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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... sexual organs, and the gut or stomach area, accounting for those moments when you have a “gut feeling” about something. Neuropeptides provide the link between perception, feelings, and thought, on the one hand, and the brain, hormonal ...
... sexual confidence.” This complex unity of body and mind is reflected in our state of physical health or illness. Each state is a means the bodymind has of giving us an indication of what is going on beneath the surface. If damage to one ...
... sexual problems. Behavioural changes may include sloppy dressing, fidgeting, sudden outbreaks of tears, over-indulgence in habits such as smoking or drinking, phobias, and impaired sexual performance. This is quite a list, and many of ...
... sexual promiscuity, behaviour that can be a way of self-medicating unresolved emotional pain. Emotions that are repressed, ignored, or denied, that never find expression, or were never fully acknowledged, are the ones that go deepest ...
... from the first round of denial.” Denied emotions can erupt. They can spill out through other emotions or strange behaviour. They can cause physical difficulties, sexual problems, relationship problems, or addiction. It is not always easy ...
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 |