Changing
Your Mind for Health
A Guide to Healing and the Mind
The upcoming book
Table of Contents
Follow chapter links for chapter summaries and book excerpts
Part I Looking for Health in All the Wrong Places
Why the Mind-Body Approach Hasn’t Caught On
Chapter 1
Beyond Positive Thinking
What the Mind-Body Approach Is and What It’s Not
Chapter 2
What’s in It for You?
Reasons to Change Your Mind about Health
Chapter 3
Don't Try This at Home!
What We Don't Like about the Mind-Body Approach
Chapter 4
Scaring Us for Our Own Good
How We Lost Our Faith in Health
Chapter 5
Broccoli, Red Wine and Church-going
The Search for the Active Ingredient
Part II Everything Is Psychosomatic
The Unifying Field Theory of Health
Chapter 6
Evidence of Things Not Seen
Proof of the Power of the Mind
Chapter 7
The Answers Are Inside You
Principles of a Subjective Science of Health
Part III Practice, Practice, Practice
Applying the Principles
Chapter 8
It All Begins -- and Ends -- in Your Head
Rearranging the Furniture of Your Mind
Chapter 9
Practice Like You Mean It!
Putting Your Heart and Mind into Change
Chapter 10
Stop Concentrating on What You Don’t Want!
A Realist’s Guide to Positive Thinking
Chapter 11
If This Were a Dream, What Would It Mean?
Learning to Read Yourself Like a Book
Chapter 12
Pain Is Inevitable—Suffering Is Optional
Heeding the Motivating Message of Discomfort
Chapter 13
Everyday Magic
Intuition, Impulses, and Other Messages from Your Inner Physician
Chapter 14
What Do You Really Want?
Priorities, Choices, Values and Health
Chapter 15
A Path with Heart: Creating a Life Worth Living