Blueprint for Holistic Healing: Your Practical Guide to Body-Mind-Spirit Health : Shealy, C. Norman

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Dr. Shealy was first introduced to the work of the “father of holistic medicine,” Edgar Cayce, in the early 1970s. Cayce was the inspiration for his transformation from traditional medicine to holistic alternative therapies, which he has pursued for more than 30 years. Now combining decades of clinical work and research with advice from the Edgar Cayce readings, Shealy has created a blueprint for healing that each of us can follow with questionnaires for self-assessment throughout.

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C. NORMAN SHEALY, MD, PhD is a neurosurgeon, psychologist, and founding president of the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA). For over three decades, he has been at the forefront of alternative medicine and alternative health care. He holds ten patents for innovative discoveries in medicine, has published more than 300 articles, and authored more than 25 books. He is the co-founder of the American Board of Scientific Medical Intuition, and perhaps the world s foremost medical expert on medical intuition. Learn more at NormShealy.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thank youReviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on 1 December 2016
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Santoshi
5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure chest of tools to help with your healingReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 4 October 2016
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This book is a great book for anyone interested in healing themselves using tools that Dr Shealy has presented in a clear, easy format that anyone can apply to themselves. Read through the book focusing on any issue that you have, and you will find wonderful alternatives to western medicine. If you are new to the the field of healing or you have been on a path of healing for many years, as I have, what this book offers you is a "program" that you can follow in everyday life. Not too much woo woo but enough of Dr Sealy's experience with such greats as the Edgar Cayce foundation and his experience as an MD makes this book a very interesting read. Dr Shealy is considered to be the Father of Holistic Medicine, at almost 84 years young, he is a walking example of everything that he presents in this book. Don't let his age sway you he has more energy than many others I see. If I had one thing to share with you that has helped me it would be the presentation of autogenic training that is in the book. I can honestly say that Dr Shealy has truly changed my life for the better with this book as well as his other books. I hope that it will help you also.

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E-K. Daufin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to Shealey's elemental announcing I hadn't heard of before.Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 8 September 2017
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I looked up the company on line and got the oils and charts that are as big as an envelope, much more convenient. That company wouldn't honor a discount that was on their site when I ordered so I didn't reorder from them but still do the annointing and use the charts. I do MANY health practices but still find these useful over time. The book itself gives you a good background on the anointing process. I also watched the videos online too. Dr Shealey does wax nostalgic in this book but I love his avuncular energy so I didn't mind as some other reviewers do.

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Aisling D.
3.0 out of 5 stars Shealy "lite" with a lot of interesting filler from Edgar CayceReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 9 January 2017
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Shealy's advice is great, so this book IS worth owning.

However, a lot of the text is transcriptions of Edgar Cayce's advice/sessions. If you already have access to Cayce's work, you may be disappointed if you'd expected 100% Shealy insights.

I'm not disparaging the content, just explaining why I was surprised -- and a little disappointed -- after my initial "ooh, COOL!" reaction to the opening of the book.

Shealy's advice and references are tremendous. And, I take seriously this clear endorsement by Shealy of Cayce's work.

Nevertheless, it's not quite the book I'd expected

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I'm sure many people respect the doctor, and have been helped my him. His role in holistic healing is apparently substantial. However, I find this book to be oddly confusing; certainly not inviting to sort out and read. Some simple definitions, then strange ramblings and examples, lists of traits, odd combos of numbers and letters heading up sections on various topics. I don't know, maybe I'll get something out of it. But it is indeed one of the strangest books on health and healing that I've come across in a long time.

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Handbook of Spirituality and Worldview in Clinical Practice 2 PDF | PDF | Sigmund Freud | Psychiatry

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Handbook of Spirituality and Worldview in Clinical Practice Paperback – 15 August 2004
by Allan M. Josephson (Editor), John Peteet (Editor), John R. Josephson, Allan M. and Peteet (Author)
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This refreshing new work is a practical overview of religious and spiritual issues in psychiatric assessment and treatment. Eleven distinguished contributors assert that everyone has a worldview and that these religious and spiritual variables can be collaborative partners of science, bringing critical insight to assessment and healing to treatment. Unlike other works in this field, which focus primarily on spiritual experience, this clearly written volume focuses on the cognitive aspects of belief and mdash;and how personal worldview affects the behavior of both patient and clinician. Informative case vignettes and discussions illustrate how assessment, formulation, and treatment principles can be incorporated within different worldviews, including practical clinical information on major faith traditions and on atheist and agnostic worldviews.The book's four main sections give concise yet comprehensive coverage of varying aspects of worldview: Conceptual Foundation and mdash;The Introduction explains the significance of worldview and its context in the development of psychiatry; reviews misunderstandings about spirituality and worldview and how they can be resolved in contemporary practice; and discusses Freud's significant influence on psychiatry's approach to religion and spirituality. Clinical Foundations and mdash;Three chapters review how clinicians can integrate spiritual and religious perspectives in the basic clinical processes of assessment (gathering a religious or spiritual history); diagnosis and case formulation (including religious and spiritual factors); and treatment (including a review of ethical issues). Patients and Their Traditions and mdash;Six chapters discuss Catholic and Protestant Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, and secularists (atheists and agnostics), including a brief history, clinical implications of core beliefs, and variations of therapeutic encounters (both where patient and clinician share the same faith and where they do not) for each faith tradition. Worldview and Culture and mdash;A concluding chapter reviews issues of a global culture where faiths once rarely encountered in North America are increasingly seen in clinical practice. This well-organized text sheds much-needed light on an area too often obscure to many clinicians, fostering a balanced integration of religion and spirituality in mental health training and practice. Bridging several disciplines in a novel way, this thought-provoking volume will find a diverse audience among mental health care students, educators, and professionals everywhere who seek to better integrate the religious and spiritual aspects of their patients' lives into assessment and treatment.

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This book could not have appeared ten years ago -- it is a tribute to progress in the field of spirituality and health that it appears now.... The volume should enable clinicians to adopt a more sympathetic approach to their patients' worldviews, especially if they differ from their own, but a greater self-awareness on the part of the physician is no less important.


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This work is a practical overview of religious and spiritual issues in psychiatric assessment and treatment. Eleven distinguished contributors assert that everyone has a worldview and that these religious and spiritual variables can be collaborative partners of science, bringing critical insight to assessment and healing to treatment.

Unlike other works in this field, which focus primarily on spiritual experience, this clearly written volume focuses on the cognitive aspects of belief--and how personal worldview affects the behavior of both patient and clinician. Informative case vignettes and discussions illustrate how assessment, formulation, and treatment principles can be applied within the different faith traditions of Catholic and Protestant Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, and secularists (atheists and agnostics).

This refreshing text sheds much-needed light on an area too often obscure to many clinicians. Bridging several disciplines in a novel way, this thought-provoking volume will find a diverse audience among mental health care students, educators, and professionals everywhere who seek to better integrate the religious and spiritual aspects of their patients' lives into assessment and treatment.

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Allan M. Josephson, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Bingham Child Guidance Center, Professor and Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky

John R. Peteet, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Clinical Director, Psychiatry, Adult Psychosocial Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Attending Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Tord Borgström
5.0 out of 5 stars Stimulating handbook - the broad concept of worldview captures knowledge highly relevant for every psychotherapistReviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 April 2015
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The religious situation in Sweden is different from that prevailing in the US. Nevertheless I found this book very interesting in its emphasis upon the broader concept of Worldview. Recommended reading for psychotherapists!

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Handbook of spirituality and worldview in clinical practice / 

[edited by] Allan M. Josephson, John R. Peteet.—1st ed.p.

 

Contents

Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

PART I

Conceptual Foundation

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Introduction: Definition and Significance of a Worldview . .3

 Armand M. Nicholi Jr., M.D.

PART II

Clinical Foundations

2

Worldview in Psychiatric Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

 Allan M. Josephson, M.D.Irving S. Wiesner, M.D.

3

Worldview in Diagnosis and Case Formulation. . . . . . . . .31

 Allan M. Josephson, M.D. John R. Peteet, M.D.

4

Therapeutic Implications of Worldview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

 John R. Peteet, M.D.

PART III Patients and Their Traditions

5

Protestant Christians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Mark E. Servis, M.D.

 

6

Catholic Christians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

 Judith Moss Hughes, M.D.

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Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

David Greenberg, M.A., M.B., B.Chir., M.R.C.Psych.Irving S. Wiesner, M.D.

8

Muslims. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Yousef Abou-Allaban, M.D.

9

Hindus and Buddhists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Nalini V. Juthani, M.D.

10

Atheists and Agnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Syed Atezaz Saeed, M.D.Richard L. Grant, M.D.

PART IV

Worldview and Culture

11

Worldview in Global Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Samuel B. Thielman, M.D., Ph.D.

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Principles and Themes in Yoga Therapy: An Introduction to Integrative Mind/Body Yoga Therapeutics eBook : Foulkes, James, Kogan, Mikhail, Barkworth, Simon: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store

Principles and Themes in Yoga Therapy: An Introduction to Integrative Mind/Body Yoga Therapeutics eBook : Foulkes, James, Kogan, Mikhail, Barkworth, Simon: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store

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Principles and Themes in Yoga Therapy: An Introduction to Integrative Mind/Body Yoga Therapeutics Kindle Edition
by James Foulkes (Author), Mikhail Kogan (Foreword), Simon Barkworth (Contributor) Format: Kindle Edition


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Yoga has become increasingly popular in mainstream culture, with varied interpretations of how it should be taught and practiced, and increased awareness of its beneficial effects as a healing modality. As a result, yoga therapy has emerged as an effective alternative approach to health and wellness. Explaining the principles and underpinning ideas presented by the yoga therapy movement, James Foulkes identifies the methods leading to the most effective practice.

Applying a principles-based approach, he explores the concept of delivering yoga therapeutically and discusses more complete ways of thinking about anatomy and the wholeness of the human being, using theories, illustrations, and case studies. Yoga therapy practitioners will learn to improve their work and more effectively support their clients.
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'This concise, considered, and informative book makes a valuable contribution to the library of Yoga Therapists. This book not only applies to Yoga therapists. It also gives a timely reminder to all yoga teachers, of the power and efficacy of the processes at their disposal, and given the tools, highlights the potential for healing and transformation on all levels.' - John Stirk, Yoga Teacher, Osteopath, Author of The Original Body --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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'This concise, considered, and informative book makes a valuable contribution to the library of Yoga Therapists. This book not only applies to Yoga therapists. It also gives a timely reminder to all yoga teachers, of the power and efficacy of the processes at their disposal, and given the tools, highlights the potential for healing and transformation on all levels.' - John Stirk, Yoga Teacher, Osteopath, Author of The Original Body --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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Dr Kogan is a leader in the newly-established field of Integrative Geriatrics. He is the chief editor of the first definitive textbook of the field entitled “Integrative Geriatric Medicine ”, published by Oxford University Press as part of Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Library series and is frequent speaker at a variety of international conferences on the topics of Integrative Medicine and Geriatrics, healthy aging, and geriatrics, as well as neurodegenerative diseases, and use of medical cannabis. Additionally, he has published in both Integrative and Geriatric topics in leading US-based journals.

Dr. Kogan is Associate Professor of Medicine at George Washington University where he serves as medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine (www.gwcim.com) and associate director of the Geriatrics Fellowship Program. He is also founder and executive director of AIM Health Institute, 501c3 non profit organization providing holistic and integrative services to larger DC area low income and vulnerable patients (healthaim.org)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for yoga practitioners, yoga therapists and anyone interested in true health and wellness.Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 3 December 2017
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As an aspiring yoga teacher, I was drawn to this book to understand the art of yoga therapy. Not only did I find prescription-free practical techniques, but also an approach that respects and honors the whole person and empowers individuals to connect with their bodies’ innate healing processes.

With Principles and Themes in Yoga Therapy, James Foulkes has presented an approach to yoga and yoga therapy that is deceptively simple, direct and powerful. This elegantly written book leaves space for the practitioner to inquire within and sense relationships within the physical body, within the mind, and how this interplay affects experience. It is a refreshing antidote to the way yoga has been mainstreamed in the West as an asana-focused, primarily physical experience. Yoga Therapy reminds us that the practice, and specifically, it’s therapeutic value is a highly personal experience in that the practitioner learns to trust the intelligence and wisdom of the body, and cultivates a healthy partnership with the body’s living, dynamic, changing nature.

As one reads the book, it feels like the transmission of a deeper wisdom is occurring. Reading a particular passage provides on its face an insight or piece of knowledge that continues to unfold not only in conceptual understanding, but also as one practices the principle through direct movement experience. This is the genius of the book. In providing an open framework of principles and themes, much like the physical framework of the body itself, each concept is further embodied in living experience. It’s an embodiment through the coordination of intention, attention, and awareness ultimately expressed into movement, which creates a profoundly different experience of yoga that allows for healing; healing that is initiated and expressed through the practitioner with the yoga therapist holding space for this unfoldment. I am discovering that this approach to yoga invites a sense of embodiment that feels sacred. It allows room for the practitioner to connect with and listen to their inner teacher, which cultivates a deep trust, knowing and understanding of one’s changing nature and needs, resulting in skillful response to each moment both on the mat, and off. This book is essential reading for yoga practitioners, yoga therapists and anyone interested in cultivating true health and wellness.
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5.0 out of 5 stars View of a healthcare provider and yoga therapy clientReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 5 October 2018
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James Foulkes delivers a resource for yoga therapists and those interested in the art of yoga therapy that is grounded in ancient traditions that we desperately need to integrate into our Western paradigm of healthcare. The book is built around chapters of themes or principles that build on each other and can be paired with each other with a sense of fluidity that mirrors the ever evolving yoga practice of any yoga practitioner. Case studies for each theme bring to light the therapeutic potential for each theme of the practice. A detailed description of a yoga practice for each theme allows the reader to embody the theme in a tangible way. James also includes a brief history of yoga therapy, a section focused on meaningful interactions and relationships with clients, and the importance of self care for the yoga therapist.
My suggestion for anyone studying yoga therapy is to follow James' guidance and take the book a chapter or theme at a time. Take notes, experience the practice, sleep on it, and revisit the theme again the next day. Look for recurring and compatible themes and don't be afraid to revisit old themes along the way. Each time I revisit a chapter or yoga practice, I feel that I pick up on something new that resonates with me.
As our healthcare system begins to acknowledge and accept the value of mind-body practices, I anticipate seeing more programs in hospitals built on the themes James presents here. Both as a therapy for patients with chronic medical conditions and chronic pain as well as a for preventative wellness therapy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Offering awareness and understanding of the process from withinReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 3 December 2017
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I pursued this book in large part looking for insights into how the practice of yoga has helped me along my life’s path – to find more freedom and ease physically and to negotiate life with more resilience. After experiencing talk therapy, I looked back and wondered how that process had yielded the emotional and psychological maturity I noticed. Similarly, I asked myself how this physical (asana) practice might lead to greater self-awareness and understanding? What is the connection between self-knowledge and healing?
This book offers insights into these and similar questions: in what ways can yoga be “therapeutic”? How can “yoga therapy” enhance one’s life off the mat? Beyond physical healing, how does yoga/yoga therapy encourage one to grow/develop emotionally and spiritually? Through words and imagery, case studies and suggested exercises, this book allows the reader to intuit some of these deeper mysteries of yoga.
As a yoga practitioner and teacher, though not a therapist myself, I found the themes and principles explored in the book helpful for enriching my personal practice and for opening up additional influences for the classes that I teach - by illustrating how to create a very internal yoga practice where the experience is not just about doing the postures but about the changes the postures may facilitate.
The book is accessible for a wide audience, firmly rooted in anatomy and physiology but not overly technical, and shedding light on the overlay of spirituality and energetics that imbue yoga practice. The author’s grasp of the material leaps off every page.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A book we can breatheReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 19 December 2020
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I am lucky enough to know James Foulkes. This truly gifted man is my favorite yoga instructor and one of my Qigong and martial arts instructors (and I am very demanding!). His book is like his yoga classes: mindful, slow, highly meditative, relaxing, regenerating, healing and awareness raising. Impactful in such a positive way! It says what is necessary, and also what is sufficient. The page layout, fonts and illustrations are part of the whole reading experience: you can breathe this book or sip it slowly ... and do that again and again ... and grow more in wisdom. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in growing up, cleaning up, waking up and showing up (as Ken Wilber says).
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource for students and teachersReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 29 October 2017
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This book discusses the principles underlying the practice of yoga in 15 short chapters. Each chapter presents a different theme, discusses how it relates to physical and mental health, and ends with a series of postures that encourages the reader to play with the theme in practice. The writing is clear and easy to follow. Throughout the book, the author emphasizes the importance learning to listen to one's body and to feel the internal effects of the postures and breath. Because of this emphasis, the book provides a simple yet powerful way for students of yoga to deepen their practice. At the same time, the book provides yoga teachers and yoga therapists with practical ideas for ways to help their students connect more fully with their bodies. The book ends with 7 additional chapters with further guidance for yoga therapists. On my first read-through I found this book to be an inspiring, insightful guide and I expect that I will learn more each time I return to it.

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