Return to Wholeness
Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer
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- 19,99 €
Publisher Description
"Beautiful. . . . If you are facing cancer or any other serious illness, I encourage you to allow the wisdom contained within these pages to nurture, guide, and support you."-Deepak Chopra, M.D., from his foreword
Return to Wholeness is a revelation. David Simon breaks new ground with the innovative, holistic mind-body approaches developed at the Chopra Center for Well Being. The guiding theme in this book is wholeness, as Dr. Simon demonstrates to readers the value of integrating the best of traditional and alternative medicines with ancient Eastern, Ayurvedic principles and practices in order to forge the most effective path to wellness.
Return to Wholeness features advice and recommendations on every aspect of living with illness, including designing a simple nutritional program to purify, rejuvenate, and provide balance; benefiting from the healing properties of vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and herbs; facing the toll exacted by chemotherapy and other medical techniques; incorporating various kinds of meditation, creative visualization, and aromatherapy into the larger Return to Wholeness program; and weathering emotional cycles through art therapy, journaling, laughter, and music.
"Return to Wholeness is magnificent. Reading this book made me feel embraced and uplifted by all that is healing and true. Return to Wholeness should be kept on the nightstand of everyone who has cancer or another illness or who is afraid of becoming ill." - Christiane Northrup, M.D. author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"Return to Wholeness is the perfect book for anyone facing the diagnosis of cancer. . . . Powerful, powerful teachings you will not read elsewhere from a medical doctor." -Wayne Dyer, Ph.D., author of Manifest Your Destiny
"Gentle, compassionate, and yet thorough . . . a book that awakens the inner healer in all of us." - Louise L. Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life
"An excellent source of information and guidance to help one integrate one's life and approach to cancer."
-Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles
"In every great challenge of life, we need guides who can show us the way. Dr. David Simon is a wise, compassionate physician who can help anyone on the journey through the experience of cancer." -Larry Dossey, M.D. author of Prayer Is Good Medicine and Healing Words
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Simon, a neurologist by training and director of the Chopra Center for Well Being, invites cancer patients to acknowledge the unity of their physical, emotional and spiritual selves in order to become more active, effective participants in their own healing. Simon begins with a refreshingly accessible discussion of the mechanics of cancer, then reviews a spectrum of healing techniques including enhanced nutrition, visualization, medication, journal writing and expressive movement. While the book's message can be applied to all forms of the disease, the mind-body relationship in breast, prostate and colon cancer is discussed in detail; one useful chapter helps readers sensibly assess experimental treatments. Though Simon cites the Indian tradition of Ayurveda as inspiration for his holistic approach, the book is devoid of jargon or agenda and is supportive of Western treatment as well as less drastic interventions. The author's reasonable, calmly intelligent voice is the book's great strength--with his compassion for the confusion as well as the pain cancer causes, and his humility in the face of the mysteries of illness and health, Simon sounds like the family doctor most of us would love to have. While the book may be too general for readers already familiar with holistic approaches and offers little new information, it provides an excellent overview for those pushed by cancer's crisis to consider new alternatives in healing.
