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Minding the Body, Mending the Mind [Paperback]

Joan Borysenko
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Book Description

November 13, 2007
Based on Dr. Borysenko’s groundbreaking work nearly twenty years ago at the Mind/Body Clinic in Boston, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind continues to be a classic in the field, with time-tested tips on how to take control of your own physical and emotional wellbeing. The clinic’s dramatic success with thousands of patients-with conditions ranging from allergies to cancer-offers vivid proof of the effectiveness of the mind/body approach to health and its power to transform your life. Here are tips on how to elicit the mind’s powerful relaxation response to boost your immune system, cope with chronic pain, and alleviate symptoms of a host of stress-related illnesses. Updated with the recent developments in the field, the new edition is a must-have for anyone interested in taking an active role in healing himself or herself.

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Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Borysenko, co-founder and director of the Mind/Body Clinic at New England Deaconess Hospital/Harvard Medical School, describes the clinic's ten-week program for learning to "mind the body" through a medical synthesis of neurology, immunology, and psychology. She provides step-by-step instructions to the clinic's techniques while suggesting how they can be adapted for individual use. Combining meditation, breath control and stretching exercises, and mindfulness, and drawn from work with patients aged 17 to 93, these techniques help ease the stress of illnessparticularly illness caused by stressby exploiting the body's natural capacity for healing. Readers who master them can achieve an admirable balance between inner self and environment. Jodith Janes, Univ. Hospitals of Cleveland
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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"Keeping in Touch"
"An integral holistic workbook for those seeking to lie more sane, healthier, happier lives...Borysenko's text glows with compassion and clarity."

Product Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press; Revised edition (November 13, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0738211168
  • ISBN-13: 978-0738211169
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,263 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., is the author of thirteen books, including A Woman's Book of Life, Saying Yes to Change, and Inner Peace for Busy People. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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91 of 91 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Your thoughts should work with you, not against you! January 19, 2002
By A Customer
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I read this book at a very low point in my life, with depression and a variety of physical symptoms related to anxiety. This practical, straightforward book helped me gain some control of racing, negative thoughts (Borysenko calls this type of thinking "awfulizing"). Borysenko's rationale includes the fact that your body can actually help your mind to calm down. She provides simple, gentle stretching/breathing to help this happen. For me, it was most valuable to realize that even if my thoughts/intellect seemed beyond my control, my physiology is the same as all humans. Therefore, breathing/stretching has to affect my body/mind the same way as it does other humans. I kept the book on hand for bad moments, and I found that using the exercises helped me to bypass the downward spiraling thoughts and begin to get centered. She includes theory, psychology, and spirituality which supports the intellect as well. I still needed help after I found this book, but it absolutely put me on a safer, stronger path. I have loaned this book several times, to others in need. There are so many books out there, it's overwhelming. This one is worth it.
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53 of 53 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Practical book . . . July 11, 1999
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
As far as self-help books go, this one is practical, informative, and easy to read. Joan Borysenko, I believe, is good at her craft, and gets her ideas across well.

This is a book that is based on the belief that the mind can help heal the body. There's physical exercises and stretches to relieve tenstion and anxiety, there's deep breathing instructions to initiate the relaxation response, meditation to calm the mind and expand the soul, and there's even a psychological evaltional of questions and answers to guide you in your stress, anxiety, and depression levels, which may be contributing to your physical illness.

Joan Borysenko presents her knowledge in a straight-forward, down-to-earth way that makes the reader sit up and listen.

Truly a helpful book to anyone who has a phycial illness, and wants to help the mind heal the body.

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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Minding your thoughts can mend your body August 12, 2006
Format:Paperback
MINDING THE BODY, MENDING THE MIND by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., was recommended to me when I was trying to adjust to a new work environment. I found it tremendously informative and helpful in a number of ways.

Borysenko is the cofounder of the Mind/Body Clinic at New England Deaconess Hospital at the Harvard Medical School and has her doctorate in anatomy and cellular biology from Harvard. This book reflects her experience in the relatively new medical field of psychoneuroimmunology, which studies how the mind interacts with the body for illness and for healing.

The book is specifically about meditation and can be used as a how-to for self instruction in the practice. What I liked about it is that it provides a physiological case for the helpfulness of meditation while it teaches the reader how to use what Borysenko has pioneered in medical circles, that meditation and controlled relaxation have a positive impact on general health and, sometimes, on specific illnesses.

Borysenko explains how our bodies become conditioned to stress and respond accordingly with anxiety symptoms and that, through meditation practice, individuals can recondition themselves not to feel the physical manifestations of stress, which are so taxing to general health.

Borysenko's medical credentials are meaningful to me, and her ability to illustrate how the brain and the body are interdependent was helpful to me, as we are taught in our culture to keep the two separate and devalue our ability to impact our health through our mental reactions and proactiveness.

Even if one doesn't use the book to learn to meditate, Borysenko has a great deal to offer in terms of quality of life to her readers. The book really helps the reader to recognize harmful mental patterns and stop them, to exercise cognitive control, so that stress is diffused before the anxiety is felt in the body. She writes about "awfulizing," obsessing over something stressful, second-guessing ourselves, etc., and how to stop it through positive thought that is healing, rather than stress-making. The chapter called "Mind Traps" is especially helpful in this regard, and I find myself using her tips to diffuse tension AND improve the situation.

I strongly recommend this book, even for those who aren't interested in meditation. Borysenko provides evidence on how positive thought processes can be achieved and how they can make a difference. This book is considered a classic in the field, and it deserves the esteem that has made it so.
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5.0 out of 5 stars minding the body, mending the mind
Minding the body, mending the mind is one of the best books on healing both mind and body. Joan Borysenko has done a great job in being practical and understandable in her approach... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Deb Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Science meets spiritual
I found a copy of this book in anser to a prayer and was excited with the information it contained. Knowing I would have to return the found book I ordered this copy to have one... Read more
Published 2 months ago by whisperer
5.0 out of 5 stars Very catchy
I enjoyed this book and would reccomend it for anyone to read. I have started using this in my own life.
Published 3 months ago by Robin
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book.
I strongly recommend this book to improve life. I love this book .
People should not forget mind and think of body only.
Published 4 months ago by Rajni Gohil
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
This book does an excellent job of showing the mind-body connection and gives simple, specific guidelines for making it work for you. Read more
Published 4 months ago by John S. Gregg
5.0 out of 5 stars Minding the body,Mending the Mind
The book is very good. I enjoy all of Joan's books. It helps one understand the body and the mind and how they work together.
Published 11 months ago by Patricia A. Crouse
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice - Enjoyable
I enjoyed the book. However I was irritated by the erroneous referral to "Global Warming." It was not needed and by the time this edition of the book was issued the author should... Read more
Published 23 months ago by L. Gibson
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent customer service
I was concerned when I ordered the item with "expedite delivery" and got the message confirming my order saying that it was going to take over 7 days to deliver! Read more
Published on July 11, 2010 by GoldenHeart
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is helping me become healthier.
I picked this book up and didn't really expect much of it but I was wrong. I've read and re-read the book and each time I find new wisdom and practical ideas for living in the... Read more
Published on May 25, 2009 by YOGINIGAL
5.0 out of 5 stars minding the body mending the mind
recommended by my doctor and i can see why. this book is really good and helps you find ways to relax and the reasons why. would definitely recommend it and the seller.
Published on January 13, 2009 by R. Perkins
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