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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... hormone system and releases powerful endorphins that not only act as painkillers but also as antidepressants. This ... hormonal secretions, and every cell of the body, including those of the immune system, on the other, thereby creating ...
... hormone; without the hormone there is no feeling. The revolution we call mindbody medicine was based on this simple discovery: wherever thought goes, a chemical goes with it.” So can we honestly say there is any real difference between ...
... hormone secretion, the immune system, and the nervous system. This fight-or-flight response enables you to respond ... hormones and chemical balance as when you confront a dangerous situation in real life. For instance, try remembering ...
... 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. Within a few weeks I had developed ...
... hormones, without any direct physical cause. (For more on stress, see chapter 9.) However, the bodymind relationship obviously goes deeper than just how you perceive yourself in relation to stress-creating situations. What we find is ...
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 |