Spirit Body Healing: Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within

Spirit Body Healing is filled with the truth about how spirit--and the creativity through which it is expressed--can heal us. I was very moved by this powerful book. --Christiane Northrup MD author of Womens Bodies Womens Wisdom Dr. Michael Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring. --Bernie Siegel MD author of Love Medicine and Miracles In this tender and caring book we are reminded that healing is a creative process. These heartfelt stories and beautiful visualizations inspire the reader to see all life as a healing journey. --David Simon MD Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Well Being; author of Vital Energy and Return to Wholeness Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every persons healing journey. --Dean Ornish MD author of Dr. Dean Ornishs Program for Reversing Heart Disease Based on a landmark seven-year study Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center. Through visualizations meditations and exercises to increase your creativity Dr. Michael Samuels and Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane teach you the eight steps of spiritual healing. In this book you will discover how to get in touch with your own spirit as a path to healing physical emotional and spiritual illness. Filled with inspiring beautifully written stories Spirit Body Healing offers practical proven methods that you and your loved ones can use to create immediate positive changes in your lives. Michael Samuels MD has used art and guided imagery with cancer patients for over twenty-five years. He is the founder and director of Art as a Healing Force a project devoted to incorporating art with healing. He teaches art and healing at San Francisco State University and John F. Kennedy University. The author of fourteen books he gained national acclaim with his best-selling Well Body Book Well Baby Book Well Pregnancy Book and Seeing with the Minds Eye. Mary Rockwood Lane RN PhD is the co-founder and director emeritus of the Arts in Medicine program at the University of Florida Gainesville. She is now Associate Professor of Nursing at the College of Nursing University of Florida where she teaches Creativity and Spirituality in Healthcare. Her books (with Samuels) include Shaman Wisdom Shaman Healing and Creative Healing.