The Andrew Weil Audio Collection (Self Healing) [Audio CD]

Andrew Weil (Author), Jon Kabat-Zinn (Author)

Book Description

Series: Self Healing | Publication Date: November 2001

Join bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil for these helpful housecalls on audio, and get the information you need to improve your health, safely and naturally. The Andrew Weil Audio Collection includes these two insightful sessions: Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing - A complete course of eight breathing exercises that Dr. Andrew Weil uses in his own life, and has prescribed to hundreds of patients over the past two decades. Useful for increasing your energy level, lowering blood pressure, improving circulation, and beating anxiety disorders. Meditation for Optimum Health, with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. - Dr. Weil and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn make it simple to enjoy the life-changing benefits of meditation. By learning to concentrate your power of attention through daily practice, you can harness the full potential of your mind to enrich every dimension of your daily experience. Step-by-step instructions cover four complete meditations.

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About the Author

Andrew Weil, one of America's best known advocates of alternative medicine and holistic healing, attended Harvard Medical School. He has worked for the National Institute of Mental Health and the Harvard Botanical Museum. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Associate Director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine, University of Arizona. Weil's books include Spontaneous Healing and Natural Health and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (November 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564559491
• ISBN-13: 978-1564559494
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #380,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meditation with your feet on the ground., April 15, 2003

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This review is from: The Andrew Weil Audio Collection (Self Healing) (Audio CD)

As a first step into meditation, I would strongly recommend listening to these tapes. The first 90 minutes is a clear explanation by first Weil, but mostly Jon Kabat Zinn, on the best way of understanding meditation, what it can do for your life and your health. Then follows a 45 minute guided meditation on watching the breath. I have purchased many books on Buddhism, meditation or yoga. Jon Kabat Zinn, who also wrote the brilliant book Full Catastrophe Living, is along with Thich Nhat Hahn, my favourite writer. Kabat Zinn is particularly good at explaining meditation as a way of working with problems, rather than wishing them away. The focus with Kabat Zinn is on accepting your experience, opening yourself up to it, seeing how pain is there, but it is not you, on living fully- mindfully not mindlessly. He is great for people who suffer pains, physical or emotional. I think this tape is a perfect introduction to meditation as a way of healing the heart.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent First Choice for Learning Breath Yoga, October 12, 2005

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Daniel Alan Bender "Grandpa Dan" (Honolulu Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Andrew Weil Audio Collection (Self Healing) (Audio CD)

If you have never done breath work before, Dr. Weil's CD: Breathing The Master Key to Self Healing is an excellent first choice that will provide a series of short exercises to improve your breathing technique, quiet your mind, and help you clear your daily tension and anxiety prior to deeper meditation. This initial preparation assumes that you know little about breath discipline (a form of Yoga), and takes you from the very beginning with a kindly voice and beautiful music. Dr. Weil's producer has taken care to provide the best quality sound, the best musicians, and even a high quality CD that will resist wear. (I use my CD every day on my bus commute to town.)

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful and Healing, February 26, 2006

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commeca (Portland OR, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Andrew Weil Audio Collection (Self Healing) (Audio CD)

This is my fourth purchase of Weil's CDs in the past 14 months. The first two were for my partner who was anticipating and then recovering from diverticulitis surgery. The second and third pairs were for friends enduring chemo and radiation after cancer surgery. The latest was for my oldest nephew who is dealing with a currently inoperable/untreatable intracranial hemorrage. My nephew, a hard-living Texas oil industry type, was the only one resistant to the concept. After actually trying the process, he's on his way to a 360. My partner and my friends didn't resist at all and put these meditational practices to good use immediately with very positive results. I might add that they, and I, continue to use the CDs for health maintenance.

I've been a fan of Dr. Weil's since his Eating Well for Optimum Health got me out of an unintentionally self-induced but serious health crisis. I'd recommend the CDs and the book as excellent purchases for anyone facing a well-being challenge, and as a particularly thoughtful gift for friends and family in need of support. They are five star contributions to the arts and crafts of living well and living WELL.