Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance - Softcover

Oschman PhD, James L.

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Synopsis

This book brings into focus the wide variety of emerging information on energy medicine, and explores mechanisms by which mind and body processes influence the body's healing and performance potential. The author draws on information from an extraordinary range of sources - from physiology and biophysics, to examples drawn from the realms of spontaneous healing, cutting edge athletic and artistic performance, the martial arts, and various contemplative and spiritual practices.In this book, the author focuses on the roles of electrons, electromagnetic fields, and related energetic and quantum processes, the properties of space, and consciousness itself. Both readers with no previous knowledge of this subject area and those who have studied it in some detail will find insights here which are exciting, illuminating and will directly help their own therapeutic practice and performance potential.

  • Provides an understanding of the nature of energy medicine by exploring science and common experience
  • Explains complex scientific concepts in ways that are both vivid and easy to grasp
  • Connects abstract theories with practical applications
  • Addresses technical detail in a manner that allows readers from different backgrounds and with different depths of experience to choose their own level of access
  • Includes detailed references with cutting-edge research and time-tested studies for the most well rounded perspective on the subject
  • Written by a well-known and highly respected author in this complex and emerging field of study
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    About the Author

    James L. Oschman, PhD, Previously Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurobiology Lab, VA Hospital, Pittsburgh; Visiting Scientist, Dept of Zoology, Cambridge University, UK; Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Postdoctoral Fellow Inst of Biological Chemistry, University of Copenhagen; Asst Prof of Biological Sciences and Director of Electron Microscope Lab, Northwestern University, Illinois; faculty member and lecturer in anatomy and physiology at Rolf Institute, Boulder, Colorado; served as Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Acting President and member of Faculty at New England School of Acupuncture.

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