Your Body Believes Every Word You Say: The Language of the Body/Mind Connection
Author: Barbara Hoberman Levin
List of Self-Help Experiences
1. Practice in Self-Awareness Makes Perfect
2. Progressive Muscle Relaxation
3. The Pendulum
4. Developing Inner Peace and Harmonizing Your Thoughts
5. Is "Cancer" a Verb?
6. Questions for Patients with Catastrophic Illness
7. Giving Reasons
8. 21 Questions to Inventory Your Feelings
9. Choosing Thoughts: The Worry Wart Exercise
10. Self-Awareness
11. Changing Upsetting Thoughts
12. Mirror Feedback
13. Names as Seedthoughts
14. Witnessing Practice: Paying Attention to Yourself
15. Questions for Illness
16. Journal Writing
17. Verbal Hygiene I
18. Verbal Hygiene II-Group Seedthoughts
19. Verbal Hygiene III-Words That Wound & Words That Heal
20. Releasing Painful Emotion
21. I Believe...
22. Making Believe
23. Take a Stand
24. Recognizing and Re-Thinking Unhelpful Thoughts
25. Positive Expectations in Negative Situations
26. Helpful Reminders
27. Feedback On Your Style
28. Talking to Children
29. Creating Your Own Self-Help Manual
30. Understanding Pain Messages
31. The Truth Process
32. Relaxation Activities
33. Mindfulness Meditation
34. A Ten-Step Plan to Improve Your Life
35. Personal Prayers
36. Who's Responsible for Me?
37. Chanting Exercises
38. The Breath Prayer
39. Prayers to Memorize for Stressful Times
40. Silent Sitting Meditation
41. Linda Zelizer's Guidelines For Self-Hypnosis and Creating Affirmations
42. .Dr. Emmet Miller's Guidelines for Visualization
43. Biblical Scriptures A Affirmations and Change Agents
44. To Sleep, To Dream, To Remember
45. How to Work with Dreams
46 Writing Yourself to Wholeness
47 Visualization for Strengthening the Immune System
48 Changing Attitudes
49 The Daydreaming Exercise; Imaging to Help the Planet
50. Starting a Support Group-The Bliss Group
51. Laughter as Medicine
52. Prayers for Healing
53. 18 ideas for Living
What People Are Saying
Christiane Northrup
My twenty years of medical practice has confirmed the truth found in Your Body Believes Every Word You Say. Barbara's message is an eye-opener. (Christiane Northrup M. D., Author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom)
Steven Rosman
In simple, non-medical terminology, Levine's inspiring story demonstrates how, instead of remaining a passive victim, you can use illness as a tool for increased self-understanding and, ultimately, healing. (Rabbi Steven Rosman author of Jewish Healing Wisdom)
Bernie Siegel
Barbara Levine's journey is one of courage and growth. We can all learn from her experience. She shows us what we are capable of and how to achieve our full healing potential. (Bernie Siegel, M. D., Author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles)
Table of Contents:
| Chapter 1 | How I Came to Write This Book | 1 |
| The Brain Tumor: My Growth | ||
| Beginning to Heal | ||
| Gaining Perspective | ||
| Setbacks and Progress | ||
| New Perspective | ||
| Chapter 2 | The Fundamentals of Healing | 14 |
| Holistic Medicine | ||
| Ridding the Body of Disease-Causing Pollutants | ||
| Psychosomatics | ||
| Contemporary Mind-Body Perspectives | ||
| Emotion's Effect on the Body | ||
| Body and Mind: Functionally Inseparable | ||
| Thought Affects Physiology | ||
| Harnessing the Positive Power of Attitude | ||
| Chapter 3 | How We Think and Talk About Disease | 36 |
| Names as Symbols Evoke Images | ||
| The Advent of the Sinus Headache | ||
| Anorexia and Bulimia | ||
| Copy Cat Disease Syndrome | ||
| Hypertension | ||
| The Grammar of Disease | ||
| Ancient Wisdom of the Power of Words | ||
| Your Power to Influence Your Health | ||
| Chapter 4 | Responsibility and Creative Intelligence | 52 |
| Meaning and Reality | ||
| From Resistance to Acceptance of Reality | ||
| Unconscious and Conscious Awareness | ||
| Getting the Message Through Disease | ||
| We Are Not Victims | ||
| Chapter 5 | Core Beliefs and Seedthoughts | 68 |
| Core Beliefs and Seedthoughts | ||
| Flakes As Feedback | ||
| Our Internal Chatter | ||
| Decoding Sensations | ||
| Cliches As Emotional Expressions | ||
| Discovering Your Seedthoughts | ||
| Which Comes First, Chicken or Egg? | ||
| Chapter 6 | Emotion and Your Body's Language | 80 |
| Emotional Connections to the Past | ||
| You Are the Meaning Maker | ||
| A Rash Experience: Actions & Antidotes | ||
| Mind Over Matter | ||
| Chapter 7 | The Body As Emotional Barometer | 92 |
| Eating Right to Stay Fit | ||
| The Body Speaks Its Mind | ||
| Pow! That Emotion Just Zapped You | ||
| Chapter 8 | Cliches and Body Talk | 105 |
| Dangerous Seedthoughts | ||
| The Body's Messages | ||
| Mixed Messages | ||
| Rx: Positive Talk, Positive Thoughts, Positive Attitudes | ||
| Chapter 9 | Perceptions About Health and Disease | 124 |
| Beliefs and the Immune System | ||
| Flexible Thinking Creates Flexible Bodies | ||
| Hypnosis and Beliefs | ||
| Pre Menstrual Syndrome | ||
| I'm gonna Live Till I Die! | ||
| Chapter 10 | Mental Projection and Expectations | 140 |
| Self-Fulfilling Prophecies | ||
| Healing Conversations | ||
| Expectations Have Power | ||
| The Placebo Effect | ||
| Minding the Body | ||
| Media Messages Create Expectations | ||
| You Get What You Believe | ||
| Hope as Healer | ||
| Chapter 11 | The Operating Manual | 157 |
| Consciousness as Software | ||
| Feedback Prevents Breakdown | ||
| Flying Blind | ||
| Intrapersonal Communication | ||
| Interpersonal Communication | ||
| Body Messages | ||
| Technological Feedback | ||
| The Truth Process | ||
| Chapter 12 | Keys to the Good Health Kingdom | 175 |
| Intuition | ||
| Varieties of Meditation | ||
| Mindfulness | ||
| Moving Meditations | ||
| Prayer Heals | ||
| How You Can Use These Tools | ||
| Chapter 13 | Healing Techniques | 196 |
| Picturing What You Want | ||
| Polar Bears Can Chill Cancer | ||
| Software for the Mind | ||
| Affirmations | ||
| Preparation for Surgery | ||
| Hypnosis | ||
| Faith | ||
| Chapter 14 | Healing Through Dreamwork and Artwork | 213 |
| The Metaphorical Language of Sleep | ||
| Dreams Reveal, Not Conceal | ||
| Interpret Dreams with Caution | ||
| Dr. Bernie Siegel--Teacher/Healer/Dreamworker | ||
| Dreams and Spontaneous Drawings by Bernie & Barbara Siegel | ||
| Dreams | ||
| I Turn to Drawings | ||
| Predicting the Results of Treatment | ||
| Improving the Effects of Treatment | ||
| Dreams Guide Treatment | ||
| Chapter 15 | Creating a New Context: Healing from Within | 228 |
| Why Am I Sick? Because... | ||
| Tumors and Diabetes | ||
| Backbone | ||
| The Authentic You | ||
| Creating a Health-Full Context | ||
| Forgiveness: How Do I Forgive? | ||
| Chapter 16 | Keys to My Survival | 242 |
| 36 Core Beliefs | ||
| Epilog | 258 | |
| End Notes | 274 | |
| Recommended Reading | 280 | |
| Resources | 286 | |
| Index | 294 | |
| About the Author | 301 |
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