Your Body Speaks Your Mind

What are your symptoms and illnesses telling you about yourself? In Your Body Speaks Your Mind, renowned teacher and bestselling author Deb Shapiro shows how understanding your body's 'language of symptoms' can increase your potential for healing. She explains the interconnectedness between your physical state and your emotional, psychological and spiritual health, and reveals: How unresolved emotional and psychological issues can affect your physical health; How feelings and thoughts are linked to specific parts of the body; How you can take steps to heal your body with your mind, and your mind with your body. Your Body Speaks Your Mind shows you how to initiate communication between body and mind, and decode the priceless information your body is giving you, in order to achieve better health and a greater sense of wellbeing.

Shapiro explains why unresolved psycho/emotional issues can affect physical health, how feelings and thoughts are linked to specific body parts, and steps to take to heal the body with the mind, and to heal the mind with the body.

Activate Your Unique, Built-In Healer The language your body speaks is energy. Just under the surface of your awareness, your body, mind, and spirit are using energetic signaling to communicate constantly with one another. This clear and practical guide teaches you how to understand and “speak” energy so you can participate in your body, mind, and spirit’s unique creation of self. Easy-to-use explorations, exercises, and practices enable you to tap into your internal guidance system and activate your body’s innate capacity to thrive.

This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body of their patients. The analytical dyad became the focus of a dialectical movement between body and mind and between subject and object. Containing contributions from a range of distinguished British and Italian analysts, this book covers such key topics as somatic symptoms, the embodied unconscious, bodily expressions of affect, sexuality, violence, self-harm, suicide attempts, hypochondria, hysteria, anorexia and bulimia, and splits and fragmentation associated with the body. The theoretical understanding is inspired by various psychoanalytic theoreticians, including Freud, M. Klein, Winnicott and Bion and their theories on sexuality, infantile sexuality, libido, aggressiveness, death instinct, Oedipus complex and mother–child relationship. Offering new advances in theoretical thinking and practical applications for clinical work, this book will be essential for all psychoanalysts and mental health clinicians interested in understanding serious mental disturbance that is represented in the body.

Fears, anxieties, traumas, and physical and emotional shocks imprint on the body and remain dormant in its vast memory store until they are roused by an event or encounter. They may manifest in a different form or place—a fearful incident may transform itself into a stomachache or a headache, or even a chronic disease. Pain creates its own path. In particular, psychological and emotional stresses affect the functioning of the internal organs. In Understanding the Messages of Your Body, Dr. Jean-Pierre Barral explains the relationships that exist between internal organs and emotions, to allow us to free ourselves from the effects of present and past tensions and traumas. The book opens with an explanation of the body-mind relationship and goes on to show how physical-emotional therapy works based on examples from Dr. Barral’s clinical practice. The second part of the book offers detailed analyses of various “types” of human personality and the physical-emotional complexes and related organ dysfunctions that accompany them. The author offers advice and encouragement to improve physical, psychological, and emotional health, and recommends physical exercises, psychotherapeutic approaches, and dietary plans that can be used by both professional therapists and the average reader.

On any given day, most of us experience some form of minor, short-lived symptom without physical illness - such as back pain, palpitations, or a nervous stomach - often the body's expression of emotional discomfort. Most people recognize these pains as an indication that they are overstressed and need to make an adjustment. But often these symptoms do not speak so clearly, and both patients and doctors enter a labyrinth of complex physical ailments for which there is no apparent biological cause. The result is a medical mystery that preoccupies patients and confounds and frustrates doctors and psychiatrists. When the Body Speaks Its Mind explains through compelling case histories how people can become hypochondriacs, people whose physical symptoms are masks for their true psychological problems. In these fascinating stories: An elderly man's ghostly and unbearable pain is eventually linked to his traumatic childhood and current sexual difficulties; a young executive's visits to scores of medical specialists for a host of ailments over many years finally lead him to realize the origin of these ailments in a deep-seated anger; and the disturbing truth about a woman's fairy-tale marriage is revealed during the pursuit of the causes for her disabling palpitations. But these unusual cases seem mundane when compared with the extreme condition known as Munchausen's syndrome, in which patients skillfully feign and create illness to lure their physicians into performing complex treatments, even when it means flirting with death through unnecessary surgery or prescriptions. Medical specialists are often confounded by these carefully constructed physical symptoms, and the patients live much oftheir lives in hospitals. Armed with surprising knowledge of diagnostic medicine and manipulating the compassionate tendencies of their doctors, Munchausens are the terrorists of the medical world. In this captivating book, Dr. Goodman acts as a detective, delving into the psychological mysteries behind his patients' physical symptoms. His insightful sleuthing uncovers appropriate treatments for these complex mind-body problems and presents new understanding of the promise of modern psychiatry and the power of the mind.

In this book you will discover what the messages from the different body systems mean and how you can heal any situation by understanding the message that is being delivered and acting appropriately on that message. This is a secret language that is now being revealed. It is no longer a mystery. Discover for yourself what YOU are trying to say to YOURSELF.