Love, Medicine And Miracles

I bought this for someone who is unwell at present. It offers HOPE and INSPIRATION for all those sufferers .... There IS something people can do about the condition they have been diagnosed with. Being POSITIVE is the first thing... and then being open minded and trying various options (other than the usual medical path...that is 'alongside' medicine, not necessarily instead of it). In the UK, there is a wonderful establishment called the Penny Brohn Centre (or the Bristol Centre) which is a wonderful place dedicated to the condition; but you are not just 'another number' as in the health service, you are an individual person....and you will find out about holistic treatments, which includes improving diet, lifestyle, learning about visualisation (imagining yourself getting better...this proves to be very valuable to many people....) and so on....Good Luck (ps: I also recommend Louise Hay....positive personal statements, called 'affirmations'...so we start to have better thoughts about ourselves and others).

Excellent book, have not finished yet, but is such an important subject which is still not being taught in med school. I was talking to a 4th year med student the other day, and explaining to her how much it can help to get the patient visualising their body healing, and she'd never heard of it. Have been asked by my local Dr. to give a talk to more 4th year med students in a couple of days, and looking forward to enlightening them, and will likely recommend this book to them. Lucky to have a proactive Dr. locally who wants them to become aware of how complimentary medicine can help their patients. And currently the government are considering taking complementary medicine out of the NHS? Not that there's much included in there anyway, most people have to pay. Reuben Battino (oncologist) has also written a book on this subject, equally worth reading.

This book was recommended to me when my husband had cancer. I devoured it from cover to cover and have bought it many to help friends through the toughest time in their lives!!! It is possibly a bit outdated now but the message is still the same---- positive people survive even with a 1% chance of recovery

This has been a life changing book for me. It is an empowering way of looking at illness and I bought this copy for a friend who had been told she had suspect cells in a biopsy. Her husband read the book and found it extremely useful in the journey. She told me that they have had extremely candid conversations and it is strange that it takes an illness to bring also positive change

For anyone battling with cancer it could either be a great help or a hindrance depending upon your state of mind when you read it. It could seem at times like the good doctor is almost blaming patients for their illness by stating that stress (particularly bereavement and divorce) causes cancer and our ability to cope with stress affects our chances of getting it and likelihood of recovering from it. It is, however, an interesting book to read when you are well and has given me some tools to hopefully retain my health. It emphasises the benefits of alternative therapies, especially hypnosis and meditation over pill popping. The key thing I took from it is that it is not stress, but how we react to it, that affects our health.

This is an inspirational story for all who are in the healing professions, I refer to doctors, nurses, CAM workers, carers and specialists. All these health workers ought to be dedicated, not just to purveying their own particular skills as diligently as possible, but to trying to join forces with their patients to co-operate in the healing process that always involves far more than the specific techniques or medical protocol they use.This book may be too rich a diet for the "sensory deprived modern pseudo-scientific materialist" who will be looking for the double-blind experimental proof that "love" can help heal, or "intuition" and right side brain activity can be as valuable to a surgeon as to an artist.All thirty trillion cells in each of us are influenced all the time by our thoughts and actions so it makes sense to encourage the sick to harness this power.

This is such an amazing book. I first read it over 20 years ago, and was so inspired by it then. Now I have retrained as a homeopath, and it fits so well with everything I know about health and the mind-body connection and the profile of cancer patients. It is a useful read whether you are a health practitioner (mainstream or alternative), a patient, or just generally interested in health and wellbeing. Highly recommend!

An inspiring book, and also a reassuring one. The author has years of professional experience looking after people who have been written off as "terminal". Even for anyone who isn't suffering from a life-threatening illness, many of the perspectives offered by the book cut straight to the chase about the meaning of spirituality and how this is linked with not only our emotional and mental well-being but also our physical well-being.