Hands of Life : An Energy Healer Reveals the Secrets of Using Your Body's Own Energy Medicine for Healing, Recovery and Transformation

by Julie Motz

Julie Motz takes us on an extraordinary journey into a revolutionary form of healing. Five months after she began treating patients recuperating from open-heart surgery, she became a pioneer, crossing into uncharted territory--the first alternative healer to work on a surgical patient whose dying heart was being replaced with a new one. Inside that operating room, her own experience of healing would be completely transformed and redefined....

This remarkable book chronicles Julie Motz's uncommon mission to bring alternative methods of healing to the country's most prestigious hospitals. Invited by a young heart surgeon, she began working with patients undergoing radical lifesaving procedures. As she sensed the traumas and unresolved emotions that contributed to their suffering, she helped them release fear and anger, to begin healing both body and soul.

This breakthrough form of healing draws on Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine, treating the body and spirit as an interconnected whole. Julie Motz shows how strong emotion affects our bodies, creating energy imbalances that can lead to illness if unaddressed. And as she offers her deep compassion to the people under her care, she shows us how to care for ourselves as with patience and love, without judgment. She teaches us the role of the systems of our bodies in processing emotion, and how we can detoxify anger and fear, whether past or present. And she makes a persuasive case for allowing feeling into the sterile world of the O.R.

Hands of Life offers a stunning new view of the synthesis of high-tech medicine and ancient healing wisdom, presenting powerful evidence of the role of the spirit in matters of life and death. It is a book that urges us all to find deeper understanding of our bodies and enter the mysteries of our flesh with curiosity and wonder instead of passivity and fear.

Genres: Health, Spirituality, Science

320 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent account of energy healing by a very talented healer who worked with surgeons in operating rooms, connecting physical illnesses with their emotionally-related issues.

[Lisaannhomic · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put this down. I read it at every free moment until finished.

[Patricia N. McLaughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book chronicles Motz’s use of alternative healing methods in hospital settings to help patients heal the traumas and unresolved emotions that create energy imbalances in the body that lead to health problems. Motz’s method draws on Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine to treat the body-mind-spirit as an interconnected whole. Motz offers numerous case studies of how patients addressed unresolved emotions and retraced trauma to release disease from the body and effect seemingly miraculous healings.

[Addy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book and the insights into energy work and healing. She doesn't teach you energy healing, but does take you through how she started her practice with the now-famous Dr. Oz and other hospitals and surgeons. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in energy healing/alternative medicine. It was quite the fascinating read.

[Sue Gaunt · Rating 3 out of 5]

I valued some of this book but there were ideas that went too far for me.

[Sandra Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Julie's story encouraged me to pay closer attention to my own intuition. She is pretty remarkable.

[Kelly Savoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating Read

What an incredible journey. This book makes sense out of how to express what energy healing is truly about. Beautifully written. I couldn’t put it down.

[Heidi Maricle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very interesting book that challenged a lot of the "western" paradigm of medicine that I have had. It was also very good at explaining how energy healing works and conveyed what an energy healer does and feels when they are helping someone. Very interesting concepts about our emotions being stored in our body and organs-even emotions stored from our parents passed on to us through conception. Julie worked with cancer patients and would help them before, during and after surgeries. The many stories are quite amazing with the emotional causes behind the cancer. I recommend this book-readers need to keep a very open mind as the paradigm of health is very different than what we are used to.

[Sally · Rating 4 out of 5]

WAY before Dr Mehemet Oz was introduced to us all by Oprah this energy practitioner,Julie Motz, worked along side Dr Oz as he did heart transplants etc. Gives a very enlarged & fascinating perspective on it all. The fact that Dr Oz was open to this kind of help WAY BACK THEN, when this aspect was mostly being laughed at, says a lot for his openness. I won't forget how much attitudes have changed in recent years.

[Syrena · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was fascinating to me. As is the art of healing energy. It gave me a glimpse inside the OR to experience the hope and belief a patient has to overpower the death grips of such disease as cancer. To hear real stories like these reinforces the power of holistic healing medicine.

[Tina]

learned a ton from this book even though it didn't teach methods at all. good read.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

top 5 2000

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beyond brilliant! What a fabulous wealth of information, sense of caring and brilliance this author brings to our health care system. Bravo!