Books like A book of miracles by Bernie S. Siegel

Guides readers through practical steps to release fears, heal disease-causing blocks, and empower personal health and life fulfillment.

Bernie Siegel explains how the mind and body’s self‑healing system works, grounding his insights in science and showing why love has a physiological effect on health.

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day - patients ho have the courage to love, those who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery. Bernie Slegal, M.D, practices surgery in New Haven and teaches at Yale University. In 1978, Siegal started ECap (Exceptional Cancer Patients), a specialized form of individual and group therapy based on "carefontation," a loving, safe, therapeutic confrontation that facilitates personal change and healing. This experience led to his desire to make everyone aware of his or her own healing potential. In 1988, he became president of the American Holistic Medical Association.

An exploration of how patients’ active engagement in their own care can lead to healing, emotional growth, and a deeper understanding of the mind–body connection.

This book is a vibrant, authoritative cultural history of mind-body healing. When it comes to disease and healing, most of us believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter. We've all heard that people suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst, that stress can kill, and that ancient Eastern mind-body techniques can bring us balance and healing. But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this history describes our commitments to mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories that have allowed people to make new sense of their suffering, express discontent with existing care, and rationalize new treatments and lifestyles. These stories are sometimes supported by science, sometimes at odds with science, but are all ultimately about much more than just science. - Publisher.

Dr. Bernie Siegel blends surgical expertise with art-based and other complementary techniques to help patients tap into their own healing power.