Healing with the Mind's Eye: How to Use Guided Imagery and Visions to Heal Body, Mind, and Spirit
"Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every person's healing journey."-Dean Ornish, M.D.
"I was very moved by this powerful book."-Christiane Northrup, M.D., on Spirit Body Healing
This remarkable book, now in paperback for the first time, can help you tap your own inner strength to enhance healing. For nearly three decades, Dr. Michael Samuels has pioneered the use of guided imagery as a way to help people boost their immune systems-and feel stronger and more in control of their lives.
In Healing with the Mind's Eye, now revised and updated, Dr. Samuels offers you the same program of guided imagery exercises that he's used successfully in patient workshops across the country. You'll discover how to harness a variety of creative visionary techniques-reverie states, personal myths, helping figures, inner light, healing visions, healing imagery, and spiritual transformations-drawn from traditions around the world. As you progress through the exercises in the book, you'll open yourself to healing and change-and embark on your own journey toward wellness.
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Book details
- Author
- Michael Samuels, M.D.
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 256
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness
- Topics
- mind-body healing · immune system · visualization · spiritual healing · personal growth · inner strength
- ISBN-13
- 9780471459088 (Paperback)9781630260996 (Hardcover)
About the author
MICHAEL SAMUELS, M.D., is a family medicine physician and the author of more than twenty books, including Spirit Body Healing, Creative Healing, and Seeing With the Mind’s Eye.
Samuels received the Nautilus Book Award in 2014 for Healing With the Arts. He graduated from New York University School of Medicine in 1967 and has specialized in using creativity, art, and guided imagery with patients facing life-threatening illness and life crises.
When he’s not writing, Samuels serves as founder and director of Art As a Healing Force, a project started in 1990 devoted to integrating art and healing, and teaches at San Francisco State University, the Institute of Holistic Studies, and John F. Kennedy University. This work with art and healing runs throughout his books.
Michael lives in Bolinas, California.
