Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness [Paperback]

Deb Shapiro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2005

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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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Sounds True (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591794188
• ISBN-13: 978-1591794189
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unresolved Emotions create Conflict in the Body, February 7, 2007

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Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness (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

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Top reference books in Energy Medicine, October 17, 2006

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M. Branson (West Hartford, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness (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.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have reference, August 27, 2006

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Joanne (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness (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!