Body Talk : No-Nonsense, Common-Sense, Sixth-Sense Solutions to Create Health and Healing [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Mona Lisa Schulz MD PhD (Author), Mona Schulz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2001

Body Talk will help you tune in to the inner guidance available to you by understanding the language through which your body talks to you daily.

Drawing from their extensive background as physicians and scientists with expertise in mind/body medicine, Drs. Schulz and Northrup designed Body Talk to be easy to understand, light-hearted, and humorous. The two doctors are also best friends who poke fun at each other and willingly share their personal experiences to illustrate their points in a down-to-earth, practical fashion. The end result is a short course on how to apply the science of the mind-body connection to achieve health and happiness in your own life, starting now.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

In this six-part set, doctors Schulz and Northrup use case studies to discuss how illnesses can be seen as a way in which the body is trying to deliver critical intuitive information to consciousness. They believe that although each person is born with certain genetic predispositions toward mental and physical characteristics, no one is doomed to suffer from certain illnesses. While some illness may be inevitable, these doctors feel that if one does not pay attention to the smaller ills, and the messages they are trying to deliver, they may manifest as progressively serious disorders. The authors discuss important issues in an informal style that, while knowledgeable, can be extremely frustrating for the listener. Often they lose the thread of what they are saying, interrupt and argue each other's points, focus on side issues, and deliver incomplete information. People who are already familiar with the mind/body continuum concept and Northrup and Schulz's other works will probably enjoy and learn from these tapes; however, for the price and for the beginner these are not recommended. Pick up some of Northrup's other audiotapes (e.g., Women's Bodies, Women's Choices) or Caroline Myss's Why People Don't Heal and How They Can, instead. Kathleen A. Sullivan, Phoenix P.L.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile

Dr. Northrup's book, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, empowered women to listen to their bodies about the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical balance in their lives. Dr. Schulz is a psychiatrist, neurologist, and medical intuitive--someone who senses through nontraditional means a person's overall state of health. These six tapes offer a spontaneous dialogue, loosely organized around case studies, that deals with common medical problems and their relationship to life choice patterns. The authors' banter is loose and spontaneous, like Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, on "Car Talk," but it's so endearing that you just enjoy them rather than expect them to stay organized. Listeners short of time will wish for a more compact, less chatty program, but I wouldn't change it. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Hay House (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561708526
• ISBN-13: 978-1561708529
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,749,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but......., June 3, 2001

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Moira Thomson "Moira" (Cathlamet, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Body Talk : No-Nonsense, Common-Sense, Sixth-Sense Solutions to Create Health and Healing (Audio Cassette)

There was so much in this tape series that is interesting that I hesitate to critise the work but here goes.... Dr. Schulz and Dr. Northrup are totally fun, because they are good friends and know each other very well. This is a plus and a minus, they have good information to impart, but sometimes the "conversational tone" of the tape series takes away from the content.

I wrote down the helpful info but they don't reiterate or restate necessary herbal medication info to treat various disorders. Actually this is a critism of the tape medium,itself; a book is better to look up information. Especially in a 6 tape series, where was the information? I listened to the series over a two day period. I found the information area's hard to recall. I felt the formate should have been tighter for info less chit chat and yet a part of me, ok, the gossipy part, loved that aspect of the tape.

I get Dr. Northrup's newsletter so I am familiar with her philosopys and positions on medical treatments. They try to look at people in a wholistic way. We are the sum of our parts, seen and unseen (genetic), plus they add the spiritual element of soul too. Making a really complete "primordial soup" of a human being. They focus on women, but have several men that they analyze their medical problems and look at their whole life to find the reason for their problem. Then they attempt to give advice, and the least intrusive medical solution, to solve or ease the medical problem.

I appreciate the attitude they both have toward medicine. Which is look at the whole person and his/her cosmology and DON'T try to over medicate or over operate to fix the problem. The less is more philosophy.

In conclusion, I loved the chattiness and personal touch of the two doctors, although it took away from the important information somewhat. I would have preferred a book so I could look up the specific herbs and treatments for different things. Another thing they could have done was put a short little series of "Depression can be treated with St. Johns Wort ---dose." Anxiety with Kava Kava and.... dosage such or something like that. Easy to find and at the end, just dealing with what they dealt with in the tape series.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Information, April 29, 2004

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Margaret (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Body Talk : No-Nonsense, Common-Sense, Sixth-Sense Solutions to Create Health and Healing (Audio Cassette)

Very valuable information for everyone and easy to listen to. These women have so much real information to share that is difficult to find elsewhere, but it is like listening to your smarter girlfriends having a conversation. I liked the combination of styles and the fact that the doctors shared some of their lives, including their own ups and downs. I can relate to them as opposed to the "experts" that are pushing a certain type diet or program (why do those experts always write another book a few years later with a new, different program?)
Great stuff.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy the 6 CD set instead retitled Intuitive Listening, June 13, 2007

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J. Whitford (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Body Talk : No-Nonsense, Common-Sense, Sixth-Sense Solutions to Create Health and Healing (Audio Cassette)

I have all of Dr. Northrup's DVDs, videotapes, CDs, books and cassettes. I love how she reminds us of the total mind body connection, rather than trying to get us to follow separate health changes for just our body. Her PBS specials and writings are humorous and informative. And her approach to healing ourselves is always balanced. She never asks you to cut out a food group entirely, she asks you to choose a more healthy approach. I like that she says treat white flour, white sugar items as a condiment and have them on a rare occasion.

She also says treat yourself and every meal you have as though you are dancing with someone you love. Now if we all did that, our meals would be a lot less stressful and so much more enjoyable.

If you want this on CD and much cheaper, please buy the 6 CD set Intuitive Listening. It is the same package.