Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Understanding how your emotions and thoughts affect you physically

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Little, Brown Book Group, 2012 M12 20 - 368 pages

What are your symptoms and illnesses telling you about yourself? In Your Body Speaks Your Mind, renowned teacher and bestselling author Deb Shapiro shows how understanding your body's 'language of symptoms' can increase your potential for healing. She explains the interconnectedness between your physical state and your emotional, psychological and spiritual health, and reveals: How unresolved emotional and psychological issues can affect your physical health; How feelings and thoughts are linked to specific parts of the body; How you can take steps to heal your body with your mind, and your mind with your body.

Your Body Speaks Your Mind shows you how to initiate communication between body and mind, and decode the priceless information your body is giving you, in order to achieve better health and a greater sense of wellbeing.

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Contents

Copyright Acknowledgements
Introduction
FINDING MEANING IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS
Mind and Matter Unite 2 The Language of Thoughts and Emotions
The Language of the Body
Listening to the Body Speak
YOUR BODYMIND REVEALED
From Your Head to Your Toes
The Rhythm of Love
Buddha in the Belly
Keeper of the Balance
His and Hers
Defining Boundaries
Getting Focused and Tuning
All in the Mind
Afterword

Moving Parts
Central Control
Survival Mode
Protector of the Castle
The Breath of Life
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

Deb Shapiro has trained extensively in various schools of bodywork, Buddhist meditation and Jungian psychology in both the UK and America. She has been teaching body-mind therapy and meditation with her husband, Ed Shapiro for over 20 years, and has written several books.

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