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Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind

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I found this book in a book store on Feb 15, 2008. I had to buy it then, as I have been in a lot of pain. I started reading it that night. I did the "feeling energy" chapter right away and was feeling energy so quickly! A tingling, a warmth...it is hard to describe. It is called manipulating BioEM energy fields to heal physical problems. Just doing this for one evening took the edge off my pain right away. And I know pain; I have Rheumatoid Arthritis, a replaced right ankle and IBS. I have been doing this everyday since and am amazed how the pain and stiffness is going down, in only 12 days!!! I feel so much more hope than I have in a long time. Doctors don't have much to offer us in many illnesses, except for drugs, surgery, etc. Many doctors are missing the WHOLE picture, health isn't just about symptoms and treating the symptoms. I am thankful for Dr. Levy and other doctors like him who do see that we are more (at our core we are spiritual beings, but we "forget" this) and can heal, IF we do the work. We have to stop being lazy and expect Doctors to heal/cure us, they won't. Be proactive and put your health in your hands, you have that power, it truly is amazing. This book really gives us that opportunity. But you must be willing to do what he outlines and more, if you are not willing, then don't buy this book. It takes work from you and just reading it won't help you.

I am still working on the other areas of the book too. I am meditating, have been on and off for years, now that I know it helps pain, I will continue!
You can download the audios and put them on a CD or iPOD. I also know hypnosis works, I have done it in the past. But now I can do it at home with these audios.
Also I am writing my conscious assessment and looking for the mental causes.
Levy says that "every disease in the body begins with dis-ease in the mind. There is a mental root for every physical problem. If you discover this root and heal it, your physical health will improve. There are no exceptions." (Chapter 5)

I have believed this for years, but didn't know how to get to the bottom of it. Emotions cause our health problems. Much of them are buried in our subconscious, we don't consciously know what is affecting us, but under hypnosis we can find the answers we need to release the emotions and thus the health problems.

Buy this book and do the work he outlines, you will be amazed too. For now, just try holding your hands close together without touching, 1/4 of an inch or so apart, out in front of you and perpendicular to the floor. Pay attention to what you feel, keep at it, you will feel the energy! So while I sit and watch TV, I hold my hands together and immediately feel the energy moving all over my body, esp to my feet as that is where I need it most...it knows where to go!
If you buy this book you won't be disappointed IF you are willing to really make a commitment to improving your health and do the work in it. Check out Dr. Levy's website too for more information.

Miraculous Health is a practical and powerful guide to getting and staying healthy using mind-body health tools. It integrates the latest of scientific research together with spiritual wisdom into simple, clear language, making it accessible to almost anyone. I particularly like the step-by-step, nuts-&-bolts approach Dr. Levy takes, going from an introduction to the field of mind-body health to giving tangible tools to be applied in daily life. The guided meditations I downloaded from the website are exceptional!! I've been listening to them, relaxing, letting go of stress & getting clear of life goals! I also like Dr. Levy's focus on helping people achieve their "noble ambitions in life," something the world can certainly use!

Dr. Rick Levy writes well and Miraculous Health is an interesting read. He speaks about different levels of the mind--the conscious, the unconscious, the super conscious, and the universal super unconscious. Each level has a gatekeeper that one must learn to bypass to reach higher powers and enlightenment. The author provides a website with downloads with hypnotic aids to help the reader bypass the "critical factor/gatekeeper" to obtain greater life skills.

I was turned off by the time the author spent trying to convince the reader of his own incredible powers, abilities, and experience healing people in unconventional ways. I also found parts of the book too much to buy into.

Whether everything in this book is true or not is something the reader must make a judgment about. I found it entertaining and appreciate the exposure to conceptual alternatives to traditional medical treatment. I think it was a worthwhile read.

Dr. Levy is the real deal and his methods work. After a major neck injury and emergency surgery, my neurosurgeon said I would never walk again without assistance and I was living in chronic pain that no prescription painkiller could touch. I used Dr. Levy's methods to free myself from pain and paralysis in a case where traditional medicine had nothing to offer me. The beauty of his book and the accompanying audio methods is that they constitute an entire system of self-healing that can be tailored by anyone to meet their individual needs. The scientific explanations are easy to understand, the stories gripping and insightful, and the methods so simple a child can use them. Just as importantly, the book packs an extraordinary side-benefit: it turns you on to just how much power and control you can exert over your health, your future and the world around you. It is nothing shy of life changing.

As an M.D., I have the following thoughts to offer:

Western medicine has always changed with discovery, be it in mind-body medicine or otherwise. The first question is not how to change, but what is truth? The following points come to mind: Numerous researchers, including Bernard Lown, M.D. and Dean Ornish, M.D., have demonstrated how negative mental states such has stress predispose individuals to disease, and that correction of these states improve health (references 1, 2). A group in London recently showed that mental stress causes asymmetric brain activity that raises susceptibility to serious ventricular arrhythmias (reference 3). Therefore, by clinical experience, randomized controlled trials, and finally by steps towards elucidating the connections between mind and body, science appears to slowly be moving in the direction of acceptance and proof. In one study in Chicago, 96% of the surveyed physicians reported believing in the placebo effect, and 45% actually reported using placebos in their clinical practice (reference 4). If we can take the preceding evidence, remember science will forever continue to unfold truth, and allow ourselves to currently accept the connection between mind and body as true, then we can both continue exploration into the field and try to implement it in daily practice.

In this book, Dr. Levy brings to light the mind-body connection, and offers a number of easy ways to practice the functional parts of the connection to benefit. Examples include hypnosis, visualization exercises, and new exercises not previously encountered. Strengths of the book include his rational approach, the simplicity of his techniques, and, again, the originality of his ideas. I find many of the techniques both easy to implement and difficult to practice, my mind carried away by daily thoughts of work or forthcoming activities. And yet, I am surprised that I do seem more relaxed; I compare this with the aforementioned study that found risk of heart disease increased with mental stress, and it suggests that I did indeed benefit. Part of the reason there is relatively less research and publicity in this field, though it is increasing with the formation of the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, is that it is difficult to define and quantify variables - but it certainly appears that how we feel, whether we like it or not, can affect our health. This book, as the many others before it, present further impetus for large, controlled trials investigating these effects, for certainly large trials are needed to prove the sometimes subtle benefits. I do not think anyone can disagree with Dr. Levy's own words: "try the methods, observe what happens, and go with your own experience."

1. Lown B. et al. Psychologic stress and threshold for repetitive ventricular response. Science. 1973 Nov 23;182(114):834-62.
2. Ornish D. et al. Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease? The Lifestyle Heart Trial. Lancet. 1990 Jul 21;336(8708):129-33.
3. Critchley H. et al. Mental stress and sudden cardiac death: asymmetric midbrain activity as a linking mechanism. Brain. 2005 Jan;128(Pt 1):75-85. Epub 2004 Oct 20.
4. Sherman R. et al. Academic physicians use placebos in clinical practice and believe in the mind-body connection. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2008 Jan;23(1):7-10. Epub 2007 Nov 10.

If you are looking to get healthy and want an approach that is both based in practicality and spirituality, then this book is definitely for you. In the past, I was lucky enough to have heard Dr. Levy speak in a public forum, so I have seen first hand how amazing he is and what a clear communicator he is. The book is a lot like his talks - easy to follow along and very inspiring. It is also really cool that the book has links to a number of online tools that you can use to master the techinques covered in the book.

What if you could control pain with just your thoughts? Or help to heal a broken leg with the energy that exists in your body and mind? Miraculous Health by Dr. Rick Levy is a fascinating book dealing primarily with hypnosis and meditation, not only for pain and healing, but for maintaining good health and for things like weight loss. As a licensed psychologist, he discusses in great detail the mind/body connection, how hypnosis and meditation work and how important our thinking is to our physical health and well being. He explains that his ideas should be used to complement conventional medical care, not replace it.

I think a lot of us understand on some level that our thoughts can affect our health but Dr. Levy explains that everything in existence is made out of energy and energy is governed by thought. He tells us that thought occurs on four levels in the human mind, with each level more powerful than the last, all the way up to infinite mind which is like universal thought or being one with God or whatever ultimate force or being we believe in. Most people are only using one level of thought - conscious thought, which is the weakest part of the mind. He likens it to an iceberg with the conscious mind being the small part above the water and the subconscious being the much larger part below the water. When you learn to "think" at all four levels no problem can resist your will, whether the issue is trivial or "life and death."

There are so many fascinating parts to this book. I have to admit that some of it was hard for me to buy into and seemed just too good to be true. I can't imagine having the ability to cure every ailment with just our minds. But we've all known people who've overcome some level of illness and more often than not these are the type of people with a positive outlook, who believe that they will improve. I'm convinced that we can have at least some amount of control.

With the purchase of this book Dr. Levy provides access to 11 different hypnosis and guided meditation sessions that can be downloaded from his website. They range from about 8 ½ minutes to almost 45 minutes. You can listen to these on your computer with iTunes or transfer them to your iPod. They are meant to be listened to as you read his book explaining how they are to be used. Since this type of work requires time and repetition, I've only listened to the first few, but it was easy to be guided into a hypnotic state. One of the downloads deals with weight loss which is a subject near and dear to my heart so I did listen to that one right away. I am hoping that by using it over a period of weeks, controlling my eating will become second nature rather than having it weigh heavily on my mind all the time. The sessions make me very relaxed afterward and I've been in a very good mood when waking up the last few mornings which I think have a lot to do with the hypnosis.

I've never had much success with meditation even though it's become so commonplace that they're thinking of teaching it to kids in California schools to help them with learning. I bet I'm not the only one who went all the way through the 70's not being able to "get it". But Dr. Levy's in depth explanation in this book has given me a different perspective. And one of his downloads is a hypnosis guided meditation session so I'm hoping this will be what I need to finally reach a meditative state.

There is so much information in this book. If you've ever wondered about the mind/body connection, this is one that you won't want to miss.

After a 16 foot fall from a ladder and a broken ankle and leg I found Dr. Levy's book to be an amazing self healing tool. Obviously I needed surgery to get put back together but Levy's book gave me unknown insights into how to use my own healing powers to speed my recovery. The meditation he teaches is also extremely helpful not just for healing injuries but for my overall well being and making good life decisions.

Jim Brown
Barnesville, Maryland

MIRACULOUS HEALTH: HOW TO HEAL YOUR BODY BY UNLEASHING THE HIDDEN POWER OF YOUR MIND isn't just an admonition of what should happen - it offers a concrete blueprint for achieving good health, guiding readers through a program to heal physical illness or injury and offering healing techniques blending the latest mind-body research. It's this specific program which makes MIRACULOUS HEALTH so different from competitors: backed by a psychologist working at the forefront of mind-body medicine since 1976, it offers up expert advice.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

I love Dr. Levy's book and his insights into the workings of the human mind as relating to physical and emotional healing. His style is clear, practical, and concise. I have been using the book and audio to improve my health and relieve stress, and have gotten significant results. I am in total agreement with all but one reviewer so far who have rightfully praised this book and what it has to offer.

I am writing this review to mostly address veggiegirl's discontent that part of the book is on the author's website. Firstly, the audio recordings on the website are COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE. It's free, for heaven's sake! What is there to complain about? I downloaded the MP3s and have them on my iPod as well as on a disk for backup. There is no other way to offer the audio (unless doing a disk and attaching it to the book, and who listens to disks nowadays anyway with all these MP3 players) except to post it somewhere separately.

We should actually be thanking Dr. Levy for going to the trouble of creating them and putting them up for us online. He could've easily sold his intellectual property recordings like many others do. As a comparison, 3 years ago I purchased a similar set of hypnosis recordings from ANOTHER expert for the "low" price of $135 plus S& H.

If you are interested in alternative mind-body healing methods, purchase the book, you will not be sorry. And then go get your FREE audio online.