our bodies are wired for God. A Harvard physician, Dr. Benson documents that when show more people call upon faith, they activate neurologic pathways for self-healing, and he shows how you, along with a caring physician or healer, can tap into your reservoir of "remembered wellness" to affect and cure 60 to 90 percent of medical complaints. Dr. Benson does not dismiss modern health care. Instead, he proposes practical ways in which patients and the medical community can make faith an integral part of it. Along Timeless Healing's journey of intellectual enlightenment, Dr. Benson creates a wonderful web of personal anecdotes, scientific research, social commentary, and spiritual wisdom that outlines a life-transforming and society-changing blueprint for healing. show lessTags
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Very well written book! Engaging, personable, and applicable to everyone, regardless of religious or secular belief. To oversimplify its message, I would say that the book offers additional proof that one's beliefs shape ones brain, mind, and physical health.
Believing, in particular, in some "Infinite Absolute" is particularly beneficial, whether that takes form in a particular religious or secular style.
Furthermore, the "relaxation response", which can be used to enhance one's experience of belief is not at all unlike "mindfulness meditation" or "Buddhist-style" meditation which have been shown in other books and studies to enhance one's mental and physical health.
When one is able to believe positively in one's health and ability to show more heal, with or without the help of an "Infinite Absolute", one is able to positively affect one's health. Conversely, negative beliefs affect the body negatively, even in some cases leading to death.
Given a choice, as we all are, which way (positively or negatively) would YOU believe, or not at all ? show less
Believing, in particular, in some "Infinite Absolute" is particularly beneficial, whether that takes form in a particular religious or secular style.
Furthermore, the "relaxation response", which can be used to enhance one's experience of belief is not at all unlike "mindfulness meditation" or "Buddhist-style" meditation which have been shown in other books and studies to enhance one's mental and physical health.
When one is able to believe positively in one's health and ability to show more heal, with or without the help of an "Infinite Absolute", one is able to positively affect one's health. Conversely, negative beliefs affect the body negatively, even in some cases leading to death.
Given a choice, as we all are, which way (positively or negatively) would YOU believe, or not at all ? show less
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 615.852 — Applied Science & Technology Medicine & health Pharmacology and therapeutics Specific therapies and kinds of therapies Miscellaneous therapies Faith cure; Christian science
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- RZ400 .B45 — Medicine Other systems of medicine Other systems of medicine Mental healing
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