Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of BeliefSimon and Schuster, 2009 M06 24 - 316 páginas Learn how the mind shapes the body, and take charge of your health and wellness with the science and power of belief. In this life-changing book, Dr. Herbert Benson draws on his twenty-five years as a physician and researcher to reveal how affirming beliefs, particularly belief in a higher power, make an important contribution to our physical health. We are not simply nourished by meditation and prayer, but are, in essence, "wired for God." Combining the wisdom of modem medicine and of age-old faith. Dr. Benson shows how anyone can, with the aid of a caring physician or healer, use their beliefs and other self-care methods to heal over 60 percent of medical problems. As practical as it is spiritual, Timeless Healing is a blueprint for healing and transforming your life. |
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... physician to take full ad- vantage of the solutions and cures conventional medicine has to offer. The biology of belief ensures that it is ever present in medicine and health of all kinds whether or not its effects i i Foreword.
... physician to take full ad- vantage of the solutions and cures conventional medicine has to offer. The biology of belief ensures that it is ever present in medicine and health of all kinds whether or not its effects i i Foreword.
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... physician-researchers do, unable to predict how each line of inquiry and its corre- sponding results would contribute to long-term improve- ments in medicine. But deep down, I always hoped that some immutable wisdom would emerge. Partly ...
... physician-researchers do, unable to predict how each line of inquiry and its corre- sponding results would contribute to long-term improve- ments in medicine. But deep down, I always hoped that some immutable wisdom would emerge. Partly ...
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... physician, plays a kind of trick on a patient's mind, producing benefits for the body. And we know that re- searchers often rely on placebos—inert substances or proce- dures—to contrast results between a control group and those ...
... physician, plays a kind of trick on a patient's mind, producing benefits for the body. And we know that re- searchers often rely on placebos—inert substances or proce- dures—to contrast results between a control group and those ...
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... physicians have always acknowl- edged this phenomenon, we haven't heralded its efficacy or ex- plored its therapeutic applications. As the ultimate insult, a placebo has often been called a "dummy pill." But the human body, with its ...
... physicians have always acknowl- edged this phenomenon, we haven't heralded its efficacy or ex- plored its therapeutic applications. As the ultimate insult, a placebo has often been called a "dummy pill." But the human body, with its ...
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... physicians be- gan to doubt whether these treatments worked , their effec- tiveness dropped to 30 to 40 percent . Nevertheless , our 1979 findings fell on deaf ears . My col- leagues greeted the subject with skeptical interest - but ...
... physicians be- gan to doubt whether these treatments worked , their effec- tiveness dropped to 30 to 40 percent . Nevertheless , our 1979 findings fell on deaf ears . My col- leagues greeted the subject with skeptical interest - but ...
Contenido
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The Brains Prerogative | 65 |
Medicines Spiritual Crisis | 97 |
The Relaxation Response | 123 |
The Faith Factor and the Spiritual Experience | 149 |
Optimal Medicine Optimal Health | 219 |
Trust Your Instincts Trust Your Doctor | 241 |
The Ills of Information | 257 |
Timeless Healing | 283 |
A Disclosure of Belief | 305 |
Relaxation Audio and Videotapes | 307 |
References | 313 |
Index | 341 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief Herbert Benson,Marg Stark Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief Herbert Benson,Marg Stark Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
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Página 296 - For the philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means.
Página 40 - ... the lethal medium, which he imagines is pouring into his body. His cheeks blanch and his eyes become glassy and the expression of his face becomes horribly distorted . . . He attempts to shriek but usually the sound chokes in his throat, and all that one might see is froth at his mouth. His body begins to tremble and the muscles twist involuntarily.
Página 248 - One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.
Página 118 - ... the Bowie-knife and the revolver, which has chewed the juice out of all the superlatives in the language in Fourth of July orations, and so used up its epithets in the rhetoric of abuse that it takes two great quarto dictionaries to supply the demand ; which insists in sending out yachts and horses and boys to out-sail, out-run, out-fight, and checkmate all the rest of creation ; how could such a people be content with any but
Página 40 - The man who discovers that he is being boned by any enemy is, indeed, a pitiable sight. He stands aghast, with his eyes staring at the treacherous pointer, and with his hands lifted as though to ward off the lethal medium, which he imagines is pouring into his body. His cheeks blanch and his eyes become glassy and the expression of his face becomes horribly distorted...
Página 67 - ... if there is anything which human history demonstrates, it is the extreme slowness with which the ordinary academic and critical mind acknowledges facts to exist which present themselves as wild facts with no stall or pigeon-hole, or as facts which threaten to break up the accepted system.
Página 171 - For reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but — more frequently than not — struggles against the Divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
Página 136 - Throughout, assume a passive attitude. Don't worry about how well you're doing. When other thoughts come to mind, simply say to yourself, "Oh, well," and gently return to the repetition.
Página 68 - Descartes' error: the abyssal separation between body and mind, between the sizable, dimensioned, mechanically operated infinitely divisible body stuff, on the one hand, and the unsizable, undimensioned, un-pushpullable, nondivisible mind stuff; the suggestion that reasoning, and moral judgment, and the suffering that comes from physical pain or emotional upheaval might exist separately from the body.
Página 136 - Step 2. Sit quietly in a comfortable position. Step 3. Close your eyes. Step 4. Relax your muscles. Step 5. Breathe slowly and naturally, and as you do, repeat your focus word, phrase or prayer silently to yourself as you exhale.