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Healing Research, Volume II - Popular Edition How Can I Heal What Hurts?: Wholistic Healing and Bioenergies Daniel J. Benor, MD, ABHM Foreword by C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD Summary | About the Author | Reviews | Ordering Information | Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing

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A true review of this book would take many pages. This is unequivocally the encyclopedia of evidence for self-healing, a port for holistic, complementary, and alternative medicine approaches, and a look at an overview of subtle energy, especially looking at the human energy field and environmental electromagnetic energy, cosmos-biology and even astrology.

In Volume I, Dr. Benor summarized an extensive body of research confirming claims by spiritual healers that they can “effect improvements in the health of the healees who flock to them, suffering from all the ailments known to human kind.”

This, Volume II in his Healing Research series, continues to address the question, “How does healing work?” I have never seen a more concise but adequate definition of personality disorders, neuroses, and psychoses. The book is worthwhile just from that point of view alone. There is a discussion of physical symptoms addressed by psychotherapy, as well as by bodywork and by bioenergy therapy. There is a good overview of psychological conditioning and behavioral therapy. Body/mind therapy, spiritual healing, hypnosis, biofeedback, transpersonal psychology, and even spontaneous remissions are addressed. The emphasis is very much on the fact that “—The world is not all in the mind. It would be more accurate to suggest that the mind is all in the world. That is part of the world, in fact, because we are intimately involved.” Lyle Watson

- C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Holos Institutes of Health, Inc.
President, Holos University Graduate Seminary

This book offers a very thorough and comprehensive overview of all the alternative healing methods available today. It is written in a accessible and objective style, presenting both positive and negative aspects of each techniques by someone with a real passion for his subject. As well as being a medical doctor, the author Daniel Benor is Founding Diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and editor of the International Journal of Healing and Caring (www.ijhc.org).

Chapter one deals with self-healing and provides among others an introduction to Psychodynamics and Psychopathology, Normality and Psychosomatic Disorder, the body’s regulating system, physical symptoms addressed by Psychotherapy and psychological conditioning. For every topic it provides an overview of research done in each area and well as problems and weaknesses.

Chapter two looks at Wholistic Energy Medicine. It starts by examining allopathic medicine (or conventional medicine), its strength and weakness and moves on to addressing the issue of qualitative versus quantitative assessment and integrative medicine and whole person care and wholistic care. It also provides a thorough overview of a number of alternative therapies, including yoga, kinesiology, aromatherapy, biofeedback, ayurvedic medicine, breathwork and acupuncture etc.

Chapter three presents the Human Energy Field covering the aura, Kirlian photography, laboratory measurements of Biological Energy Fields etc. This area in particular is extremely exciting for all alternative therapies since modern technology can do a lot to confirm what healers and therapists of all kinds have known intuitively throughout history. Our increased understanding of the human energy fields may ultimately also provide us with answers to eternal questions of how the universe was created and what its driving force is.

Chapter four deals with Geobiological effects. Here we learn about the environment in which we live and how it effects us. We get a presentation of Cosmobiology and Astrology as well as the effects of ley lines.

To find such a comprehensive and well researched overview of alternative therapies and self-healing is a real gift. Apart from being a very interesting read, it is a book that will function as well as an encyclopaedia for all working therapists as well as their clients.

The book is also available on CD-Rom.

- Gunnel Minett
Psychologist, author of Breath & Spirit and Exhale

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 2,” 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: Vibrational Medicine 3rd Edition: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies and “\A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine

HEALING RESEARCH VOL.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