Spirit Body Healing: Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within [Hardcover]

Michael Samuels M.D. (Author), Mary Rockwood Lane PH.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2000

"Spirit Body Healing is filled with the truth about how spirit—and the creativity through which it is expressed—can heal us. I was very moved by this powerful book."—Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

"Dr. Michael Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring."—Bernie Siegel, M.D. author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles

"In this tender and caring book, we are reminded that healing is a creative process. These heartfelt stories and beautiful visualizations inspire the reader to see all life as a healing journey."—David Simon, M.D., Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Well Being; author of Vital Energy and Return to Wholeness

"Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every person’s healing journey." —Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Spirit Body Healing is a revolutionary program designed to heal and inspire.

A pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Dr. Michael Samuels has joined forces with a major authority on creativity and healing, Mary Rockwood Lane, to explore the power of the spirit-mind-body connection. Based on a landmark seven-year university study, Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center. By showing us how to deepen the spiritual dimension in our daily lives while doing easy visualizations and meditations, Drs. Samuels and Lane teach us how to help heal physical, emotional, and spiritual illness.

With Spirit Body Healing, we go to a place of healing, beauty, and grace where we get in touch with our own spirits and the higher power that has meaning for each of us. Filled with inspiring, beautifully written stories, Spirit Body Healing reveals the eight steps of spiritual healing.

1. Go into Darkness
2. Go Elsewhere
3. Find Your Turning Point
4. Slip through the Veil
5. Know the Truth
6. Embody Your Spirit
7. Feel the Healing Energy
8. Experience Transcendence

Whatever your spiritual orientation, Spirit Body Healing offers practical, prescriptive methods that show us and our loved ones how to create immediate changes in our lives?now.

From the Back Cover

"Spirit Body Healing is filled with the truth about how spirit--and the creativity through which it is expressed--can heal us. I was very moved by this powerful book."--(Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom)

"Dr. Michael Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring."--(Bernie Siegel, M.D. author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles)

"In this tender and caring book, we are reminded that healing is a creative process. These heartfelt stories and beautiful visualizations inspire the reader to see all life as a healing journey."--(David Simon, M.D., Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Well Being; author of Vital Energy and Return to Wholeness)

"Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every person's healing journey." --(Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471381411
• ISBN-13: 978-0471381419
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,025,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wow, December 7, 2000

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This review is from: Spirit Body Healing: Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within (Hardcover)

This book changed my life. After reading the stories in this book and doing the guided imagery exercises, I was different. I began to have beautiful visions and saw myself surrounded by guides and connected to others. This is my favorite book. I do not have an illness, I have done meditation for years, but this book took me to places in my spirit I have never been. I know it will change your life too.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spirit Body Healing, December 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Spirit Body Healing: Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within (Paperback)

Filled with beautifully written stories, this book reveals the eight steps of spiritual healing. It puts you in touch with your spirituality and also, a meaningful higher power. This graceful and sensitive guide will show you how to make immediate changes in your life.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars rather corny, not substantial, August 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Spirit Body Healing: Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within (Hardcover)

This book has good intentions, but they are not carried through in the text. The writing is rather flowery and general and by the end of the authors call *research*, you don't really find out what that research was. I was looking for a book to recommend to cancer patients who want to use self expression as part of their healing, but this was not the book, I ended up returning it.