HEALING YOURSELF

HEALING YOURSELF: Understanding How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body
by Sheila Pennington Ph.D.

Using many case histories, including those involving cancer, Dr. Pennington examines and defines the components of successful healing, demonstrating that it is the psychological process rather than any specific technique that shifts the balance point from dying to living.


Ottawa Citizen:

"Dr. Pennington offers a full range of practical strategies and techniques that can be used in this struggle."


Financial Post:

"This practicing Toronto psychotherapist writes not as a mere theorist, but from personal experience, having healed herself of a severe heart ailment, and therein lies its value. Pennington writes brilliantly about the psychological process that fuses mind, body and spirit and brings about healing. She has demystified illness."

Marilyn Ferguson, Brain Mind Bulletin, Author of The Aquarian Conspiracy:
"Healing Yourself is an exceptionally wise and readable book."

Dennis T. Jaffe, Co-author of Healing from Within.
"Healing Yourself is a very powerful, and very special book."

Author's Note about: HEALING YOURSELF: Understanding How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body.

"This book is about renewal: a dynamic, inner change that affects one's quality and style of living as well as one's physical health.

We have extensive information on helping people prepare for death, but helping ourselves to re-evaluate our lives for the purpose of survival is relatively unexplored territory. How does it happen that some people diagnosed as terminally ill die, while others with the same diagnosis extend and even improve the quality of their lives and sometimes recover completely?

This question was the subject of scientific research for my doctoral dissertation, "Living or Dying: An Investigation of the Balance Point" and it is on this research that Healing Yourself: Understanding How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body is founded.

The book describes the life-extending and life-transforming patterns that emerge through a scientific investigation of the lives of six people who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a predicted date of death. The remarkable and fascinating recoveries or journeys to health of some of my clients are also described.

My research purpose was to discover the psychological dynamics that tip the balance point from dying to living when one is confronted with a physician's diagnosis of "hopelessness" that is based solely on one's physical condition. Although the six people interviewed had been diagnosed as terminally ill, the outstanding results of their actions are relevant for any of us with any illness, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. The ways in which they responded to their diagnosis dramatically affected their living or dying. Their examples provide us with a life-giving key - a key that opens the door to the potential we all possess for confronting, listening to, and overcoming illness. The open door introduces us to profound new vistas as we embark on a journey to health."

"HEALING YOURSELF: Understanding How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body is available in many book stores, from the publisher McGraw-Hill Ryerson or may be ordered directly from the author by calling 416-385-7973 or Toll Free in North America: 1-866-385-7973.