The Meditation Doctor: A Practical Approach to Healing Common Ailments Through Meditation

This book's author, an experienced meditation teacher, describes how meditation can be used to complement standard medical procedures, improving physical health and helping to eliminate stress-related problems. She introduces readers to fundamental principles of self-healing, awareness-building, and creative imagery as techniques for reducing physi-cal pain and emotional distress. Techniques she discusses in detail include body postures, hand positions, breath control, and the Chakra system, among others. She advises on spe-cific meditation solutions to relieve back pain, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, low-grade fevers, colds and flu, respiratory disorders, and digestive problems. She also recommends meditation for emotional problems including anger management, depression, and build-ing self-esteem. Meditation is explained as being useful to enhance life's good and nor-mal aspects, such as the sex and creativity drives. Filled with practical advice and sugges-tions, The Meditation Doctor is a fine resource book for all who are interested in explor-ing the many benefits of meditation therapy.

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Basic breath and mindfulness techniques introduce you to the fundamentals of meditation



Guided techniques will help you tap into your body's natural healing abilities



An easy-to-use index allows lets you look up common ailments and find therapeutic techniques to help alleviate symptoms



Today more than ever, physicians and psychiatrists are prescribing relaxation and meditation techniques as alternative treatments . Many individuals are also seeking different avenues to relieve stress and improve their general health.



The Meditation Doctor combines Eastern and Western meditative practices and encourages you to participate in a journey of exploration and restoration. It introduces self-healing, awareness building and creative imagery techniques to promote well being. This book is an excellent resource for relieving physical pain and psychological anxiety through the power of meditation.