The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense

by Jawer, Michael A.

• ISBN13: 9781594772887
• ISBN10: 1594772886
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-21
• Publisher: Park Street Pr

Summary

Contemporary science holds that the brain rules the body, generating feelings and perceptions. Michael Jawer and Dr. Marc Micozzi contend that feelings underlie our conscious selves, determining what we think, how we conduct our lives and how we cope with physical and psychic distress.

Author Biography

Michael A. Jawer is an emotion researcher and expert on “sick building syndrome.” He lives in Vienna, Virginia. Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., is an anthropologist and medical educator who edited the first U.S. alternative medicine textbook, Fundamentals of Complementary & Alternative Medicine. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and Rockport, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Note for Readers

Forward by Larry Dossey, M.D.

Preface

Introduction

1    Putting Emotion in a New Light

2    Feelings and Emotions: The Key to It All

3    Feeling as the Integrator of Brain, Body, and Self

4    Selfhood: Its Origins in Sensation, Stress, and Immunity

5    Energy, Electricity, and Dissociation: Links to the Anomalous

6    Feeling and the Influence of Atmosphere

7    Anatomy of a Crisis

8    Sensitivity, Personality Traits, and Anomalous Perception

9    Environmental Sensitivity: Attesting to the Bodymind

10    Psychosomatic Plasticity and the Persistence of Memory

11    Time, Energy, and the Self

12    Evidence for the Emotional Gateway

13    The Mind Reconsidered: A Meditation on Who We Are and Where We’re Headed


Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index