Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind by Hardcover

What if you could control pain with just your thoughts? Or help to heal a broken leg with the energy that exists in your body and mind? Miraculous Health by Dr. Rick Levy is a fascinating book dealing primarily with hypnosis and meditation, not only for pain and healing, but for maintaining good health and for things like weight loss. As a licensed psychologist, he discusses in great detail the mind/body connection, how hypnosis and meditation work and how important our thinking is to our physical health and well being. He explains that his ideas should be used to complement conventional medical care, not replace it.

I think a lot of us understand on some level that our thoughts can affect our health but Dr. Levy explains that everything in existence is made out of energy and energy is governed by thought. He tells us that thought occurs on four levels in the human mind, with each level more powerful than the last, all the way up to infinite mind which is like universal thought or being one with God or whatever ultimate force or being we believe in. Most people are only using one level of thought - conscious thought, which is the weakest part of the mind. He likens it to an iceberg with the conscious mind being the small part above the water and the subconscious being the much larger part below the water. When you learn to "think" at all four levels no problem can resist your will, whether the issue is trivial or "life and death."

There are so many fascinating parts to this book. I have to admit that some of it was hard for me to buy into and seemed just too good to be true. I can't imagine having the ability to cure every ailment with just our minds. But we've all known people who've overcome some level of illness and more often than not these are the type of people with a positive outlook, who believe that they will improve. I'm convinced that we can have at least some amount of control.

With the purchase of this book Dr. Levy provides access to 11 different hypnosis and guided meditation sessions that can be downloaded from his website. They range from about 8 � minutes to almost 45 minutes. You can listen to these on your computer with iTunes or transfer them to your iPod. They are meant to be listened to as you read his book explaining how they are to be used. Since this type of work requires time and repetition, I've only listened to the first few, but it was easy to be guided into a hypnotic state. One of the downloads deals with weight loss which is a subject near and dear to my heart so I did listen to that one right away. I am hoping that by using it over a period of weeks, controlling my eating will become second nature rather than having it weigh heavily on my mind all the time. The sessions make me very relaxed afterward and I've been in a very good mood when waking up the last few mornings which I think have a lot to do with the hypnosis.

I've never had much success with meditation even though it's become so commonplace that they're thinking of teaching it to kids in California schools to help them with learning. I bet I'm not the only one who went all the way through the 70's not being able to "get it". But Dr. Levy's in depth explanation in this book has given me a different perspective. And one of his downloads is a hypnosis guided meditation session so I'm hoping this will be what I need to finally reach a meditative state.

There is so much information in this book. If you've ever wondered about the mind/body connection, this is one that you won't want to miss.

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