Books

Herbert Benson's The Relaxation Response is one of those long-time bestsellers that rocked the world of anxiety and stress treatment back in the days when Transcendental Meditation (TM) was also popular Before yoga took the world by storm and alternative health treatments became mainstream, Dr Benson was teaching readers how to respond to stress in such a way as to prevent stress-related illness Response to What Before exploring his teachings, what are readers of Benson's work

Now a decade old, Bruce Lipton's book The Biology of Belief still elicits extreme responses from readers They range from calling the author a charlatan to lauding his readable narrative Bruce Lipton, PhD, has his own website so you can read about his books and his life There are also reviews on other sites where readers share honest opinions about the text and how they came to their conclusions Any study which connects science with spirituality is always going to attract a lot of excitement

Holistic practitioners believe the body can be stimulated to heal itself of almost any disease Naturopathic and many Asian forms of healing agree either completely or to a certain extent that human cells have the capacity, when given the right stimuli and environment, to fight virtually any disease According to some alternative and even many mainstream health care practitioners, consumers take too many drugs and undergo surgery far more often than they need to Western treatment covers up

Twenty years ago, Noetic scientists decided there needed to be a body of literature dedicated to collecting and organizing reports of patients' diseases mysteriously going into remission These were patients who chose not to receive drugs or surgical treatment for disease Some were receiving minimal care for these diseases Their conditions were expected to worsen but instead they improved or disappeared, for good or for a period of time Scientists wanted to know what was going on and