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Understanding the secret code of illness and health

Many doctors overlook the seemingly inexplicable tragedies and recoveries that happen in hospitals every day, opting to view them simply as aberrations from the medical norm. In this book, Dr. Marc Siegel draws from his decades of experience treating patients and explores the sometimes miraculous effects that the spirit and emotion can have on disease and healing. The inner pulse is the essence that links the soul to the mind and body, the marker that predicts whether a person's life force is fading or strengthening. This book shows you how to tap into your inner pulse and even how to influence it.

Explores how your inner pulse can alert you to what is going on in your body
Offers a new perspective on the positive and negative effects of the mind on illness and healing
Includes dramatic case stories of Dr. Siegel's work with his own patients?those who have healed and those who have not

Exploring the uncanny world where expectation and outcome are driven by a patient's personal intuition, this book will give you a deeper understanding of how the mind relates to disease and how the mind and the body working in sync can help heal.
Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part One: Knowing Your Inner Pulse.

1 Surgeons of the Mind.

2 The Pulse of Recovery.

3 One Patient, Many Pulses.

4 Inner Pulse Rising.

5 Radar to Die.

Part Two: The Healing Pulse.

6 Dancing in the Dark.

7 Infection of Body, Infection of Spirit.

8 Never Say Die.

9 Radar to Live.

10 The Black Swan.

11 The Truth about Psychic Healing.

Part Three: The Pulse of Power.

12 The Strongest Inner Pulse.

13 Who Dies? Who Lives?

14 Considering the Alternative.

15 Miracles and the Inner Pulse.

Afterword: All in Good Time.

Bibliography.

Santé et bien-être

Santé du quotidien

Santé au quotidien

Fitness

Health

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	10 mars 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781118028087
Langue	English

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One : Knowing Your Inner Pulse
Chapter 1 : Surgeons of the Mind
Chapter 2 : The Pulse of Recovery
Chapter 3 : One Patient, Many Pulses
Chapter 4 : Inner Pulse Rising
Chapter 5 : Radar to Die
Part Two : The Healing Pulse
Chapter 6 : Dancing in the Dark
Chapter 7 : Infection of Body, Infection of Spirit
Chapter 8 : Never Say Die
Chapter 9 : Radar to Live
Chapter 10 : The Black Swan
Chapter 11 : The Truth about Psychic Healing
Part Three : The Pulse of Power
Chapter 12 : The Strongest Inner Pulse
Chapter 13 : Who Dies? Who Lives?
Chapter 14 : Considering the Alternative
Chapter 15 : Miracles and the Inner Pulse
Afterword : All in Good Time
Bibliography
Recommended Reading
Index

Copyright 2011 by Marc Siegel, M.D. All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Siegel, Marc (Marc K.)
The inner pulse : unlocking the secret code of sickness and health / Marc Siegel.
p.; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-26039-5 (cloth : alk. paper); ISBN 978-1-118-02806-3 (ebk);
ISBN 978-1-118-02807-0 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-02808-7 (ebk)
1. Mental healing. 2. Health-Psychological aspects. 3. Mind and body. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Mental Healing. 2. Attitude to Health. 3. Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical. 4. Patients-psychology. 5. Volition. WB 880]
RZ400.S622 2011
615.8 51-dc22
2010054048
To my mother and father, Annette and Bernard, who conceived my inner pulse
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
-Leo Tolstoy
Preface
I have always wanted to understand the emotional component of illness and recovery. Long before I became a physician, I came to the realization that there is an essential life force inside all of us that grows stronger with good health and weaker with disease. I couldn t really comprehend or define this force, but I knew that it was fundamental and that it could disappear in an instant, causing death. I have been fascinated by this phenomenon since I was a child, and I pursued a greater awareness of it as I grew into adulthood.
My Jewish great-grandparents were murdered in a pogrom in Poland at the turn of the twentieth century. This horrific event forever changed my family in ways that related to body, mind, and spirit. I wanted to understand what happened and how I could use that understanding to help others.
This led me to enter the practice of medicine from an unusual angle, one closer to humanism than to pure science. In the course of my medical training, I began to recognize a previously undescribed force as a kind of radar for wellness, a spiritual and physical element that exists deep within us-invisible and immeasurable, yet central to all of our lives. I came to call this force the inner pulse.
As a doctor, I began to consider the pulse. Sometimes I thought I could tame it or change it. I came to realize that controlling this nameless unseen power is very difficult. It shapes us much more than we can shape it. Apprehending the power of the inner pulse is the most that many of us can do.
Sensing the inner pulse can help a patient or a doctor predict, much more than alter, the future. The inner pulse is a harbinger of future events, illness, and death, as well as recovery and cure. Masters and healers ply their various physical disciplines and treatments, as well as mental concentration techniques, to effect a subtle change. In extraordinary cases, a major change occurs.
A person can learn to know his or her inner pulse much better than any physician can, although a good physician can learn to be attentive through a career of careful listening. A good doctor is always trying to sense this pulse.
A chance experience that occurred before I entered medical school prepared me to become sensitive and receptive to the uncanny world of strange and unexpected cures.
In 1976, at the age of twenty, I rode my bicycle across the United States and Canada with my best friend, Ron. We rode more than a hundred miles a day east across the Canadian Rockies and onto the plains of Alberta, pushing ourselves to our physical limits. We soon found that succeeding at this pace required an intense focus.
As we pedaled in an accelerated rhythm for hour after hour, our perceptions became heightened and we entered a trancelike state. We rarely spoke, and the world around us seemed increasingly strange and foreign. Almost every morning we awoke in our campsites to a cloudy or drizzly sky with a swarm of black flies settling over us. Almost every afternoon, while riding our bicycles, we watched the blanket of black clouds that covered the sky from horizon to horizon and hoped for even a slant of sunshine. We wore drab plastic ponchos that did not keep us dry. The top of my tan poncho acted as a funnel, and the rainwater collected on the bridge of my nose and dripped onto my chin and down my neck.
Alberta was desolate. Route 1 was a major cross-Canadian route, yet we rode for several hours at around fifteen miles an hour without seeing another human being. We held a running conversation to stay alert. We lived the primitive realities of the land and the sky and the search for food and a place to sleep every night.
One day in late July, riding along Route 1, Ron and I were caught up in a discussion about the purpose of our lives. It was approaching twilight, and the shadows of bicycle and rider were lengthening on the road when all of a sudden the long accelerating shadow of a station wagon appeared on the horizon behind us. It was the first car we had seen in more than five hours. As we looked over our left shoulders and saw the bright metal car, Ron and I felt instinctively that we were in trouble-it was something we could intuit from the way the vehicle was speeding, yet drifting in its lane. I began to move to the side of the road and onto the shoulder. Ron, having the same feeling, did the same.
Less than a hundred yards from us, the driver lost control. The skids along the dry road made a sharp, screeching sound. I was startled-my midbrain sent a message to my nerves and muscles to initiate a fight or flight response. My amygdala, the emotional center of the primitive deep brain, authorized a surge of adrenaline and noradrenaline, and my jazzed-up reflexes instantly caused me to jump from the road and as far down into the small ravine by the side as I could go. Pressed against the embankment there, joined by Ron, our hearts racing from the hormones, we waited, staring straight ahead as the out-of-control car skidded and careened along. Finally, the images of our shadows on the road converged. The car shadow missed the shadows of our heads and bodies and bicycles by inches. Once past, the car skidded wildly a few more times until the driver slowed, regained control, and continued on. He didn t stop.
Ron and I looked at each other, shaken yet relieved that we had saved ourselves with a reflexive leap from the road. Probability would never have anticipated either the problem-that the car would lose control-or the only possible solution. Our inner pulses saved our lives.
The nearly fatal accident on that Alberta road became my first major step in the direction of becoming a healing physician. We had anticipated an unlikely event. We had been provoked