Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery - Softcover

Gerald Epstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553346237 ISBN 13: 9780553346237

Publisher: Bantam, 1989

Synopsis

The comprehensive guide to imagery therapy for: the common cold, bone fractures, arthritis, hypertension, headaches, asthma, infertility, depression, pms, anxiety, obesity, and much more
 
For years it has been widely known that the mind exerts a tremendous influence on our physical well-being—often determining the difference between health and disease. In Healing Visualizations, Dr. Gerald Epstein, a psychiatrist and pioneer in waking dream therapy, provides a new vision of how the mind can help heal the body through the power of “imaginal medicine.”
 
Developed over fifteen years of clinical practice, Dr. Epstein’s safe, potent techniques for tapping the mind’s healing energy enable us to influence our own health with remarkably fast, positive results. More than seventy-five exercises cover specific health problems form common ailments such as allergies, colds, backaches, headaches, and arthritis to life-threatening illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Each exercise takes just one to five minutes. And there are special visualizations for overall wellness that you can personalize to fit your own daily health and fitness needs.
 
A revolutionary and inspiring program, Healing Visualizations is a major contribution to understanding, restoring, and maintaining the healthful unity of body and mind.

About this title

About the Author

Gerald Epstein, M.D., has been a pioneer in the use of mental imagery for treating physical and emotional problems. With more that 25 years of training in the mind, he is a leading proponent of the Western spiritual tradition and its application to healing and therapeutics. Dr. Epstein maintains a private practice in New York City and is a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York's Mt. Sinai Medical Center. He has lectured and taught worldwide and is the director of the American Institute for Mental Imagery (AIMI), a post-graduate training center in imagination for licensed mental health professionals as well as an educational forum for the public. He is also the recipient of a National Institutes of Health Grant in Alternative Medicine to research the effects of mental imagery in the treatment of bronchial asthma. He was initiated into Visionary Kabbalah by his teacher Colette Aboulker-Muscat. Dr. Epstein has authored several mental imagery classic books and cds including: Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery, Healing Into Immortality, The Phoenix Process, Kabbalah For Inner Peaceand The Natural Laws of Self-Healing.

From the Back Cover

THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO IMAGERY THERAPY FOR:
THE COMMON COLD; BONE FRACTURES;
ARTHRITIS; HYPERTENSION; HEADACHES; ASTHMA; INFERTILITY; DEPRESSION; PMS; ANXIETY; OBESITY; AND MUCH MORE

For years it has been widely known that the mind exerts a tremendous influenceon our physical well-being-often determining the difference between health and disease. In Healing Visualizations, Dr. Gerald Epstein, a psychiatrist and pioneer in waking dream therapy, provides a new vision of how the mind can help heal the body through the power of "imaginal medicine.
Developed over 35 years of clinical practice, Dr. Epstein's safe, potent techniques for tapping the mind's healing energy enable us to influence our own health with remarkably fast, positive results. More than seventy-five exercises cover specific health problems from common ailments such as allergies, colds, backaches, headaches, and arthritis to life-threatening illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Each exercise takes just one to five minutes. And there are special visualizations for overall wellness that you can personalizeto fit your own daily health and fitness needs.
A revolutionary and inspiring program, Healing Visualizations is a major contribution to understanding, restoring, and maintaining the healthful unity of body and mind.

'An extraordinarily useful and practical guide, which draws upon the most recent scientific evidence to develop innovative optimal health practices:'
--Kenneth Pelletier, M.D., author of Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer

Reviews

Psychoanalyst Epstein became intrigued with the curative powers of mental imagery through the influence of Mme. Colette Aboukler-Muscat while in Jerusalem in 1974. Having mastered the techniques of "waking dream therapy," which postulates the unity of mind and body, he espouses visual imagery, "the thinking used for making contact with our inner subjective reality" for curing both physical and emotional problems. Much of this book contains specific instructions for evoking the appropriate imagery to cure afflictions ranging from acne to warts, and including cancer, hemorrhoids, and scoliosis. A separate chapter focuses on imagery for promoting good health. The book includes pointers for developing successful imaging techniques and will appeal to those readers interested in alternative medical practices.
- Carol R. Glatt, Northeastern Hosp. of Philadelphia
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553346237
• ISBN 13: 9780553346237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226