What are your symptoms and illnesses telling you about yourself? In Your Body Speaks Your Mind, renowned teacher and best-selling author Deb Shapiro shows you how mastering the language of your symptoms can actually increase your potential for healing. You'll discover how unresolved psycho/emotional issues can affect your physical health, how feelings and thoughts are linked to specific body parts, and steps you can take to heal your body with your mind and to heal your mind with your body.
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Deb Shapiro has trained extensively in various schools of bodywork, Buddhist meditation, and Jungian psychology in both England and America. She has been teaching both body-mind therapy and meditation with her husband, Ed Shapiro, for the past 20 years. Her books include The Body Mind Workbook (Vega Books, 2002), Meditation: Four Steps to Calmness and Clarity (Vega Books, 2003), and Unconditional Love (Time Warner AOL 2003). She and Ed reside in Boulder, Colorado.
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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"All your thoughts and feelings get translated into chemicals that fire off throughout your body, altering the chemical composition and behavior of your cells." ~ Deb Shapiro
If you have ever wondered how emotions affect the body, then "Your Body Speaks Your Mind" is an excellent place to start. Not only will you be able to understand your symptoms, you will also know how to eradicate them. This book contains many answers, especially to the following questions:
How do neuropeptides carry information from the mind to the body?
Do all diseases have their origin in the mind?
How do unresolved emotions affect your health?
Why are certain feelings linked to specific body parts?
What are the specific steps you can take to heal the body with your mind?
Deb Shapiro makes an interesting connection between love and health. She also shows how creative visualization and writing in a journal can help to take away symptoms of illness. By giving up negative emotions you can literally heal the body from the inside out. This book then becomes most useful as you make the connections and start the healing process.
"70 percent of patient visits to the doctor are for stress-related illnesses." ~ pg. 5
Some of the topics in this book include: Insomnia, Addiction, Nervous Breakdowns, Depression, Anxiety, Skin Conditions, Infertility, Menopause, The Digestive System, Eating Disorders and Heart Issues.
A CD is included with this book and contains visualization practices. I can recommend this book very highly and think it would make a perfect addition to any health library.
~The Rebecca Review
If you have ever wondered how emotions affect the body, then "Your Body Speaks Your Mind" is an excellent place to start. Not only will you be able to understand your symptoms, you will also know how to eradicate them. This book contains many answers, especially to the following questions:
How do neuropeptides carry information from the mind to the body?
Do all diseases have their origin in the mind?
How do unresolved emotions affect your health?
Why are certain feelings linked to specific body parts?
What are the specific steps you can take to heal the body with your mind?
Deb Shapiro makes an interesting connection between love and health. She also shows how creative visualization and writing in a journal can help to take away symptoms of illness. By giving up negative emotions you can literally heal the body from the inside out. This book then becomes most useful as you make the connections and start the healing process.
"70 percent of patient visits to the doctor are for stress-related illnesses." ~ pg. 5
Some of the topics in this book include: Insomnia, Addiction, Nervous Breakdowns, Depression, Anxiety, Skin Conditions, Infertility, Menopause, The Digestive System, Eating Disorders and Heart Issues.
A CD is included with this book and contains visualization practices. I can recommend this book very highly and think it would make a perfect addition to any health library.
~The Rebecca Review
45 of 46 people found the following review helpful
By M. Branson
Format:Paperback
I am an energy medicine practitioner, and I use this book frequently to support my clients in making the changes in their beliefs that support improvements in their health. The information is an excellent partner to Louise Hay's "Heal Your Body" (or her larger book "You Can Heal Your Life".) My perspective is that our beliefs affect our emotions in somewhat predictable ways; our emotions affect our biochemistry in some predictable ways; our biochemistry determines our physical health. The beliefs that are negatively impacting our physical health are often hard to unearth, and this book is extremely useful in offering possible starting points to consider.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
By Joanne
Format:Paperback
This book clearly and concisely explains the emotional and spiritual underpinnings for many physical dis eases. Rather than relying solely on conventional drug and western treatment methods, it helps the reader understand the deeper relationship of holistic approaches to healing - not just curing.
Deb Shapiro is a master in teaching us how to listen to what our bodies are trying to tell us through pain and disease. The enclosed CD - new with this edition - helps make the lessons contained in the book even more personal!
Deb Shapiro is a master in teaching us how to listen to what our bodies are trying to tell us through pain and disease. The enclosed CD - new with this edition - helps make the lessons contained in the book even more personal!
64 of 76 people found the following review helpful
By Jabberwock
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I expected more from this book, and was disappointed (which is why I'm returning the item to the store).
The author begins by giving an overview of the chakra system. An overview that is completely inaccurate according to ancient and existing information. The first chakra, for example, has never been related to "finance" in any way, yet the author managed to make that connection. In fact, all of the information in this book seems to have been grossly altered to give it a "new" feel.
The connections between mental/emotional issues and physical problems are the same old 1960's brochure material. If you grind your teeth, the author asks what you're angry about. If you're constipated, the author wants to know what you're holding onto.
I don't know if the author was trying to re-write old bodymind material, or address the energy system. She seems to be attempting to do both in this book, but she doesn't do it well.
The biggest disappointment comes when you discover there are no "answers" in this book. No suggestions about how to deal with psychosomatic illness. The dozens of other bodymind books I've read have given thoughts about how to address physical problems, but all Deb Shapiro seems to do is ask questions.
If you want information about the mind/body connection, there are many books superior to this one.
The author begins by giving an overview of the chakra system. An overview that is completely inaccurate according to ancient and existing information. The first chakra, for example, has never been related to "finance" in any way, yet the author managed to make that connection. In fact, all of the information in this book seems to have been grossly altered to give it a "new" feel.
The connections between mental/emotional issues and physical problems are the same old 1960's brochure material. If you grind your teeth, the author asks what you're angry about. If you're constipated, the author wants to know what you're holding onto.
I don't know if the author was trying to re-write old bodymind material, or address the energy system. She seems to be attempting to do both in this book, but she doesn't do it well.
The biggest disappointment comes when you discover there are no "answers" in this book. No suggestions about how to deal with psychosomatic illness. The dozens of other bodymind books I've read have given thoughts about how to address physical problems, but all Deb Shapiro seems to do is ask questions.
If you want information about the mind/body connection, there are many books superior to this one.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a book with an additional audio CD that describes a practical way to learn the language of your body so you can understand how your thoughts and feelings directly affect your physical health. It also includes a cross-referenced index of symptomatic illnesses and the emotional imbalances they symbolize. The CD has creative visualization and meditation techniques on to enhance your ability to listen to, communicate with, and heal your body, and more. More reviews at AudioColumn.com
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Now in a revised and updated edition, Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding The Emotional. Psychological, And Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness by bodymind therapy and meditation instructor of 20 years' experience Deb Shapiro is a guide to better understanding how to read and understand one's own bodily symptoms in order to increase one's own potential for healthcare and healing. Chapters discuss how physical health, feelings and thoughts are linked to specific body parts, and how to become aware of the body's rhythms and supplement both the body's healing with the mind and the mind's healing with the body. New to the revised edition, an accompanying audio CD includes two previously unreleased guided visualization practices to aid in experiencing and learning the techniques in Your Body Speaks Your Mind.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Your body knows, listen
The is a very good book for explaining why our thoughts have everything to do with our body. A Very wonderful book for looking for answers to why we feel the way we do.
Published 1 month ago by little girl
5.0 out of 5 stars
The spanish version of this book save my life years ago
Almost fifteen years ago I was suffering a very bad case of scoliosis due to deep stress. I knew it was sicosomatic in nature and I wanted to understand my emotions at the time. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Gloria I. Arango
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book
I haven't gotten very far into the book yet but the meditation CDs are wonderful and the book itself is exactly what the title describes. Read more
Published 4 months ago by R. Maier
5.0 out of 5 stars
My favorite book of life!
Shipped quickly, was in great condition. I love this book SO MUCH! This is actually the second copy I have had to purchase since it seems to disappear pretty quickly when I loan it... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Faith Yocom
2.0 out of 5 stars
Another book about mind-body interaction
Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Understand how your thoughts and emotions affect your health, by Debbie Shapiro, Piatkus, London, 1996, 256 ff. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Dr. H. A. Jones
4.0 out of 5 stars
A new way of looking at your body and it's happenings.
While I can't recommend this book in its entirety for anyone to live by, it certainly has some thought-provoking views on what could cause your body to "act up" based on... Read more
Published 5 months ago by DarwinsMuse
3.0 out of 5 stars
Basic
This book is pretty basic. Thought this book was going to be more in-depth but turned out to be a not what I was looking for.
Published 6 months ago by TMC
5.0 out of 5 stars
Your Body Speaks Your Mind
This is an excellent resource book for anyone interested in the mind/body connection and/or a complimentary care provider. The CD is excellent for personal growth and use. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Spirit Being
5.0 out of 5 stars
Shows How to Put the Mind-Body Connection Into Practice
I originally purchased this book in 2007 when I was experiencing a painful physical problem connected with my back. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Edie Dykeman
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is my bible
This book is nothing short of amazing. I have helped hundreds of clients decode their subconscious beliefs from this book.
Published 12 months ago by Lisa B. Schermerhorn
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