Spirit Body Healing: Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within

by Michael Samuels

a revolutionary program designed to heal and inspire

"Healing is a creative process. These heartfelt stories and beautiful visualizations inspire the reader to see all life as a healing journey."


–David Simon, M.D., Medical Director of the Chopra Center for


Well Being and author of the Nautilus Award-winning Vital Energy


and Return to Wholeness

"Dr. Michael Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring."


–Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles

"Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every person's healing journey."


–Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for


Reversing Heart Disease

Based on a landmark seven-year study, Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center. Through visualizations, meditations, and exercises to increase your creativity, Dr. Michael Samuels and Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane teach you the eight steps of spiritual healing. In this book, you will discover how to get in touch with your own spirit as a path to healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illness. Filled with inspiring, beautifully written stories, Spirit Body Healing offers practical, proven methods that you and your loved ones can use to create immediate positive changes in your lives.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Michael Samuels, MD, is the co-founder and director of Arts as a Healing Force. He teaches at San Francisco State University's Institute of Holistic Studies and is the author of 22 books including the bestsellers The Well Body Book, Seeing with the Mind's Eye, and The Well Baby Book.