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Die heilende Kraft der Emotionen
Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive explanation of how to unlock the hidden power within every one of us. This power, our LIFE ENERGY, determines our mental and physical states -- and Dr. John Diamond shows how to unleash this energy.
You can use LIFE ENERGY to:
* Lead a more productive, creative, and happy life
* Achieve your full potential
* Deal positively with mental and physical stress
* Reduce negative emotional states (hatred, anger, jealousy etc.) and increase positive emotions (love, faith, courage etc.)
* Prevent and overcome illness and maintain good health
* Look younger as you learn to erase the lines of self-doubt and unhappiness from your face
Dr. Diamond's discovery of how to release LIFE ENERGY is based on the twelve acupuncture meridians, each of which relates to a specific emotional state. Using the simple muscle test described in this book, you can assess these emotional states in yourself or anyone else. Then, by practising a short daily meditational program, you will keep your emotions and meridians balanced so that you achieve maximum LIFE ENERGY and enjoy mental and physical well-being and harmony every day of your life.
One of the most important medical books of the twentieth century, a ground-breaking classic that has never been out of print since it first appeared in 1983, and which remains as relevant today as ever. Essential reading for anyone interested in holistic health, psychology and the relation between the two.
Some comments from readers:
"Do the affirmations and be amazed."
"I highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks happiness and life enhancement. I am following his program daily and have noticed an improvement in my physical and mental well-being."
"This book really stands head and shoulders above other allegedly similar books that have sprouted up since Life Energy was first published in 1985."
"Great assessment of the problematic situation of health and health care. Some very interesting connections between the mind, body and soul. Easy read."
"This is definitely one of the best books I have read on Energy Medicine, if not the best." - L. Power
"Keep gaining depth in a fundamental health concept introduced in Your Body Doesn't Lie." - Patricia Pose
"This book should be required reading for anyone practicing, or hoping to practice the healing arts, either through conventional or through complementary medicine." - Jane Raffen
"I highly recommend this book to my seminar participants to assist them in helping others as well as themselves. This is a brilliant book that has surely helped many people resolve psychological issues. Diamond's work has also inspired a radical shift in the way we understand psychological health and treatment." - Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D., author of Energy Psychology: Explorations at the Interface of Energy, Cognition, Behavior, and Health, Second Edition (Innovations in Psychology), Energy Tapping, and Energy Tapping for Trauma: Rapid Relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Using Energy Psychology
Review:
Lois Henderson, BookPleasures.com
"Life Energy should appeal to anyone who wishes to enjoy life more and to gain greater control over their emotions so that they can maximize not only their own sense of well-being, but also their relations with those around them. The exercises and programs that are recommended are well within the grasp of the average individual, and are accessibly presented."
You can use LIFE ENERGY to:
* Lead a more productive, creative, and happy life
* Achieve your full potential
* Deal positively with mental and physical stress
* Reduce negative emotional states (hatred, anger, jealousy etc.) and increase positive emotions (love, faith, courage etc.)
* Prevent and overcome illness and maintain good health
* Look younger as you learn to erase the lines of self-doubt and unhappiness from your face
Dr. Diamond's discovery of how to release LIFE ENERGY is based on the twelve acupuncture meridians, each of which relates to a specific emotional state. Using the simple muscle test described in this book, you can assess these emotional states in yourself or anyone else. Then, by practising a short daily meditational program, you will keep your emotions and meridians balanced so that you achieve maximum LIFE ENERGY and enjoy mental and physical well-being and harmony every day of your life.
One of the most important medical books of the twentieth century, a ground-breaking classic that has never been out of print since it first appeared in 1983, and which remains as relevant today as ever. Essential reading for anyone interested in holistic health, psychology and the relation between the two.
Some comments from readers:
"Do the affirmations and be amazed."
"I highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks happiness and life enhancement. I am following his program daily and have noticed an improvement in my physical and mental well-being."
"This book really stands head and shoulders above other allegedly similar books that have sprouted up since Life Energy was first published in 1985."
"Great assessment of the problematic situation of health and health care. Some very interesting connections between the mind, body and soul. Easy read."
"This is definitely one of the best books I have read on Energy Medicine, if not the best." - L. Power
"Keep gaining depth in a fundamental health concept introduced in Your Body Doesn't Lie." - Patricia Pose
"This book should be required reading for anyone practicing, or hoping to practice the healing arts, either through conventional or through complementary medicine." - Jane Raffen
"I highly recommend this book to my seminar participants to assist them in helping others as well as themselves. This is a brilliant book that has surely helped many people resolve psychological issues. Diamond's work has also inspired a radical shift in the way we understand psychological health and treatment." - Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D., author of Energy Psychology: Explorations at the Interface of Energy, Cognition, Behavior, and Health, Second Edition (Innovations in Psychology), Energy Tapping, and Energy Tapping for Trauma: Rapid Relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Using Energy Psychology
Review:
Lois Henderson, BookPleasures.com
"Life Energy should appeal to anyone who wishes to enjoy life more and to gain greater control over their emotions so that they can maximize not only their own sense of well-being, but also their relations with those around them. The exercises and programs that are recommended are well within the grasp of the average individual, and are accessibly presented."
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277 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
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About the author
John Diamond
60 books23 followersDr. John Diamond graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1957 and was awarded his Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1962. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, a Foundation Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, American Holistic Medical Association, a Diplomate of the International College of Applied Kinesiology and is a Fellow and past President of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine. He is an Honorary Advisor to the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation and their Japanese sister organization, the Koushikai Foundation.
One of the foremost senior holistic healers, Dr. Diamond's remarkable body of work, which includes his discovery of the link between the acupuncture meridians and the emotions, embraces a wide range of disciplines, the result of over fifty years of research and clinical practice. He began his career in psychiatry but expanded into holistic medicine, concentrating on the totality of the sufferer. In his fifty years of practice, he has increasingly recognized that there is within us a great healing force, Life Energy, the healing power within. With his increasing involvement with this concept, his research has led him to concentrate on the enhancement of the sufferer's Life Energy so as to actuate his own innate Healing Power.
Dr. Diamond has held numerous senior clinical and university teaching appointments in clinical psychiatry, the basic sciences and the humanities, and is a widely recognized bestselling author of over twenty books, including "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy: Unlocking the Hidden Power of Your Emotions to Achieve Well-Being," "The Diamond Color Meditation," "Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer" and numerous books on music and healing. He has a large international following, and his books have been translated into a number of languages including German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese and Greek. Most recently "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy" and his newly released "The Diamond Color Meditation" have become available in Russian.
Dr. Diamond lectures and teaches throughout the world and has presented over 1000 seminars, lectures and presentations to numerous medical associations, dental associations and societies as well as other professional organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He has conducted seminars in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Bologna, Tokyo, and London over the past four years.
Dr. Diamond now practices as a Holistic Consultant and blends his experience in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine, the humanities, holism, applied kinesiology, acupuncture theory, spirituality and the arts to help sufferers overcome problems relating to body, mind and spirit. He has also used Creativity for many years, regarding it as an essential and major component of healing, and has founded The Institute for Music and Health and The Institute for Life Energy and Creativity to train those interested in learning how to use the arts as a therapeutic modality. He resides in New York.
One of the foremost senior holistic healers, Dr. Diamond's remarkable body of work, which includes his discovery of the link between the acupuncture meridians and the emotions, embraces a wide range of disciplines, the result of over fifty years of research and clinical practice. He began his career in psychiatry but expanded into holistic medicine, concentrating on the totality of the sufferer. In his fifty years of practice, he has increasingly recognized that there is within us a great healing force, Life Energy, the healing power within. With his increasing involvement with this concept, his research has led him to concentrate on the enhancement of the sufferer's Life Energy so as to actuate his own innate Healing Power.
Dr. Diamond has held numerous senior clinical and university teaching appointments in clinical psychiatry, the basic sciences and the humanities, and is a widely recognized bestselling author of over twenty books, including "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy: Unlocking the Hidden Power of Your Emotions to Achieve Well-Being," "The Diamond Color Meditation," "Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer" and numerous books on music and healing. He has a large international following, and his books have been translated into a number of languages including German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese and Greek. Most recently "Your Body Doesn't Lie," "Life Energy" and his newly released "The Diamond Color Meditation" have become available in Russian.
Dr. Diamond lectures and teaches throughout the world and has presented over 1000 seminars, lectures and presentations to numerous medical associations, dental associations and societies as well as other professional organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He has conducted seminars in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Bologna, Tokyo, and London over the past four years.
Dr. Diamond now practices as a Holistic Consultant and blends his experience in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine, the humanities, holism, applied kinesiology, acupuncture theory, spirituality and the arts to help sufferers overcome problems relating to body, mind and spirit. He has also used Creativity for many years, regarding it as an essential and major component of healing, and has founded The Institute for Music and Health and The Institute for Life Energy and Creativity to train those interested in learning how to use the arts as a therapeutic modality. He resides in New York.
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March 6, 2011
Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions shows you how to correct negative emotional states by thinking positive thoughts and saying positive affirmations. If you follow the program that is set out for you by John Diamond, M.D., he assures you that not only will you more easily be able to keep “in correct mental balance, both in terms of correcting your emotional states and balancing your cerebral hemispheres, thereby increasing your creativity.” Diamond recommends that, by practicing a few simple techniques, which should take up no more than a few minutes of your day, you can make huge strides in achieving positive health and optimum life energy.
The main portion of Life Energy is split up into three different sections: “The Goal”, “The Thymus” and “The Acupuncture Meridians”. After emphasizing the importance of keeping life energy high and the energy systems of the body in balance, Diamond explores the role played by the thymus in our well-being, showing how our emotions can have either a positive or a negative effect on the functioning of the organ. Diamond reveals how, by making simple attitudinal changes, we are able to have a positive influence upon the thymus, making it more active, balanced and properly functioning. The advice that Diamond gives is rational and logical. In his typical pragmatic and down-to-earth manner, he shows how we can solve problems by making the right choices and how we can use visualization exercises to achieve the maximum benefit.
The acupuncture meridians are explored as they relate to the twelve psychological meridian types. The origins of both our weaknesses, such as disdain, contempt and haughtiness, and our strengths, such as generosity and forgiveness, are revealed in relation to the meridians, so that we can learn how to minimize the former and maximize the latter. This section of Life Energy is especially well illustrated, with many black-and-white photographs and a pivotal “Meridian Test Points” chart. In addition to teaching you how to determine your own predominant emotional attitudes, as well as those of anyone with whom you come into contact, Diamond also provides a daily program for life energy that will enable you to enjoy a more healthy, harmonious life.
Life Energy should appeal to anyone who wishes to enjoy life more and to gain greater control over their emotions so that they can maximize not only their own sense of well-being, but also their relations with those around them. The exercises and programs that are recommended are well within the grasp of the average individual, and are accessibly presented.
The main portion of Life Energy is split up into three different sections: “The Goal”, “The Thymus” and “The Acupuncture Meridians”. After emphasizing the importance of keeping life energy high and the energy systems of the body in balance, Diamond explores the role played by the thymus in our well-being, showing how our emotions can have either a positive or a negative effect on the functioning of the organ. Diamond reveals how, by making simple attitudinal changes, we are able to have a positive influence upon the thymus, making it more active, balanced and properly functioning. The advice that Diamond gives is rational and logical. In his typical pragmatic and down-to-earth manner, he shows how we can solve problems by making the right choices and how we can use visualization exercises to achieve the maximum benefit.
The acupuncture meridians are explored as they relate to the twelve psychological meridian types. The origins of both our weaknesses, such as disdain, contempt and haughtiness, and our strengths, such as generosity and forgiveness, are revealed in relation to the meridians, so that we can learn how to minimize the former and maximize the latter. This section of Life Energy is especially well illustrated, with many black-and-white photographs and a pivotal “Meridian Test Points” chart. In addition to teaching you how to determine your own predominant emotional attitudes, as well as those of anyone with whom you come into contact, Diamond also provides a daily program for life energy that will enable you to enjoy a more healthy, harmonious life.
Life Energy should appeal to anyone who wishes to enjoy life more and to gain greater control over their emotions so that they can maximize not only their own sense of well-being, but also their relations with those around them. The exercises and programs that are recommended are well within the grasp of the average individual, and are accessibly presented.
October 1, 2025
A life changing book
I count this as among the few books on wellbeing and health that can actually deliver on all of the promises it makes. It has changed my life and will always remain a classic for me. This one book did for me what entire volumes and so many experts never could. It went so far and above I cant even describe. It is a must read for anyone who cares about living a good life!
I count this as among the few books on wellbeing and health that can actually deliver on all of the promises it makes. It has changed my life and will always remain a classic for me. This one book did for me what entire volumes and so many experts never could. It went so far and above I cant even describe. It is a must read for anyone who cares about living a good life!
December 6, 2018
Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions shows you how to correct negative emotional states by thinking positive thoughts and saying positive affirmations. If you follow the program that is set out for you by John Diamond, M.D., he assures you that you should easily be able to keep “in correct mental balance, both in terms of correcting your emotional states and balancing your cerebral hemispheres, thereby increasing your creativity.” Dr. Diamond recommends that, by practicing a few simple techniques, which should take up no more than a few minutes of your day, you can make huge strides in achieving positive health and optimum life energy.
The main portion of Life Energy is split up into three different sections: “The Goal,” “The Thymus,” and “The Acupuncture Meridians.” After emphasizing the importance of keeping life energy high and the energy systems of the body in balance, Dr. Diamond explores the role played by the thymus in our well-being, showing how our emotions can have either a positive or a negative effect on the functioning of the organ. Dr. Diamond reveals how, by making simple attitudinal changes, we are able to have a positive influence upon the thymus, making it more active, balanced and properly functioning. The advice that Dr. Diamond gives is rational and logical. In his typical pragmatic and down-to-earth manner, he shows how we can solve problems by making the right choices, and how we can use visualization exercises to achieve the maximum benefit.
The acupuncture meridians are explored as they relate to the twelve psychological meridian types. The origins of both our weaknesses, such as disdain, contempt and haughtiness, and our strengths, such as generosity and forgiveness, are revealed in relation to the meridians, so that we can learn how to minimize the former and maximize the latter. This section of Life Energy is especially well illustrated, with many black-and-white photographs and a pivotal “Meridian Test Points” chart. In addition to teaching you how to determine your own predominant emotional attitudes, as well as those of anyone with whom you come into contact, Dr. Diamond also provides a daily program for life energy that will enable you to enjoy a more healthy, harmonious life.
Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions should appeal to anyone who wishes to enjoy life more and to gain greater control over their emotions so that they can maximize not only their own sense of well-being, but also their relations with those around them. The exercises and programs that are recommended are well within the grasp of the average individual, and are accessibly presented. To gain additional insight into Dr Diamond's works, of which there are many, why not visit his official website at https://drjohndiamond.com? Doing so really should be a rewarding experience.
The main portion of Life Energy is split up into three different sections: “The Goal,” “The Thymus,” and “The Acupuncture Meridians.” After emphasizing the importance of keeping life energy high and the energy systems of the body in balance, Dr. Diamond explores the role played by the thymus in our well-being, showing how our emotions can have either a positive or a negative effect on the functioning of the organ. Dr. Diamond reveals how, by making simple attitudinal changes, we are able to have a positive influence upon the thymus, making it more active, balanced and properly functioning. The advice that Dr. Diamond gives is rational and logical. In his typical pragmatic and down-to-earth manner, he shows how we can solve problems by making the right choices, and how we can use visualization exercises to achieve the maximum benefit.
The acupuncture meridians are explored as they relate to the twelve psychological meridian types. The origins of both our weaknesses, such as disdain, contempt and haughtiness, and our strengths, such as generosity and forgiveness, are revealed in relation to the meridians, so that we can learn how to minimize the former and maximize the latter. This section of Life Energy is especially well illustrated, with many black-and-white photographs and a pivotal “Meridian Test Points” chart. In addition to teaching you how to determine your own predominant emotional attitudes, as well as those of anyone with whom you come into contact, Dr. Diamond also provides a daily program for life energy that will enable you to enjoy a more healthy, harmonious life.
Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions should appeal to anyone who wishes to enjoy life more and to gain greater control over their emotions so that they can maximize not only their own sense of well-being, but also their relations with those around them. The exercises and programs that are recommended are well within the grasp of the average individual, and are accessibly presented. To gain additional insight into Dr Diamond's works, of which there are many, why not visit his official website at https://drjohndiamond.com? Doing so really should be a rewarding experience.
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