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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... digestive, and circulatory systems. But how does all this happen? How do your thoughts and feelings affect you physically? The answer, in a word, is neuropeptides. Secreted by the brain, the immune system, and the nerve cells ...
... digestive system, your nerves, your immune system, or your sleep patterns. Pushed down it becomes illness, depression, addiction, or anxiety; projected outward it becomes hostility, aggression, prejudice, or fear. The clearest way to ...
... 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. Within a few weeks I had developed tonsillitis. In those days having your ...
... digestive system, speeding up the heart rate, and flooding your body with hormones, without any direct physical cause. (For more on stress, see chapter 9.) However, the bodymind relationship obviously goes deeper than just how you ...
... 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 provide evidence of ...
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 |