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Healers on Healing

Author Richard Carlson
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Penguin Adult HC/TR | Tarcher
On sale Feb 01, 1989 | 224 Pages | 9780874774948
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In thirty-seven original essays written for this book, some of the world's leaders in healing explore their personal and professional experiences in order to uncover the underlying principles on which all healing rests. Rather than focusing on diverse techniques, the writers seek the "golden thread" that ties together the wide range of approaches to healing.

In simple, direct language, the contributors explore the complex nature of healing from many viewpoints. We hear from physicians, psychologists, nurses, metaphysical healers, and shamans.

Their topics include:
  • what healing really is and how it takes place
  • the power of the healer within
  • what to look for in a healer
  • the function of spirituality in healing
  • the dramatic effects of the healing relationship
  • the role of attitudes and emotions
  • love as a healing force
  • healing and death


The result is a grand synthesis of heartfelt thinking that offers a treasury of profound insights for people in the healing professions, people who seek to develop their own healing capacities, people who wish to benefit from healers, and anyone interested in the magical properties of human relationships.
Foreword

This book asks many of the best and most well-known nontraditional healers to distill their thoughts to the primary factor each has found to be the basis of healing. In the heartwarming sections ahead, you will have the opportunity to savor the answers to the single question they were asked: What, in your experience, is the key element or golden thread that unites healing processes? The contributors set aside secondary thoughts to present their primary realizations in an original, never-before-published manuscript.

To see this material arranged in the form of an anthology is inspiring because it offers us the perspective of many people, which no single healer, however successful, can provide. We are no longer limited to the experience of the blind men examining different parts of the elephant, unable to sense what the whole animal is like. Instead, we get a rich, multidimensional picture of healing.

As a traditionally trained physician and a creative explorer of nontraditional healing modalities, I am in a unique position to critically appreciate what is presented here. Let me put it succinctly and poetically:

Anthology literally means a gathering of flowers. I am moved and inspired by the unique beauty of each flower that makes up this arrangement, and by the profound mystery to which the arrangement as a whole brings me. I am sure you will feel the same.

W. Brugh Joy, M.D., F.A.C
Copyright © 2002 by Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

During his life, RICHARD CARLSON, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world, and was a frequent guest on such shows as Oprah, The Today Show, The View, CNN, Fox, PBS, and over 2000 other shows. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon, with over 20 titles in the series, two of which were co-authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.

The words “don't sweat the small stuff” became a part of American culture thanks to Carlson’s book of the same name, which became a runaway bestseller and made publishing history as the #1 bestselling book in the United States for two consecutive years.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is still considered one of the fastest selling books of all time. It has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.

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In thirty-seven original essays written for this book, some of the world's leaders in healing explore their personal and professional experiences in order to uncover the underlying principles on which all healing rests. Rather than focusing on diverse techniques, the writers seek the "golden thread" that ties together the wide range of approaches to healing.

In simple, direct language, the contributors explore the complex nature of healing from many viewpoints. We hear from physicians, psychologists, nurses, metaphysical healers, and shamans.

Their topics include:
  • what healing really is and how it takes place
  • the power of the healer within
  • what to look for in a healer
  • the function of spirituality in healing
  • the dramatic effects of the healing relationship
  • the role of attitudes and emotions
  • love as a healing force
  • healing and death


The result is a grand synthesis of heartfelt thinking that offers a treasury of profound insights for people in the healing professions, people who seek to develop their own healing capacities, people who wish to benefit from healers, and anyone interested in the magical properties of human relationships.

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Foreword

This book asks many of the best and most well-known nontraditional healers to distill their thoughts to the primary factor each has found to be the basis of healing. In the heartwarming sections ahead, you will have the opportunity to savor the answers to the single question they were asked: What, in your experience, is the key element or golden thread that unites healing processes? The contributors set aside secondary thoughts to present their primary realizations in an original, never-before-published manuscript.

To see this material arranged in the form of an anthology is inspiring because it offers us the perspective of many people, which no single healer, however successful, can provide. We are no longer limited to the experience of the blind men examining different parts of the elephant, unable to sense what the whole animal is like. Instead, we get a rich, multidimensional picture of healing.

As a traditionally trained physician and a creative explorer of nontraditional healing modalities, I am in a unique position to critically appreciate what is presented here. Let me put it succinctly and poetically:

Anthology literally means a gathering of flowers. I am moved and inspired by the unique beauty of each flower that makes up this arrangement, and by the profound mystery to which the arrangement as a whole brings me. I am sure you will feel the same.

W. Brugh Joy, M.D., F.A.C
Copyright © 2002 by Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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During his life, RICHARD CARLSON, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world, and was a frequent guest on such shows as Oprah, The Today Show, The View, CNN, Fox, PBS, and over 2000 other shows. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon, with over 20 titles in the series, two of which were co-authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.

The words “don't sweat the small stuff” became a part of American culture thanks to Carlson’s book of the same name, which became a runaway bestseller and made publishing history as the #1 bestselling book in the United States for two consecutive years.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is still considered one of the fastest selling books of all time. It has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.

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