Calm Healing: Methods for a New Era of Medicine [Paperback]

Robert Bruce Newman (Author), Ruth L. Miller (Author)

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Publication Date: December 12, 2006

With disease statistics rising and health-care costs soaring, Calm Healing is a timely book indeed. Written in an accessible style, the book shows readers how to take an active role in their health by developing their innate skills for healing themselves and others. Part I presents a history of mind-body medicine, describing meditation methods across cultures and meditation research in the United States. Part II creates a new model of the human body based on a synthesis of disciplines, including quantum physics and energy medicine. Part III describes a wide range of healing methods including the healing practice of humor, cardio-awareness, progressive neuromuscular release, awareness-based energy breathing, transformative compassionate breathing, childbirth applications, and methods for near-death care. This section concludes with an analysis of healing the present by healing the past. Part IV focuses on self-healing and the worldwide transformation made possible by the effective action of groups engaged in mind-body healing.

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About the Author

A previously published author and university professor, Robert Newman, founded the World Health Foundation (now Medigrace), an organization dedicated to researching and developing new medical methods based on meditation science and advances in mind-body medicine. For twenty years, he apprenticed with Tibetan meditation doctors and masters.

Experienced in the areas of psychoneuroimmunology, metaphysics and various forms of meditation, Ruth L. Miller, PhD gives workshops and classes on social consciousness and the emerging new medical paradigm. She has co-founded several spiritual and service organizations in the state of Oregon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books; 1 edition (December 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556436262
• ISBN-13: 978-1556436260
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,339,105 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Part reference, part self-teaching manual, June 9, 2007

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This review is from: Calm Healing: Methods for a New Era of Medicine (Paperback)

Written by professor Robert Bruce Newman and workshop instructor Ruth L. Miller, Calm Healing: Methods of New Era Medicine is a guide to a variety of holistic and alternative medicine treatments, with especial focus upon the mind-body connection and its power to improve cancer care, heart care, Alzheimer's care, childbirth care, and other conditions. Chapters outline new models for the body and the healing process, cardio-awareness healing systems, transformative compassionate breathing, the healing benefits of humor, the benefits of meditation, and more. Part reference, part self-teaching manual, Calm Healing cannot replace a doctor's attention but is brimming with valuable recommendations and methodologies for harnessing one's own unconscious power to promote a higher quality of life.