Healing With Mind Power: Total Health and Tranquillity Through Guided Self-Hypnosis

by Richard L. Shames, Chuck Sterin

Step-by-step instructions guide readers in inducing hypnosis and using the techniques of self-hypnosis and posthypnotic suggestions to solve personal health problems

182 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1978

About the author

Richard graduated Harvard and University of Pennsylvania, did research at the National Institutes of Health with Nobel Prize winner Marshall Nirenberg, and has been in private practice for twenty five years. In addition to his medical office work, he has been a member of the Clinical Faculty of the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, a founding member of the American Holistic Medical Association, a participant in the Carl Menninger Foundation, and a member of Who's Who in California as well as nationally. He has served as Adjunct Faculty at Florida Atlantic University.

Karilee Halo Shames R.N., Ph.D.

Karilee is a Clinical Specialist in Psychiatric Nursing and a Certified Holistic Nurse with a PhD. in Holistic Studies. She has maintained a private practice in collaboration with Dr. Richard Shames for twenty years, specializing in comprehensive treatment aspects of energy-depletion illnesses."

Reviews

[Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a simple but enjoyable companion. Fairly fast-paced to read. Written in the seventies, some of the examples the authors use are comically dated, but the messages are consistently relevant. This book suggests that illness is often the body's way of crying out for positive change, and that you can prevent or help cure physical or mental illnesses by taking the time to speak to yourself and your body, listen to what it needs, and picture in your mind the change you want to achieve, thus 'fooling' the brain into sending out those signals. Of course, they're not implying you should shun or discontinue actual medical aids, but that hypnosis can help to speed these processes along.

They provide helpful descriptions of how to induce the hypnotic state, which sounds very nice and relaxing and similar to meditation. Even if you don't use it for personal suggestion and simply for the relaxing of the mind, you're probably in improved health already.

Reading this book was like being reminded of things my body has long known but that I (and many of us) had failed to fully realize consciously. I have to say I have not yet tried hypnosis for myself, but I learned a lot regardless from reading this book. I cannot comment on how effective their induction methods are, but I can say it was refreshing to remind myself of the importance of having a healthy state of mind and holding frequent meetings with my inner self. Just from reading I've been feeling better!