- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Thorsons; 2nd Revised edition edition (5 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 186204080X
- ISBN-13: 978-1862040809
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 684,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Based on the idea that a patient brings about their own illness, this book suggests that symptoms are expressions of psychological conflicts, and can only be healed when the patient is aware of what is behind the problem. The book covers the meaning of specific symptoms, covering various systems such as respiration and digestion, and illnesses ranging from cancer to varicose veins. In each case, the authors explore the mindset that precipitates the symptom, and suggest new perspectives which can induce healing.
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
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A modern view of an ancient philosophy on illness.,
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This review is from: The Healing Power of Illness: The Meaning of Symptoms and How to Interpret Them (Paperback)
I found this this book to be a very clear and direct explanation of why we become ill or injured. Everything we experience in life can be explained as being the direct result of what we believe, consciously and unconsciously. Our shadow-side or unconscious (in need of healing) reveals itself to us through our symptoms and when we have the courage to explore rather than supress those symtoms we begin to heal ourselves at the source of our dis-ease. This book not only gives a detailed reasoning of the compassionate structure underlying illness but also includes methods for discovering and interpreting symptoms in a supportive fashion, leading to a realization and harmony using the illness iself to heal the cause. The way of thinking presented in this book can help to prevent serious illness by helping us to understand the meaning of minor symptoms before more serious ones are needed to get our attention. The questions put forward also offer ways to find the gift, understanding, or support inherent in all crisis. The information in this book can transform the human experience.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Look within yourself to heal the emotions,
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This review is from: The Healing Power of Illness; The Meaning of Symptoms and How to Interpret Them (Paperback)
For those who are ready to look within and want to know why something happens to them , why they get diseases, how to interpret them, and more importantly to take ownership and responsibility for their illness, rather than blaming germs, viruses, genes. It deals with how mental inclinations lead to illness and shows means to have power over illness
The style of the authors is honest, blunt, and to the point.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is only for those prepared for a paradigm shift,
By Girton Seeker (Cambridge) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Healing Power of Illness; The Meaning of Symptoms and How to Interpret Them (Paperback)
This book should be a `vade mecum' for anyone seriously seeking an answer to the existential questions: "Who am I", and "Why are we here?" The title reveals its main theme, namely that illness is in our nature and that the causes of illness always lie in the human consciousness (the invisible), and, through the symptoms, is made manifest into our body/mind - (the visible). Transcending the material world - the only world that it understands and can deal with, the modern western medicine, unable to deal with the causes, ignores them. Instead, mesmerised by the symptoms, its efforts are directed solely to interfering with these symptoms, only to find that, sooner or later, they start to reappear, again and again, in a different and progressively more serious form. This book is only for you is you are a genuine seeker of truth - prepared to challenge the current view of the medical establishment, the view that we, humans, are nothing but the sophisticated machines who could be repaired by the `magic bullets'.
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