Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Understanding how your emotions and thoughts affect you physicallyLittle, 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. |
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... blood-sugar levels, body temperature, and the automatic functioning of the heart, lungs, and digestive and circulatory systems. It is like a pharmacy, releasing the neuropeptides necessary to maintain a balanced system. In the limbic ...
... blood pressure, heart palpitations, muscle tension, heavy breathing, disturbed sleep, loss of appetite, nausea, dry mouth, gastritis, ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, backache, excessive sweating, rashes, acne, and hives. The immune ...
... blood vessels, heighten the release of hormones such as adrenaline, affect digestion and breathing, and weaken the immune system. When I was eight years old, I was sent to boarding school, an experience I was not too thrilled about ...
... blood test?) Where do you hold the anxiety? What physical effect does it have? Do fears about the future create a pain in your stomach? Or in your legs? Watch your reactions. If your boss or your partner shouts at you, what happens to ...
... blood circulation, your digestion, and so on. Dr. Ashley Montague, author of Touching, has shown that children who do not receive enough love—who are not touched or communicated with on a regular basis—can actually stop growing. X-rays ...
Contents
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 | |
Other editions - View all
Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Understanding how Your Emotions and Thoughts ... Debbie Shapiro No preview available - 2007 |
Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Understanding How Your Emotions and Thoughts ... Debbie Shapiro No preview available - 2013 |
Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Understanding how your emotions and thoughts ... Deb Shapiro No preview available - 2012 |