Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind »

As a clinician, board-certified doctor of psychology, and researcher, Rick

Levy, Ph.D., has been working at the forefront of mind-body medicine since

1976. A licensed psychologist in private practice, serving an international

clientele, Dr. Levy has taken his techniques to five continents, to people

of every culture, class, and age, from the world's international power elite

to the indigeneous peoples of the Amazon and Africa. He has used his methods

to help in the healing of people with everything from lower back pain to

life-threatening disease. Levy's work has been featured on Prime Time

Live, FOX News, PBS, and ABC radio, and in The Washingtonian and

The Washington Post. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where he

directs his clinic, The Levy Center for the Healing Arts.

Lou Aronica is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction.

He has collaborated on a number of books, including the national bestseller

The Culture Code. Prior to that, he spent two decades as a senior

executive in the publishing industry. He lives with his family in southern

Connecticut.

The power to live a pain-free life of health and well-being is stored deepin the limitless human mind. Miraculous Health is the revolutionaryblueprint for accessing this power. Dr. Rick Levy systematically guidesthe reader through a specific program to heal physical illness or injury.His sequence of proven prescriptive mind-body healing techniques leads toimmediate results and miraculous changes in long-term vitality.

Dr. Levy's methods are easy to learn and can be customized for individualneeds. The exercises in this book come with cogent explanations of why theywork, complete with their scientific underpinnings, and are illuminated bytrue healing stories and personal anecdotes. To maximize the power of thework in this book, the author provides twelve potent mind-body tools to thereader as free audio downloads accessed via the Web. Most important, thereader can do this with no more specialized training than a commitment tobetter health. Not just a feel-good theory, and much more than the revelation of a phenomenon, Miraculous Health unleashes the powerwithin to heal in dramatic and enduring ways.

Acknowledgements     ix
Introduction     xi
A Glimpse into the Power of the Mind     1
The Story Behind the Story     5
Skill Building
Thought Directs the Energy Inside of You     19
Feeling Energy     21
A Hypnotic Holiday     37
Hypnosis     39
An Instant Stressbuster     55
Meditation     57
Self-Analysis
Conscious Assessment     73
Hypnotic Self-Assessment     85
Treatment
Getting Yourself a Little Better Right Away     99
Hypnotic Pre-Talk     107
Combining Direct Suggestion and Healing Imagery Under Hypnosis     119
Hypnotic Regression     131
Enery Healing     143
The Gearshift Exercise     151
Supplemental Methods
Cognitive Reprogramming     163
Cathartic and Expressive Techniques     173
Preparing for the Rest of Your Life
Where to Go from Here     187
Bonus Chapter. Seeing Things in a New Way     197
Glossary     209