Spirit Heals: Awakening a Woman's Inner Knowing for Self-Healing »

Spirit Heals is a wide-ranging manifesto on how women heal and how they can incorporate aspects of spirit, emotion, mind, and body in their healing journey. Author Meredith Young-Sowers explores a wide range of resources, external and internal: doctors, nutrition, chemo, radiation, massage, acupuncture, surgery, energy work, meditation, visualization. She explains how focused participation to rekindle kindness and passion can occur simultaneously with any other treatment to enhance healing. She introduces the concepts of “spiritual DNA” and “spiritual genes” that let readers see they are not “destined” to be sick and can be proactive in achieving health. Particular sections include “Ask Yourself,” which helps readers reform their thoughts; “Attitude Shifts,” which contains affirmations and reminders of the healing thoughts and actions; and “Activities,” which guides readers step by step through changes. Based in part on her extensive workshop teachings, Spirit Heals is an informed, loving reminder that good health is something every woman should — and can — have.

Foreword     xiii
Preface: On Healing     xvii
Introduction     xix
The Art and Science of Healing
Giving Ourself the Best Advice     3
Emotional Nourishment - Expressing the New Season of Our Life     11
Intellectual Nourishment - Doing It Our Way     17
Social Nourishment - Finding Our Community     23
Physical Nourishment - Believing in What Sustains Us     29
Spiritual Nourishment - Aligning with Love as the Source of Life     33
Mind as Healer, Mind as Critic
Our Search for Meaning - The Cornerstone of Wellness     43
Our Believability Factors     51
Intuitive Perception - Our Channel to Spirit     57
Personality Mind Is the Critic     71
Wisdom Mind Is Our Helper     85
Reality Check - We Are More Than Our Genes
Our Spiritual DNA     95
Our Seven Spiritual Gene Sets     103
Recasting Our Relationships with Our Mother and Father     111
Dealing with Anger     121
The Power of Being a Woman     127
The Power of Being an Everyday Mystic     137
A Conversation About New Beginnings
Our Reproductive System and Its Subtle Energy Wisdom     147
Loss, Grief, and Grace - The Path to Healing     161
Putting Our Spirit in the Center of Our Healing     171
The Positive Energy of Every Situation     183
The Original Love Triangle
Our Heart Is Our Life Partner     191
Knowing When to Give     197
Tend and Befriend - A Woman's Response to Stress     209
Self-Love - The Way Will Open     217
The Biology of Partnership     225
Heart Attack - A Call to Remember Our Sacred Heart Song     233
Claiming the New Season of Our Life
The Best Healing Medicine     245
Welcoming Home Our Own Wild, Free, and Naturally Regenerative Nature     255
Love Is the Way     269
Stepping into the Center of Our Own Life     277
Acknowledgments     289
Notes     291
Index     297
About the Author     310