Spirit Body Healing : Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within

by Michael Samuels; Mary Rockwood Lane

• ISBN13: 9780471381419
• ISBN10: 0471381411
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

"Dr. Mike Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring."-Bernie Siegel, MD A forefather in the field of mind-body medicine and one of the world's leading experts on healing through creative imagery explore the power of the spirit-body-mind connection. Filled with inspiring and beautifully written stories of people who have recovered from such life-threatening illnesses as cancer, heart disease, and severe depression, Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center. By showing readers how to deepen the spiritual dimension in their daily lives, the authors teach us how to help heal physical illness. The authors present a series of exercises, activities, and guided imagery visualizations that allow readers to use their mind's eye to unlock the medicine within.

Author Biography

MICHAEL SAMUELS, M.D., has used guided imagery with cancer patients for over twenty-five years. The author of sixteen previous books, Dr. Samuels has often appeared on television and radio, including the Today show.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Mary Rockwood Lane
The Research Study	xii
Moving from Darkness to Transcendence	xiv
Teachings from the Edge	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction: The First Path for People to Heal with Spirit	1	(1)
Michael Samuels
Use Spirit Body Healing to Heal Your Whole Life	2	(1)
Help Your Inner Healer	2	(3)
Part One: Understanding Spirit Body Healing	5	(30)
The Experience of Spirit Body Healing	7	(14)
Spirit Body Healing to Help You Change Your Life	10	(1)
Use This Book to Heal	11	(2)
You Know the Ending Before You Start, So Start the Process with Faith	13	(1)
Use Guided Imagery	14	(5)
Begin to Heal Now	19	(2)
The Process of Spirit Body Healing	21	(6)
The Eight Spirals of Spirit Body Healing	22	(2)
Restory Your Life	24	(1)
Invite a Peak Spiritual Experience to Come to You	25	(2)
How Spirit Body Healing Works: Unlocking the Medicine Within	27	(8)
The Spiritual Experience Is Perceived as Imagery	28	(4)
Longevity and the Spirit	32	(3)
Part Two: The Eight Steps of Spirit Body Healing	35	(144)
Go into Your Own Pain and Darkness	37	(22)
Pain is the Doorway to Spirit Body Healing	39	(2)
Move from Pain to Beauty	41	(2)
Use Books As Tools to Start Your Journey	43	(3)
Turn Fear into Compassion	46	(1)
Pain Deepens to Darkness	46	(3)
Remember Things Past	49	(1)
Extract Your Pain	49	(1)
Reflections on Pain and Darkness	50	(2)
Use Guided Imagery	52	(7)
Go Elsewhere	59	(18)
Restory Your Own Life	61	(1)
The Pause Invites You	62	(1)
Reclaim Your Dreamer Within	63	(1)
Go Inward into Your Heart	64	(2)
The Trigger Event Invites You	66	(4)
Reflections on Going Elsewhere	70	(2)
Use Guided Imagery	72	(5)
Find Your Own Turning Point	77	(22)
Be Creative	80	(2)
Open Your Mind to Something New	82	(13)
Reflections from the Turning Point: Follow Your Passion to Your Turning Point	95	(1)
Use Guided Imagery	96	(3)
Slip through the Veil	99	(12)
Slip into Enchantment	100	(1)
Feel the Spaciousness Inside	101	(1)
Go into Mystical Enchantment	102	(4)
Breathe in Oneness	106	(1)
Reflections on Going through the Veil: Merge with a Greater Power	106	(1)
Use Guided Imagery	107	(4)
Know the Truth and Trust the Process	111	(12)
Know It's the Truth	112	(4)
Reflections on Knowing the Truth and Trusting the Process	116	(3)
Use Guided Imagery	119	(4)
Embody Your Spirit	123	(14)
You Can Embody Spirit	127	(3)
Allow Spirit to Come into You From the Earth	130	(2)
Reflections on the Embodiment of Spirit	132	(2)
Use Guided Imagery	134	(3)
Feel the Healing Energy of Love and Compassion	137	(14)
Feel Compassion and Healing Energy	140	(3)
Use Humor to Release Healing Energy	143	(3)
Feel Compassion for Yourself	146	(1)
Reflections on Healing Energy and Compassion: Release Judgment and See with Compassion	146	(1)
Use Guided Imagery	147	(4)
Experience Transcendence	151	(28)
See Yourself As Surrounded by God and the Angels	153	(1)
Share Your Love	154	(1)
IIluminosity: Be within the Light	154	(13)
Move from Healing Illness to Healing the Earth	167	(2)
Reflections on Transcendence	169	(1)
Use Guided Imagery	170	(9)
Part Three; The Spirit Body Healing Method	179	(40)
The Prescription for Spirit Body Healing	181	(34)
Starbursts within the Stories Reveal Wisdom	181	(1)
Go into Your Own Pain and Darkness	182	(3)
Go Elsewhere	185	(4)
Find Your Own Turning Point	189	(7)
Slip through the Veil	196	(2)
Know the Truth and Trust the Process	198	(3)
Embody Your Own Spirit	201	(3)
Feel the Healing Energy of Love and Compassion	204	(3)
Experience Transcendence	207	(8)
The Teachings from the Edge	215	(4)
Raise the Storyteller to the Level of the Wisdom Keeper	215	(1)
Learn the Teachings from the Edge	215	(4)
Epilogue: I Close My Eyes in the Darkness	219	(4)
Recommended Reading	223	(12)
References	235	(10)
Resources	245	(2)
Index	247