Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself (REVISED EDITION)

by Lissa Rankin M.D.

Overview

New York Times bestseller and beloved guide, revised and updated with up-to-the minute scientific and spiritual insight, teaches readers how to listen to their bodies and assess all areas of their lives—relational, psychological, creative, environmental, professional—to understand what they need for health.

"What a pleasure it is to see the next generation of physicians waking up to what I call real medicine—the kind that acknowledges our true power to heal and be well."
- Christiane Northrup, M.D., OB/GYN physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
 
When Mind Over Medicine was first published, it broke new ground in the fertile region where science and spirituality intersect. Through the process of restoring her own health, Dr. Lissa Rankin discovered that the conventional health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body's innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms with the power of our own consciousness.
To better understand this phenomenon, she explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years. She shared her findings and laid out a practical plan for readers to heal themselves in this profoundly wise book—a New York Times bestseller and now a classic guide for people who are on a healing journey from illness, injury, or trauma.

In the years since then, Dr. Rankin has deepened her exploration of the world's healing tradition and her understanding of the healing power we hold within ourselves—if only we can tap into it. This revised edition of Mind Over Medicine reflects her latest research, evolving wisdom, and work with clients and students in her healing community, as well as with doctors and other healers in her Whole Health Medicine Institute.

Inside, readers will discover:


   • A thorough update of Dr. Rankin's signature Six Steps to Healing Yourself

   • New insight into how unresolved trauma can stand in the way of healing from chronic and life-threatening illnesses-and powerful tools we can use to heal it

   • How to tune in to our Inner Pilot Light for intuitive guidance in our healing

And much more

"The healing that is possible may be right here," Dr. Rankin writes, "closer than close, underneath all your efforting and striving, available if you are ready to humble yourself before this possibility and receive what awaits you."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401959883
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	06/09/2020
Pages:	344
Sales rank:	189,948
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Author Bio: Lissa Rankin, M.D., is a physician, the New York Times best-selling author of six books, a researcher of the phenomenon of "spontaneous" remission, an expert in the intersection of science and the sacred, and the founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute, a transformational training program focusing on consciousness and healing for health-care providers and healers. The last seven years, she adventured around the globe researching Sacred Medicine,the follow-up to Mind Over Medicine. This journey down the rabbit hole led her to study with shamans in Peru, Qigong masters from China, Balinese healers, Native American medicine men and women, Hawaiian kahunas, mind-body medicine doctors, and energy healers, trauma therapists, and biofield scientists in her home country. Dr. Rankin's passion for self-healing led to two national public television specials, four TEDx talks that have been viewed over 5 million times, and an online community of people practicing the Six Steps To Healing Yourself at HealingSoulTribe.com. She leads workshops, both online and at retreat centers like Esalen, 1440, Omega, and Kripalu. Her latest philanthropic social justice project, Heal At Last, is committed to eliminating the public health epidemic of loneliness while bringing cutting-edge healing modalities to anyone who feels ready to do this deep inner work, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, or gender identity.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition xi

Introduction xix

Part 1 Optimize the Placebo Effect

Chapter 1 The Shocking Truth about Your Health Beliefs 3

Chapter 2 The Surefire Way to Make Yourself Sick and Prevent Disease Remission 23

Chapter 3 The Healing Factor That Can Make All the Difference 45

Part 2 Treat Your Mind

Chapter 4 The Whole Health Cairn 73

Chapter 5 Loneliness Poisons the Body 91

Chapter 6 Death by Overwork 113

Chapter 7 Happiness Is Preventive Medicine 133

Chapter 8 How to Counteract the Stress Response 165

Part 3 The Six Steps to Healing Yourself

Chapter 9 The Six Steps to Healing Yourself 185

Appendix A 8 Tips for How to Be in Your Body 257

Appendix B 10 Factors That Support Radical Remission 259

Continue Your Self-Healing Journey 261

Endnotes 263

Index 283

Acknowledgments 295

About the Author 299

Editorial Reviews

The revised edition of Dr. Lissa Rankin's groundbreaking work, Mind Over Medicine, goes even deeper into how our emotions and traumas can contribute to disease, and her new 6 Steps to Healing Yourself are a glorious guide for anyone looking to jump-start their healing, whether it be physical, emotional, spiritual, or all of the above.
Kelly A. Turner, Ph.D., New York Times best-selling author of Radical Remission and Radical Hope

In this updated edition of an original gem, Dr. Lissa Rankin joins the hard-earned wisdom of her own healing journey with the science of mind/body unity. Doing so, she gifts us with a primer on the impact of personal transformation on physiological health and a unique guide to achieving mental and physical well-being.
Gabor Maté, M.D., author of When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress/Disease Connection

This revised edition of Mind Over Medicine takes a fresh look at the research informing the original classic that has been the go-to book for so many people who have been awakening to their capacity to take unprecedented control of their health, well-being, and destiny.
Jeffrey Rediger, M.D., M.Div., Harvard Medicine School faculty, author of CURED: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing

As a physician, teacher, and writer, I'd like to recommend this book to ALL of my patients! Dr. Rankin summarizes, with simple and descriptive detail, how anyone can engage the most powerful healer of all-their own body.
Rachel Carlton Abrams, M.D., M.H.S., ABoIM, author of BodyWise: Discovering Your Body's Intelligence for Lifelong Health and Healing

Lissa Rankin's Mind Over Medicine is a gift to us all. Lissa's clarity, compassion, and truth-telling wisdom shine throughout this book and take us on a journey out of victimhood into science-based healing empowerment. If you're ready to open to the magic of your healing journey, read this book.
Dr. Shamini Jain, founder and CEO, Consciousness and Healing Initiative; Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego 

Lissa Rankin is a true scientist in the sense that she follows the data even though it challenges some of what she wrote in her best-selling first edition of this book. In this new edition, her delightfully personal and engaging writing style brings to life her journey of discovery regarding not only the mind's power to heal . . . but also the fact that there are parts of many people that fear or aren't ready for healing. The inclusion of a step addressing this constraint makes her program comprehensive and fully effective. It's a beautiful and important book!
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., creator of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy

What a pleasure it is to see the next generation of physicians waking up to what I call real medicine-the kind that acknowledges our true power to heal and be well.
Christiane Northrup, M.D., OB/GYN physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

In her life, her work, and her words, Dr. Rankin demonstrates a new way to combine the brilliance of modern science with the wisdom of the heart. . . . Just reading Mind Over Medicine is a genuinely healing experience.
Martha Beck, Ph.D., author of Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

Being my own inner physician for years means that I'm SUPER thrilled about Dr. Lissa Rankin's brilliant new book, Mind Over Medicine. . . . Lissa's writing style is so exuberant and deep at the same time, it makes me feel like I can do handstands on the ocean!
SARK, author of 16 books, artist, and founder of PlanetSARK.com

Mind Over Medicine modernizes age old messages of wisdom and makes them easier to understand and apply to modern day lifestyles. This book contains much wisdom in easy-to-apply lessons we can all learn from.
Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles

With humor, warmth, and compelling research, Dr. Lissa Rankin's Mind Over Medicine begins to heal the most critical fracture of our time-the break between our mind, bodies, and spirit.
Brené Brown, Ph.D., New York Times best-selling author of Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Lissa Rankin is a modern day miracle worker with a message the world needs to hear.
Chris Guillebeau, New York Times best-selling author of The $100 Startup

This is a compelling, clear, and reader-friendly vision of where medicine and healing are headed, written by an expert medical insider who's been there. Buy two copies-one for you and one for your doctor.
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine, Healing Words, and One Mind

WOW! Just wow! That is how I feel about Lissa Rankin's work! Everything she says rings so true to me, and her voice, as a professional medical doctor, is just what is needed in today's drug dependent society. Bravo, Lissa for having the courage to speak out and share your truth. This world needs more like you!
Anita Moorjani, New York Times best-selling author of Dying to Be Me

An M.D. herself, Rankin takes on the establishment from the inside out, building a compelling argument for a new approach to health and healing that puts the patient in the driver's seat. Prepare to have your mind blow . . . and your body healed.
Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty and founder of the Good Life Project 

Lissa Rankin sheds scientific and mystical light on our ability to self-heal. She is a doctor for those of us who know in our bones that vitality is ours for the making.
Danielle LaPorte, author of The Fire Starter Sessions

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