Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
From amazon..." We’ve been led to believe that when we get sick, it’s our genetics. Or it’s just bad luck—and doctors alone hold the keys to optimal health. For years, Lissa Rankin, M.D., believed the same. But when her own health started to suffer, and she turned to Western medical treatments, she found that they not only failed to help; they made her worse. So she decided to take matters into her own hands. Through her research, Dr. Rankin discovered that the health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body’s innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms with the power of the mind. In an attempt to better understand this phenomenon, she explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years. Using extraordinary cases of spontaneous healing, Dr. Rankin shows how thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can alter the body’s physiology. She lays out the scientific data proving that loneliness, pessimism, depression, fear, and anxiety damage the body, while intimate relationships, gratitude, meditation, sex, and authentic self-expression flip on the body’s self-healing processes."I enjoyed reading this book - good info - though at times, a bit simplistic and repetitive. Should be a must-read for anyone going to medical school as well as the general public! The author makes connections between a persons overall happiness and their health, which is understandable. She backs up this information with many studies, some of which I had a hard time believing were not biased. Later she gives advice on how to achieve an improved mental state which include all obvious suggestions that are so generic that they are not attainable by most people. For example her suggestion to quit your job if unhappy with what you are doing is not something most can do. A few tidbits in the beginning were interesting, but overall I was not impressed, informed, or inspired.
What do You think about Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself (2013)?
Amazing book I need to re-read the last chapter to put in practice.
—daniellexm
Such an interesting book and one I turn to over and over again
—gromble
It was good...didnt finish, but will return to it.
—Dylan
