Mind Body Medicine

Do you suffer from an injury or chronic pain and need some relief? Do you want to do something that is natural and avoids taking medication? Many people who suffer from pain or injuries that are long-lasting, decide to move away from drugs as a solution to it. One of the most popular exercises to dealing with all manner of complaints is the practice of Pilates, a physical fitness system that was devised in the early 20th century and which has a proven track record that millions adhere to.

More than three decades ago, Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School proposed a theory in his multimillion-copy best seller The Relaxation Response, which stated that by calming the mind, one could calm the body and alleviate stress, pain, and illness.

Mindfulness offers a path to well-being and tools for coping with life's inevitable hurdles. And though mindfulness may sound exotic, you can cultivate it - and reap its proven benefits - without special training or lots of spare time. Trusted therapist and mindfulness expert Dr. Ronald Siegel shows exactly how in this inviting guide. You'll get effective strategies to use while driving to work, walking the dog, or washing the dishes, plus tips on creating a formal practice routine in as little as 20 minutes a day.

In the journey towards achieving restful and rejuvenating sleep, meditation stands out as a powerful and transformative tool. This book has explored a range of techniques and practices designed to help you cultivate a deeper, more restorative sleep experience. From understanding the foundational principles of deep sleep meditation to implementing specific strategies for overcoming common sleep challenges, the insights shared here aim to equip you with the knowledge and skills to improve your nightly rest.

Depression is not a disease. It is a symptom. Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use the world over, with 1 in 4 women starting their day with medication. These drugs have steadily become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, panic attacks, to insomnia...

Ready to stop feeling frustrated after countless attempts to heal that fell short? It’s time to experience something different! This book offers an actionable guide to somatic therapy, blending mind-body techniques for lasting relief. Inside, you will find: Easy exercises to reduce stress and anxiety. Simple techniques that soothe your nervous system and restore your body's sense of safety.

Harness the ancient Five Elements of Chinese Medicine to unlock your unique Adaptation Type, transforming stress into resilience and mastering cortisol management for holistic health. Power of the Five Elements is your evidence-based, comprehensive guide to better health and wellness. Dr. Charles Moss melds three decades of acupuncture expertise with the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine and delivers actionable insights, including the impact of cortisol—a key stress hormone linked to various health issues like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

For everyone seeking mental and physical harmony - whether in golf, tennis, martial arts, music, or everyday life - best selling author and world champion athlete Dan Millman shows in this revised and updated audio edition of his classic The Inner Athlete how to transform training into a path of personal growth and spiritual discovery.

This is not the meditation of yesterday. This cutting-edge advance in integrative medicine will help you live a healthier, pain-free, more balanced life.

Feeling stressed, scattered, and disconnected? Chronically anxious, tired, and wired? If you're looking to slow down, feel better, and find inner peace and balance in life, The Little Book of Grounding is for you. Karen Sibal presents 75-plus ways you can easily bring balance to your mind, body, and spirit using ancient Ayurvedic teachings blended with positive psychology principles, and she shows how they can be easily applied by anyone to restore their health.

Transform your health with Vagus Nerve Mastery Total Reset, the complete two-part audio program that teaches you how to activate and train your vagus nerve—the key to deep relaxation, emotional healing, and natural resilience. This powerful bundle combines Vagus Nerve Activation and Vagus Nerve Training into one comprehensive system. Narrated by author Grant Ryden, it delivers science-backed techniques to calm anxiety, reduce depression, release trauma, and restore balance to your nervous system—without medication.

Discover energy healing - find more balance and peace. Energy healing is the practice of manipulating the subtle energy flow in your body to improve the way you think and feel. The Little Book of Energy Healing Techniques is your introduction to the basics of energy healing, featuring a series of simple exercises you can do anytime. Heal your mind, body, and spirit, with clear and balanced energy that empowers you to live with greater peace and comfort.

I want you to imagine you're starting a new job, and you're very happy because it pays twice as much as your old job. But when you walk into the room, you see 96 small scales—each about the size of a quarter—and your job is to balance out all the scales. So what's the challenge? Well, what you discover is when you put a weight on scale 14, scale 32 goes down. When you put one on scale 16, scale 48 goes up. So as you try to balance all the scales, you begin to learn what causes what specific scale to go down and which scale or group of scales causes another scale to rise up.

Because rest isn’t just sleep—it’s healing. What if your bedtime routine became your most powerful form of self-care? What if sleep didn’t just end your day—but repaired you from it? Healing Sleep Meditation for Restoring the Mind and Body is more than background audio—it’s a curated, multilingual collection of guided meditations designed to calm your nervous system, quiet your thoughts, and invite deep emotional and physical restoration through sleep.

¿Sientes que no tienes suficiente energía? ¿Estás cansado de las interminables y estrictas dietas que no te dejan más que culpa y pocos resultados? ¿Consideras que podrías llevar tu vida con mejor humor?

Many antidepressants - the first line in our standard of care for treating depression - bring with them potential health risks, yet one in six Americans takes medication to alleviate feeling sad, anxious, stuck, or unable to focus or sleep. More and more, conventional medicine pathologizes how we respond to life's challenges - like feeling trapped in an unfulfilling job, grieving the death of a loved one, or being anxious about a bad relationship - telling us that they're symptoms of disease.

The Art of Vinyasa takes a unique look at Ashtanga yoga as meditation in motion that produces profound inner change. Two of the most well-respected teachers of the Ashtanga style of yoga, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, explore this rigorous practice not as a gymnastic feat but as a meditative form.

Everyone has something in their character or personality that they'd like to improve. Self-Hypnosis offers you a powerful resource for transformation that will help you remodel your life and turn it onto what you want it to be! Based on the readings of Edgar Cayce - the best known and...

This convenient, short-listen book investigates the role the mind/brain plays in preparation for, enduring, and recovering from invasive surgery. It specifically explores how the conscious mind can help a patient endure the experience and quickly heal. This is the ninth book in this series. The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of ten short-listen books that review latest thinking and research findings in Integrative Medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century.

Is stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter. But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant cultural history describes mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories, allowing us to make new sense of our suffering and to rationalize new treatments and lifestyles.