Peace, Love and Healing - by Bernie S Siegel (Paperback)

About the Book

By revealing how the body can be more receptive to the messages of the m ind, Peace, Love & Healing lets us take greater control of our state of mind, state of health, and state of being. Dr. Siegel challenges us, whether we are ill or well, to recognize how our mind influences our body and teaches us how to talk to our inner selves.

Book Synopsis

A classic of patient empowerment, Peace, Love & Healing offered the revolutionary message that we have an innate ability to heal ourselves. Now proven by numerous scientific studies, the connection between our minds and our bodies has been increasingly accepted as fact throughout the mainstream medical community. In a new introduction, Dr. Bernie Siegel highligths current research on the relationships among consciousness, psychosocial factors, attitude and immune function.

"Love and peace of mind do protect us," Siegel writes. "They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive...to live now...to have the courage to confront each day."

Review Quotes

"The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness....Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition."-- Norman Cousins"I was enthralled with this book. Once into it, I could not stop reading until I had finished...It is a truly great book...[that] combines sound thought with captivating humor."-- Norman Vincent Pearle"Bernie Siegel [is] a doctor who loves. In this age of massive, impersonal medical technology, his advocacy of human caring is a necessity."-- Larry LeShan, Ph.D., author of "Cancer as a Turning Point"