FOREWORD
rarely succeeds in teaching doctors how to get patients actively participate in their own healing. This is one of the major problems with medicine today and with doctors trained to focus on external solutions to their patients’ health problems. The modern-day approach of quick-fix solutions and an emphasis on “wonder” drugs often disregards the remarkable potential we all have to awaken our own extraordinary healing powers when we’re sick, and to use these healing powers to prevent disease from ever occurring. But in order to use these healing powers that we all have, we must tap into a system of the body that has been virtually ignored until now—the healing system. True and lasting healing can only occur when you work with this strong and seemingly mysterious odern medicine
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patients with diseases and condi tions of all kinds work with their healing systems in a variety of ways to combat sickness and restore their bodies and minds to a healthy state. I have even seen unconscious patients in intensive care units of hospitals heal themselves with a strong will to live that stimulates the healing system to go into high gear. Pay attention to the stories Dr. Brownstein shares in this book. They are all dramatic examples of the incredible power we all have to heal ourselves and the critical impor tance of looking within for permanent solutions to health problems. If you are sick or weak, or even if you’re just not feeling as good as you’d like to feel, your healing system may be slumbering, but it is just waiting to be called into action—and it is as necessary to your good health as your respiratory system and your digestive system. Try waking it up with the strategies and techniques you’ll find in this book, and you’ll experience the full range of your potential to seen