BOOK OF THE YEAR - Scientific and Medical Network, UK

Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing
Self-Healing and Energy Medicine for the 21st Century
Foreword by Norman Shealy, MD, PhD

This is a 4 in 1 book, providing numerous research references, with chapters on:
1. Understanding the ways we can make ourselves ill and ways we can heal ourselves
2. An enormous variety of therapies that can help us on our paths to healing, from Acupuncture to Yoga and Zen
3. Bioenergy medicine
4. Geobiological effects – our connections with the world beyond – dowsing and astrological research

This volume explains wholistic psychological self-healing, exploring many aspects of mind-body and body-mind interactions. For instance, psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) demonstrates that the mind and emotions can have profound influences over the hormonal and immune systems. Clinical examples, research and theories are arrayed to explain healing through wholistic approaches, such as meditation, visualization, acupuncture, osteopathy and much more. When practiced wholistically, most complementary/alternative (CAM) therapies also include aspects of spiritual healing.

Volume II explores biological energy medicine. Many of the CAM therapies and spiritual healing appear to involve biological energies. Spiritual healing, craniosacral therapy, and other approaches rely on biological energies that are transferred through the hands of the therapist. Acupuncture addresses energies in the acupuncture points along the meridians that run from head to toes and fingers. Homeopathy and flower essences rely on energies or information patterned into the water that is their vehicle for administration of these remedies. This volume considers research that demonstrates the presence and roles of the energy body.

Biological energies interact with environmental energies. Research in these unconventional energies is explored, and their relevance to spiritual healing is considered.

No other book has explored
complementary and alternative medicine through the eyes of a physician
who is also an energy medicine practitioner and researcher.

ENDORSEMENTS

This, the second volume of HEALING RESEARCH, continues the same high standards Dr. Daniel Benor set in Volume 1: authoritative, insightful, and comprehensive. For anyone wishing to explore how modern consciousness research is intersecting with the healing professions, this book is essential. Dr. Daniel J. Benor is the great chronicler of this field. A greater service can hardly be imagined.

        - Larry Dossey, MD
            Author: Healing beyond the Body; Reinventing Medicine; and Healing Words
            Executive Editor: Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Medicine is at a point where it is imperative that it become open minded and accepting of all aspects of healthcare and healing. Daniel Benor's compilation of information is an excellent resource for all those interested in expanding their view of health and healing. Every health care practitioner should read it and incorporate the contents into his or her belief system and practice.
        - Bernie Siegel, MD
           Author Love, Medicine & Miracles and Prescriptions For Living

In this updated version of Healing Research, Volume II, Dr Daniel Benor has provided an invaluable service to physicians, healthcare workers, as well as general readers who may be interested in the nature of healing. by putting together the most extensive and critical analyses of past and present healing research that can be found in a single sourcebook. It is a resource I find myself consulting again and again, often coming away with new insights each time. I consider his Healing Research series to be a classic in the healing field and continue to recommend it highly.
        - Richard Gerber, M.D.
          Author of "Vibrational Medicine 3rd Edition: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies and
             A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine"

Healing Research, Volume.2 provides the encyclopedia of information needed by those interested in the field of true healing. It is a masterpiece of documentation and well worth having in everyone's library. 
        - C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.
           President, Holos University Graduate Seminary
               Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - SELF-HEALING [98pp]
Psychodynamics and Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Suggestion
Biofeedback
Unusual Human Abilities
Self-Healing Programs
The Mind and the Brain
Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Collective Consciousness and Spiritual Awareness
Preview of an Energy Healing Model

CHAPTER 2 - WHOLISTIC ENERGY MEDICINE [162pp]
Complementary Therapies and Wholistic Medicine
CAM Modalities
Problems addressed well by CAM Modalities
Cam Issues
Natural Healing Abilities and Rhythms of the Body
The Personhood of the Therapist
Choosing Your Doctor and Other Therapists
The Transpersonal in Wholistic Medicine
Integrative Care: Harmonizing CAM and Allopathic Therapies

CHAPTER 3 - THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD [39pp]
Auras
Kirlian Photography
Laboratory Measurements of Biological Energy Fields

CHAPTER 4 - GEOBIOLOGICAL EFFECTS [42pp]
Radiesthesia (Dowsing) and Radionics
Cosmobiology and Astrology

CONCLUSION (6pp)
APPENDIX -  CAM Resources (50pp)
GLOSSARY (8pp)
NOTES (30pp)

AUTHOR INDEX (6pp)

SUBJECT INDEX (15pp)

Tables 8

Diagrams and illustrations 18