Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

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I thought the author did a lovely job of outlining the importance of stress and its impact on health. An interesting book written in an enthusiastic style by an author who has experienced healing in her own body by changing her lifestyle and her thinking. She has gone from being well embedded in the traditional system to the opposite - it's a shame there is no middle ground.

There are many instances where people have felt better at a church service, only to leave then feel like they did before. Maybe more work needs to be carried out to assess whether we are seeing cause and effect here – or something else but the studies the author quotes from are at the very least persuasive. For years, pioneers in the medical community have been extolling the virtues of the mind's power to heal the body. and instead of raving about this for a long time as I planned to do , I'll just note that along her excited efforts to help, she forgot that until we figure out a way to get all human beings to be born under the same conditions, and with the same abilities mentalities fears and desires, defining happiness, narrowing it, nothing has caused more stress and despair than that.g. nuns – and the optimists amongst them lived several years longer than the pessimists and had fewer illnesses and health problems. I don't believe for one moment that is the case, and it is more likely that the faith helps certain people, not because of the faith itself, but because of the way the body works.

I just felt like the same concepts were written about over and over again and that many chapters could have been a lot shorter. However, I found her overtures to standard medicine a little hollow, like when I was still trying to convince my parents that I was straight.The book started off with an interesting collection of studies with scientific results that supported this relationship. Rankin makes it clear that miracles cannot be counted upon, but presents credible evidence that diligent efforts to be mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy can often translate into much better physical health as well. Many of us know about Anita Moojani’s miraculous recovery from end-stage lymphoma weeks after having a near-death experience.