This book's author, an experienced meditation teacher, describes how meditation can be used to complement standard medical procedures, improving physical health and helping to eliminate stress-related problems. She introduces readers to fundamental principles of self-healing, awareness-building, and creative imagery as techniques for reducing physi-cal pain and emotional distress. Techniques she discusses in detail include body postures, hand positions, breath control, and the Chakra system, among others. She advises on spe-cific meditation solutions to relieve back pain, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, low-grade fevers, colds and flu, respiratory disorders, and digestive problems. She also recommends meditation for emotional problems including anger management, depression, and build-ing self-esteem. Meditation is explained as being useful to enhance life's good and nor-mal aspects, such as the sex and creativity drives. Filled with practical advice and sugges-tions, The Meditation Doctor is a fine resource book for all who are interested in explor-ing the many benefits of meditation therapy.
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Basic breath and mindfulness techniques introduce you to the fundamentals of meditation
Guided techniques will help you tap into your body's natural healing abilities
An easy-to-use index allows lets you look up common ailments and find therapeutic techniques to help alleviate symptoms
Today more than ever, physicians and psychiatrists are prescribing relaxation and meditation techniques as alternative treatments . Many individuals are also seeking different avenues to relieve stress and improve their general health.
The Meditation Doctor combines Eastern and Western meditative practices and encourages you to participate in a journey of exploration and restoration. It introduces self-healing, awareness building and creative imagery techniques to promote well being. This book is an excellent resource for relieving physical pain and psychological anxiety through the power of meditation.
Basic breath and mindfulness techniques introduce you to the fundamentals of meditation
Guided techniques will help you tap into your body's natural healing abilities
An easy-to-use index allows lets you look up common ailments and find therapeutic techniques to help alleviate symptoms
Today more than ever, physicians and psychiatrists are prescribing relaxation and meditation techniques as alternative treatments . Many individuals are also seeking different avenues to relieve stress and improve their general health.
The Meditation Doctor combines Eastern and Western meditative practices and encourages you to participate in a journey of exploration and restoration. It introduces self-healing, awareness building and creative imagery techniques to promote well being. This book is an excellent resource for relieving physical pain and psychological anxiety through the power of meditation.
About the Author
Martina Glasscock Barnes, MS is a licensed professional counsellor. She is the author of Meditation for the Western Mind and numerous audio products on meditation. Formerly the head meditation teacher at the Berkeley Psychic Institute in Berkeley, California, Martina went on to study at the acclaimed Sancta Sophia mystery school. Her teachings draw from the rich traditions of Eastern and Western mysticism to convey an approach that is both practical and profound. She lives and works as a psychotherapist in private practice and with a Hospice in Asheville, North Carolina.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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The Meditation Doctor is INCREDIBLE,
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This review is from: The Meditation Doctor: A Practical Approach to Healing Common Ailments Through Meditation (Paperback)
The meditation doctor is a beautifully illustrated and intellegently written book on meditation and healing. It is easy to understand and interesting to read. The introduction and first few chapters do an excellent job of laying down the framework for the rest of the book. What I love about this book is that there are so many meditations to choose from and that they are simple to follow. I have chosen a few to practice with and each time I do one of the meditations, it becomes more and more "mine." I love to do the yogic and movement meditations in the morning. I feel like I am doing more than just stretching. The descriptions of the stretches that the book gives makes them meaningful. If you are new to meditation, this book is a great place to begin, especially if you do not know where to begin. If you are a practiced meditator, this book is a great way to inspire new types of meditations and different experiences in your meditations. This book is not just for those who need a "meditation doctor." It is for all of us who are conciously choosing to be well. Thank you Martina Glasscock Barnes for the beauty with which you have written this book.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Meditation for Mind and Body,
This review is from: The Meditation Doctor: A Practical Approach to Healing Common Ailments Through Meditation (Paperback)
Of all the meditation books I have consulted, The Meditation Doctor is the most beautifully designed and the most accessible while offering resources to those readers who have varying degrees of experience with meditation. I have given this book to many friends and they regularly make references to techniques that help them with sinus headaches, fatigue, and back pain. The colorful photographs and illustrations along with the inspiring meditations make this the perfect mind-body text.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A step by step handbook to learning meditation and visualization,
By S Winters "S Winters" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Meditation Doctor: A Practical Approach to Healing Common Ailments Through Meditation (Paperback)
Author Martina Glasscock Barnes has started me on my way to a healthier body, mind, and spirit through meditation and visualization. I have been meditating 10-15 minutes and day I feel true benefits. As a complete novice I appreciated her step-by step approach and photographs. She writes with clarity and brevity yet addresses the vastness and depth of the subject at hand. This book would make a great gift - to yourself or a friend.
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