Free to Love, Free to Heal: Heal Your Body by Healing Your Emotions [Hardcover]

Dr. David Simon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 10, 2009

Free to Love, Free to Heal offers a proven path to authentic healing. Drawing upon the Eastern healing arts and modern science, Dr. Simon shows you how to identify and transform the core misunderstandings that inhibit your body's natural healing response. Here is a five-step process that has helped thousands release their emotional pain, find freedom from the past, and reclaim their health and happiness. Dr. Simon provides a systematic approach to identifying, mobilizing, and releasing the life-damaging beliefs and memories that contribute to chronic pain, anxiety, obesity, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, addictive behaviors, chronic fatigue, and a host of other emotional and physical health problems. If you are prepared to become an active partner in your own healing journey, the information within this book will help you heal your emotions and heal your body.

Editorial Reviews

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Dr. David Simon is a trailblazer of the new paradigm physiology, in which emotions are understood as the molecular basis of thought, health, and disease. In this groundbreaking book, David gives us the tools to heal our emotions and heal our lives. --Candace Pert, Ph.D., neuroscientist and author of Molecules of Emotion

In this beautiful book, my friend and colleague, Dr. David Simon, shares the essential truths about love and healing. With his guidance, you will be able to open your heart and heal your body. --Deepak Chopra

This brilliant and compelling book is balm for the wounded heart, offering you a genuine awakening to your own authentic nature. If you follow Dr. David Simon has a wise and loving approach, that leads you on an experience of unconditional self-acceptance and an expansion of healing and joy in every aspect of your life. He has been my most trusted teacher and I know you can be transformed under his guidance. --Debbie Ford, author of The Best Year of Your Life

About the Author

Dr. David Simon is a pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine. He studied shamanism as an anthropology student as well as meditation, yoga, and holistic healing. As a board-certified Neurologist, he brings a unique perspective to the relationship between mind, emotions, and health. He directs the Chopra Center's flagship programs and workshops.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 193 pages
• Publisher: Chopra Center Press (June 10, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981964001
• ISBN-13: 978-0981964003
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #54 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Alternative Medicine > Ayurveda

More About the Author

David Simon, M.D. is a world-renowned authority in the field of mind-body medicine. As a practicing physician, innovative researcher, and insightful teacher, David continues to expand his vision for an effective and compassionate healthcare system. More than three decades ago as an anthropology student exploring humanity's earliest communities and cultures, he was drawn to the understanding that the role of the doctor was much more than a disease technician; a true healer had to be a diagnostician, medicine man, psychotherapist, and priest - an expert navigator of the mind and spirit as well as the physical body.

Integrating ancient wisdom healing traditions with modern scientific principles, David has forged a model of health that integrates the multiple dimensions of a human being - environmental, physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. As a board-certified neurologist and expert in Ayurvedic medicine and other traditional healing arts, he brings a unique perspective to the relationship between mind, emotions, and health.



In 1996, David co-founded and assumed the role of medical director of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, where he continues to serve as the driving force in developing and leading the Center's programs and seminars in mind-body medicine, emotional healing, and spirituality. Recognized as a leading authority in the effective and appropriate use of mind-body medicine practices, his endeavors have resulted in the training of thousands of physicians, nurses, and health care providers. One of the first recipients of a National Institutes of Health grant to study mind-body medical approaches to improving health care, David continues to bring integrated mind-body medical programs to medical institutions, health centers, educational institutions, and health resorts throughout the world.

David is the popular author of many wellness books, including Return to Wholeness; The Wisdom of Healing; Vital Energy; The Ten Commitments; and Free to Love, Free to Heal. He has co-authored numerous other books with visionary Deepak Chopra, including The Chopra Center Herbal Guide; Grow Younger, Live Longer; Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives; and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga.

The books Vital Energy; The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga; and Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives each received a Nautilus Book Award. The Ten Commitments was the winner of the 2006 Foreword Award.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Life Changing June 18, 2009

By A. Bonomie

Format:Hardcover

I read this book in less than a week and the simple, yet, very professional approach from Dr. Simon, to make us understand that past negative experiences are extremely difficult to digest and will hunt us in our adulthood, has been an unveiled blessing. Dr. Simon does not stop there, he does provide us with very powerful tools to put a remedy to those emotional wounds and let go past negative experiences, and does guides us to the path of the healing of the heart, emotional freedom and, furthermore, the discovery that we deserve to be happy.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring ! June 15, 2009

By Theresa S.

Format:Hardcover

This is so beautifully written, you can almost feel the energy of healing come off the pages. At whatever point you are in the process of recovering your inner truth, the wisdom shared in this book will resonate and inspire. I especially loved that Dr. Simon kept language simple and accessible, and infused the book with light-hearted humour. A highly recommended companion for the most important journey of all: the discovery of self.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Buying! June 2, 2009

By lafparent

Format:Hardcover

This book really hit home with me. It makes you face the things that could be holding you back in life.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Reading but not helpful to me August 23, 2011

By Justine Cardello

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Certainly, David Simon's writing is beautiful and there was much insight in this book. But I gave it three stars because it fell short of taking into account that many of us do not have "one big incident" that we can relate to, and that we can peg as the cause of our emotional pain. And that was the case in all of the examples he gave and in the exercises. XX had parents who got divorces, XY moved when he was 10, XYZ lost her grandmother, ABC had a cheating husband, etc. Everyone could pin their pain to beginning with a single incident, and he asked for that in the exercises.

Well, for many of us, we don't have a single incident. We grew up in highly dysfunctional and/or abusive homes, where every day was an incident. It was an entire childhood of incidents and constant strife, which of course then spiraled out of control into other aspects of life. There was nothing in this book on how to take those memories, or resolve that pain, or how to heal from that kind of abuse. So in essence, this book was not very helpful, and I'm glad that I didn't take the seminar at the Chopra Center, which I was planning on doing.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended to all my friends (and enemies) June 25, 2009

By Bohemian Yogi

Format:Hardcover

If you are interested in becoming free from your emotional wounds and from your past conditioning, this book is a must! I recently attended a course at the Chopra Center that is based on this book and it changed my life. Dr. Simon has developed a straightforward method of identifying and releasing the burdens that keep you from fully experiencing the life of freedom, joy and fulfillment that you deserve.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Free to Love, Free to Heal - Heal your body by healing your emotions October 25, 2009

By Sharon Walls

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In Free to Love, Free to Heal, Dr. David Simon offers another tool to clear blocks in the psyche and the body to wholeness and wellness, and in the process can clear blocks to receiving the good you dream of. It is not a simple plan. There are exercises both physical (yoga movements to open the heart and breathing exercises) and emotional to move you along the way. It is an invitation to you to look deep inside at past wounds that continue to cause you pain in the present by informing your beliefs about what you deserve and who you are. This is an opportunity to bring this up from the subconscious mind to help you break the automatic cycle of belief that forms the basis for so many of our choices. Sometimes awareness is all that's needed to offer the chance to choose differently for a more enjoyable outcome.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book and essential reading July 20, 2009

By C. McMurray

Format:Hardcover

This beautiful book is one of the most inspirational pieces of sweet and compassionate writing that I have ever read in the field of mind-body medicine. Dr David Simon is an exceptional healer demonstrating in this, his latest, book, just why he is widely hailed as one of the most gifted healers of our generation. Where this book excels is in its ability to support, guide and nurture the reader, with immense authenticity and humility on the part of its author, through five key steps to emotional healing. His powerful words carry all of the authority of Dr Simon's medical background, but, crucially, too, they resound with the warmth, integrity and spiritual essence that are key in all of the author's work. I read this book cover to cover in one evening; I simply could not put it down, such was the profound impact it had deep in my soul, my heart, my body. The torrent of tears that I wept when I turned over the final page of this truly remarkable book heralded for me the opportunity to release deep-rooted emotional pain I had been carrying, and - I am now reading it for the third time - it is allowing me to rediscover the joy, bliss and peace that Dr Simon teaches us is within each and every one of us. Just beautiful. I believe there is not a human being alive who would not benefit from this book....
So I would encourage anyone seeking to find some peace in their lives, and looking to build on existing personal relationships, strengthening and deepening their connections with their own hearts and souls as well as those of loved ones, to read this book and wonder at the power in the fundamentally simple message it carries - to recognize, understand and appreciate the bliss that we can all enjoy in our relationships, we must first of all learn to love, honour and appreciate our own uniqueness and experiences.
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