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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... stress are numerous, and their incidence is rapidly rising. Maladies directly caused by stress include migraine headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, muscle tension, and chronic fatigue, to name but a few. Modern medicine does not have a ...
... stress, or negative emotions. Balance is therefore sought through adjusting the energy flow. While Western medicine sees the patient as a machine, acupuncture (and related healing methods) sees the patient as an energy system that is ...
... stress-producing circumstances. THE STRESS FACTOR Imagine you are trying to squeeze some toothpaste out of a tube but you have forgotten to take the top off (or to flip the lid!). What happens? The toothpaste has to find some other way ...
... stress response releases are sustained, leading to a compromised immune system and more likelihood of physical sickness. Some of the physical symptoms that result from excessive stress are headaches, high blood pressure, heart ...
... Stress can arise at many times and in many different ways. In particular there is the emotional stress caused by major life changes such as moving house, getting married, or losing a loved one. At these times you may experience ...
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 |