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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... response. CHEMICAL SOUP The truth is that you are little more than a chemistry set. All your thoughts and feelings get translated into chemicals that fire off throughout your body, altering the chemical composition and behaviour of your ...
... responses in the chemical balance of the body. This in turn affects the immune, neural, endocrine, digestive, and circulatory systems. But how does all this happen? How do your thoughts and feelings affect you physically? The answer, in ...
... response enables you to respond to danger if, for instance, you are on the front line of a battle or face-toface with a large bear. However, seemingly unimportant events can also cause a stress reaction because the brain is unable to ...
... response in your body. Being pushed or knocked during rush hour, coping with an ill child, dealing with a dispute with the neighbours—your response to all these situations has to be contained, for society does not normally permit you to ...
... response, which in turn increases the likelihood of catching a cold or flu. “Has it ever struck you as unfair that glandular fever likes to attack young people at examination time?” asked Dr. Trisha Greenhalgh in The Times. “In the past ...
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 | |
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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 |