Here are some selections that can help you learn more about body memory and the mind-body connection.
Listening: How to Increase Awareness of Your Inner Guide
By Lee Coit
Lee Coit was an advertising agency owner for many years. As a result of deep dissatisfaction with his personal life, he sold his business and he embarked on a spiritual search for a Divine Source. Despite deep doubts he was lead on a fantastic journey of spiritual awakening which covered more than 20 years and circled the globe. His discoveries give the reader new ways to think and act. He explains them in very practical terms. Illustrations from his own experiences make his books easy and fun to read.
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The Stress of Life
By Hans Selyne,M.D.
Defined as the rate of wear and tear caused by life, stress is a new concept of metal and physical illness. Dr. Selye explains how to overcome the harmful effects of stress and how to use stress to your own advantage. He explores both biochemical and environmental facets of stress, stress & interpersonal relations, and offers readers a better understanding of their bodies.
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The Molecules of Emotion
By Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.
Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughs and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts if an interconnected system? This groundbreaking book provides startling and decisive anwers to these and other challanging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries.
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The Biology of Belief
By Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
This book will forever change how you think about your own thinking. Stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical affects of the brain’s functioning show that all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts. Using simple language, illustrations, humor and everyday examples, the author demonstrates how this new science is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between body and matter.
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The Joy of Burnout
By Dr. Dina Glouberman
Within the increasing stressed of modern life, our soul is whispering but we are not listening. If we soldier on, we risk losing everything – including our health, our happiness, even our lives. But if we listen to the message and take action, we can turn ourselves around. Burnout feels like the end of the world. It’s not. It’s the beginning of a new one.
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Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Can’t Live Without It, 4th Edition
By David Brownstein, M.D.
Iodine has been found to be a simple, safe, inexpensive was of healing many medical conditions. This book will inform you why there is not enough iodine in sale, what forms of iodine you need, how to get iodine from your diet, and why iodine deficiency may be the root cause of breast cancer, thyroid problems, and other maladies.
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The Genius of Flexibility
By Bob Cooley
The smart way to stretch and strengthen your body. Contracting muscles while lengthening them is called Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training. It offers immediate, cumulative, and permanent increases in flexibility; takes the pain out of stretching; and prevents you from over-stretching. Sixteen unique stretches produce concomitant physiological and psychological benefits.
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Eat Right 4 Your Type: Complete Blood Type Encyclopedia
By Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo with Catherine Whitney
Dr. D’Adamo has established himself as the world’s most popular and respected authority between blood type and eating, cooking healing and living. This A-Z reference guide for the blood type connection to symptoms, disease, conditions, vitamins, supplements, herbs and food. Discover how to treat over 300 conditions using the right remedy for your type.
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Healing Ancient Wounds: A Renegades Wisdom
By John F. Barnes, P.T.
This enjoyable and important book explores the intricacies of intuitive awareness and the dynamic mind/body healing principles of Myofascial Release. Myofascial Release is a mind/body therapeutic healing approach that is safe, comprehensive, and highly effective in relieving pain, headaches, and restoring motion. The goal of Myofascial Release is to return the individual to a pain-free, active lifestyle.
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Myofascial Release:The Search for Excellence
By John F. Barns, P.T.
The fascial system surrounds, infuses with, and has the potential to influence every muscle, bone, nerve blood vessel, organ and cell of the body. This book is about treatment of the fascial system. This book offers explanations of how myofascial release works so consistenty and effectively; to suggest a new expanded model of how the body functions; to describe the charactersitics of the fascial system; and to provide healthcare providers with excellent techniques that will allow them to treat the whole person.
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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
By Peter A. Levine
Offering a new and hopeful vision of trauma, this book views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.
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Your Inner Physician and You
By John E. Upledger, D.O.
This lively book describes the discovery and therapeutic value of the craniosacral system in easy, understandable terms healthcare professionals and laypeople alike can understand. Dr. Upledger’s colorful case histories explain the path that led to his discovery of this exciting medical modality. The book contains a play-by-play account of the development of CranioSacral Therapy, SomatoEmotional Release, and other concepts and techniques.
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Mysticism and the New Physics
By Michael Talbot
Mystics have long held that the physical world is an illusion. This book shows how quantum physics is putting forward ideas that confirm this perception.
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Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing
By Barbara Ann Brennon
A useful introduction to the scientific background behind her laying-on-of-hands technique. Brennan offers an explanation of her healing perspective and its use in conjunction with medical therapy, the stages and importance of self-care, and healing relationships through auric field interaction and higher spiritual realities. She encourages taking personal responsibility for one’s health through a holistic approach and consultation with nontraditional specialists as well as a physician.
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The Body Remembers
By Babette Rothschild
This book integrates body and mind in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. While reducing the chasm between scientific theory and clinical practice and bridging the gap between talk therapy and body therapy, Rothschild presents principles and non-touch techniques for giving the body its due. She consolidates current knowledge about the psychobiology of the stress response both in normally challenging situations and during extreme and prolonged trauma.
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Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists
By Thomas W. Myers
An accessible and comprehensive approach to the anatomy and function of the fascial system in the body combined with a holistic overview of myofascial therapy. This book demonstrates exactly how the muscles connect within the connect tissue to affect posture, compensatory strain, and pain patterns. The aim is to present scientifically sound and often complicated material in a way which can be easily learned, understood, and applied by those who do not necessarily have a scientific background.
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Jobs Body: A Handbook for Bodywork
By Deane Juhan
Juhan examines the physiology and psychology of our response to touch, combining excellent illustrations with a detailed but readable technical discussion. Individual sections conclude with his position that through body work, “heightened self-awareness and improved control over conditioned responses” will improve our health and reduce our Job-like suffering.
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Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins
By Sandra Ingerman
Ingerman, a therapist and well-known practitioner of soul retrieval, provides a thorough, thoughtful treatise on personal and planetary healing through the spiritual transmutation of environmental toxins. Motivated by her near-death experiences, she contemplates unconditional love through respect for sacred space, divine power, and nature’s elements. Key chapters cover the development of a personal creation story as well as releasing and calling-down ceremonies.
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The Secret Teachings of Plants
By Stephen Harrod Buhner
Reveals the use of direct perception in understanding Nature, medicinal plants, and the healing of human disease. Explores the techniques used by indigenous and Western peoples to learn directly from the plants themselves, including those of Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, and Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution. Contains leading-edge information on the heart as an organ of perception.
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Energy Medicine
By Donna Eden with David Feinstein
A book that not only articulates the principles of all therapies that work with the body as an energy system, it illustrates those principles with gripping case examples, backs them with the explosion of supportive research studies seen in the past few years, establishes them within a 5000 year cross-cultural perspective, and, most importantly, delivers to the reader a systematic program for self-care.
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The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy and Weight Loss
By Marc David
In The Slow Down Diet Marc David presents a new way to understand our relationship to food, focusing on quality and the possibilities of pleasure in eating to transform and improve metabolism. Citing cutting-edge research on body biochemistry as well as success stories from his own nutritional counseling practice, he shows that we are creatures of body, mind, and spirit and that when we attend to these levels simultaneously we can shed excess pounds, increase energy, and enhance digestion to feel rejuvenated and inspired.
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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Budda
By Tara Brach Ph.D.
Offers readers a rich compendium of stories and techniques designed to help people awaken from what she calls “the trance of unworthiness.” The sense of self-hatred and fearful isolation that afflicts so many people in the West can be transformed with the steady application of a loving attention infused with the insights of the Buddhist tradition.
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Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance
By James Oschman
Provides an entirely new perspective on the question of the human body’s potential for healing and physical performance. Written by a well-known and highly respected author in this comples field, this book is ideal for anyone interested in “hands-on” therapeutics, and performance at the cutting edge and beyond.
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Shaking Medicine: The Healing Power of Ecstatic Movement
By Bradford Keeney
Shaking Medicine reintroduces the oldest medicine on earth–the ecstatic shaking of the human body. Most people’s worst fear is losing control–of their circumstances, of their emotions, and especially of their bodies. Yet in order to achieve the transcendent state necessary to experience deep healing, we must surrender control. Examining cultural traditions from around the world where shaking has been used as a form of healing Bradford Keeney shows how shaking can bring forth profound therapeutic benefits.
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