The Wisdom of Healing: A Natural Mind Body Program for Optimal Wellness

By David Simon

Book Overview

"We are in the midst of a health revolution," says Simon.??"There is a perplexing disparity between the amazing medical miracles we have available to us??and the growing dissatisfaction with our modern health care system.??We have paid an emotional price for the high technology medicine of our time, sacrificing humane caring for efficiency.??And we are paying an ever increasing financial price as well." The Wisdom of Healing is divided into three sections,??each one designed to integrate the healing sciences of the east and west.??Dr.??Simon begins by exploring the importance of mental well being on physical health and continues with his insight into the world of the ancient Indian tradition of mind body medicine known as Ayurveda, which includes such treatments as food, herbs, breathing, purification and rejuvenation.??He concludes by recommending simple mind body prescriptions that can be incorporated to daily life. Never before has there been such an in-depth look into the study of applying ayurvedic medicine to some of??the most fatal diseases of this century.??InThe Wisdom of Healing, Dr. Simon breaks new ground in the affirmation that our mental state influences our physical well being.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517703432
• ISBN13: 9780517703434
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Step by step directions on return to wholness, it works!

Time honored ancient healing practices coincide with the laws of quantum physics, as Simon brings these two seemingly unrelated subjects together in a seamless cosmic dance. From the beginning of creation to the end of our physical lives and return to spirt we are taken on a journey supported by the latest theories on physics. Simon is able to take the Ayurvedic process apart and using conventional medical terms, he shows us how to be aware of the first subtle level of disease. Following our "instincts" regarding our mind body system, becomes the initial diagnosis tool. He gives us permission to feel rotten, trace it to an emotion, a stress or just a bad day, and then provides tools to deal with each such event before one stage leads to another and an unspeakable illness crops up diagnosed by x-ray or lab results. Giving credit to the intelligence of our own "machine" Simon leaves the responsibility with the owner. It is the first "owner's manual" I have seen for the human mindbody that makes sense. Traveling through the suggestions we are acquainted with parts of ourselves we knew existed but have gotten away from due to the flood of medial and sociatal pressures that tell us we have no control over anything in our world any more, not even our own body. Honoring and respecting ourselves just the way we are, and not buying into any other source of information that proceeds to tell us something we do not, in our hearts, believe, is the first step in the return to wholness. I found it enlightening, exciting, rejuvenating and honest. A well written manual for the beings we are today.