Calm Healing Methods for a New Era of Medicine

by Newman, Robert Bruce; Miller, Ruth L.; Grossinger, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781556436260
• ISBN10: 1556436262
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-12
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

With disease statistics rising and health-care costs soaring, Calm Healing is a timely book indeed. Written in an accessible style, the book shows readers how to take an active role in their health by developing their innate skills for healing themselves and others. Part I presents a history of mind-body medicine, describing meditation methods across cultures and meditation research. Part II creates a new model of the human body based on a synthesis of disciplines, including quantum physics and energy medicine. Part III describes a wide range of healing methods including the healing practice of humour, cardio-awareness, progressive neuromuscular release, awareness-based energy breathing, transformative compassionate breathing, childbirth applications and methods for near-death care. This section concludes with an analysis of healing the present by healing the past. Part IV focuses on self-healing and the worldwide transformation made possible by the effective action of groups engaged in mind-body healing.

Author Biography

A previously published author and university professor, Robert Newman, founded the World Health Foundation (now Medigrace), an organization dedicated to researching and developing new medical methods based on meditation science and advances in mind-body medicine. For twenty years, he apprenticed with Tibetan meditation doctors and masters.

Experienced in the areas of psychoneuroimmunology, metaphysics and various forms of meditation, Ruth L. Miller, PhD gives workshops and classes on social consciousness and the emerging new medical paradigm. She has co-founded several spiritual and service organizations in the state of Oregon.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Richard Grossinger	ix
Introduction	xxiii
Part One: Meditation and Mind-Body Medicine
Chapter 1. Mind-Body Medicine Comes of Age	3	(22)
Chapter 2. Meditation Methods Across Cultures	25	(20)
Chapter 3. Meditation Research in the United States	45	(38)
Part Two: A New Model for Healing
Chapter 4. States of Consciousness—Emerging Understandings	83	(20)
Chapter 5. A New Model of the Body for a New Era of Medicine	103	(40)
Chapter 6. A New Model of the Healing Process	143	(22)
Part Three: Healing Methods
Chapter 7. Cardio-Awareness Healing Systems	165	(8)
Chapter 8. Progressive Neuromuscular Release	173	(20)
Chapter 9. Awareness-Based Energy Breathing	193	(14)
Chapter 10. Transformative Compassionate Breathing	207	(12)
Chapter 11. Applications Around Childbirth	219	(34)
Chapter 12. Healing the Present by Healing the Past	253	(24)
Chapter 13. The Healing Practice of Humor	277	(12)
Chapter 14. Health Care Methods for the Semi-Comatose and Comatose, and for Near-Death Care	289	(22)
Part Four: New Possibilities
Chapter 15. Transforming Our Paradigm of Illness	311	(6)
Chapter 16. Healing the Person, Healing the Planet	317	(12)
Chapter 17. The Genius of Self-Care	329	(6)
Appendix: The Light Nature of the Energy Body According to Vajrayana Buddhism	335	(5)
Concise Bibliography of Vajrayana Literature in English	340	(2)
Glossary	342	(8)
Index	350	(11)
Acknowledgments	361	(3)
About the Authors	364