Today everyone is sick or has some kind of disorder. You get a symptom and go see a doctor but what do they do, they treat the symptom and send you on your way. A month or two goes by and now you have to go back becasue the new drug you are on is causing you to have a symptom. The doctor changes drugs and sends you on your way. Its a vicious cycle that cannot be broken. You cannot fix the problem with a problem. The health care and the medical field today is not working. They are just getting richer on behalf of our health. Is their another way I sure hope so. The book Soul Medicine, Awakening Your Inner Blueprint for Abundant Health and Energy, by Norman Shealy, M.D., PH.D. and Dawson Church, P.H.D is just the answer I am looking for and I am sure you are too.
 
The book takes a close look into the human spirit and revels that the answers are all there for us to understand and use. They show that the consciousness holds the key to our health. A whole society can be healthy and live freely without the burden of sickness and depression if they just unlock and change their energy awarness. Read through this entire book and use it as a guide to unlock your true self, a healthy more lively self.

Accupuncture, acupressure, shiatsu. aromatherapy, meditation, reiki, prayer, faith healing,  light and color therapy, Ayurveda are just to name a few are ways to start your new mind set and begin your healing. These methods have been around since the beginning of time and have worked since then. These methods are what we need to get back to if we truly want to be healed and happy. The book also looks into all religions and faiths to see their take on health and healing.

I recommend this book to anyone who is tired of the same old doctor visits that never really help anyway. To anyone who is ready to be healed and to live a life of energy and happiness. This book will open your eyes to all the possibilities that are there for you to use everyday. The key is inside you, the spirit of who you are.

Reviewed on 12/13/2010 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Jessica Williams

Reviewed on 03/25/2010 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Kathleen Albertson

With worldwide health crises’ occurring almost daily a new approach if definitely needed. Soul medicine is intriguing, engaging, and full of helpful advice to the open-minded.

Through their own examples, authors Shealy, a neurosurgeon, and Church a health researcher, show us how we can all access such healing and improve our lives.

This book shines the light on a lot of medical practices ranging from the ancient to the modern.

A definite must read for those interested in alternative therapies.

Shealy, himself checks out the therapies he recommends on himself, to the extent possible, and is living proof of his own word by looking younger and healthier each year.

Church contributes personal and researched understanding of the spiritual side of healing; including several startling physical healings effected personally through spiritual healing.

This book is not written in complicated medical explanations, nor with large unpronounceable words oft found in the medical area.

Soul medicine looks at not only suggested treatments for ailments, but also the causes for them. The underlying reasons our souls are not well; from environmental to physical and mental, whatever the reason.

Reviewed on 02/14/2010 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Tina Evans

SOUL MEDICINE

Awakening Your Inner Blueprint for Abundant Health and Energy

Norman Shealy, M.D., PH.D. & Dawson Church, PH.D.

Santa Rosa, CA: Energy Psychology Press, 2008

In North America, where there is much talk of the healthcare crisis, we clearly need a new paradigm. Many cultures today, including some branches of so-called Western medicine, are beginning to recognize that healing the body is essentially connected with healing the mind, the emotions and the spirit. Research into the ancient history of sacred healing explains how this works and how the contemporary healer can apply these principles, often reducing the need for invasive surgeries and powerful drugs.

As a cancer survivor, I found Soul Medicine to be an inspiring book that offers hope as it describes energy healing and its applications for the average reader. It is a particularly encouraging read for anyone who is grappling with chronic illness, simply interested in good health, or who is care taking a suffering friend or family member. Western medicine has limits and a new consciousness can often take us beyond those limits. Through their own clinical examples, authors Shealy and Church, a neurosurgeon and health researcher respectively, show us how we can all access such healing and improve our lives. They also cite clinical studies that show improved recovery time and greater instances of complete healing in surgical patients who are given various forms of energy healing, once their allopathic treatment is completed.

In spite of the research and thousands of anecdotal accounts, the authors point out that Western medicine is slow to recognize or even acknowledge what many patients know to be true – that the body is made to heal and that each of us has an “inner blueprint” that will take us back to physical health, if the mind and spirit receive the right kind of support. One section of the book is devoted to actions the authors believe will accelerate the pace of change and how soul medicine will look in the future.

They write:

“The pendulum has only begun its swing in the direction of soul medicine. The forces adding momentum to its movement are the exhaustion of the old system, its impossible costs, its inability to treat many systemic conditions, its lack of soul, and the enthusiasm of patients for soul medicine.”

This book, while definitely engaging for the average reader, is actually the prescription for our healthcare crisis. It ought to be required reading for our government health departments, doctors and medical students as well.

Reviewed on 08/28/2009 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Carol Upton