The 12 Stages of Healing presents a model of healing that allows the reader to be more "OK" with their own healing process. By learning to identify yourself in one of the 12 stages, you begin to see that what is going with you is not necessarily a "problem", but rather part of a larger process. The simple act of identifying the stage you're in and then doing the easy breathing exercise designed to get that particular rhythym flowing is often enough to move you into the next stage. I have seen over and over again the natural accuracy of Dr. Epstein's model: the moving from a sense of helplessness, to the reaching out(or sometimes blaming!), to the perceiving the stuck patterns in myself and on and on. Use this book as a daily guide to life's challenges.

Dr. Epstein has help thousands of people get a new perspective of health and healing. The 12 stages model provides ideas for a new journey in understanding the healing process without the usual judgement of symptoms as bad or wrong. The book has some very easy exercises at the end of each chapter that can help integrate awareness to the body with breath and attention. A great book for those looking for a the bigger picture of health (from the inside out)

This book is both sensible and inspiring. Of particular value is the considerate and respectful focus upon ordinary landscapes in addition to well known, global sites with established powerful devic activity. Angel Falls and Ayers Rock, etc. are covered very well but Mr. Altman gives equal time to wildflowers and trees encountered in the urban Brooklyn landscape. A wide variety of earth based cultures are included for consideration of belief structures, myths, and energetic relationship to the devic realms. I'd love to buy this one for everybody I know - novice, scholar, and full throttle green men and women in the making.

The Ultimate Guide to Taking the Waters: From Hidden Springs to the World's Greatest Spas The first book to present medical evidence that mineral springs can prevent and cure disease--and to tell you which spas are most effective. * Lists more than 200 of the best hot springs and mineral springs in the world and the health conditions best treated at each, with a special emphasis on springs in the U.S. and Canada. * Reviews additional healing techniques that best complement bathing in and drinking medicinal waters--such as acupuncture, homeopathy, fasting programs, and fitness training. * Includes photos of everything from famous spas to little-known hot springs. The Fountain of Youth does exist! Author Nathaniel Altman shows that "taking the waters" is a powerful healing tool that rejuvenates the body and prevents a host of illnesses. Until now, it's been the best-kept secret for promoting and maintaining health and vitality.

I thought this book was wonderful. Filled with names and descriptions that helped me pick the pirfect name for my little "Montana Savanna" I suggest it for anyone.

I came across this book during my investigation into the medical uses of hydrogen peroxide. Altman presents a number of valid and useful facts regarding this astonishingly valuable (to medicine), yet cheaply produced substance.

However, as another reviewer (amazon3131) pointed out, there are a number of problems with this book. I won't duplicate what that reader said. Instead, let me point out a few more problems, out of many that could be cited.

On page 21, Altman writes, "The depletion of the ozone layer by the use of chloroflorocarbons (CFCs)--released into the atmosphere by refrigerators, air conditioners, and aerosol containers--has become a grave concern to scientists and physicians the world over. The dangerous ultraviolet light that would ordinarily be blocked by the ozone layer has been linked to a wide variety of human health problems, including skin cancer and immunosuppression. Ultraviolet radiation has also been a factor in poor growth of certain species of grains. After many years of study and much procrastination by industry and government, efforts are finally being made to phase out CFCs completely within the next few decades."

The main problem with the previous statement is that it is a political statement, not a scientific statement. In fact, ultraviolet light has been shown scientifically to be excellent for boosting immune systems, rather than immunosuppression. Dr. William Campbell Douglass's book, _Into The Light_, documents the overwhelming evidence about how powerful the application of ultraviolet light is directly to small samples of human blood, which is then re-injected back into the body. The list of diseases that have been successfully treated by UV light is even longer than that of hydrogen peroxide. Dr. Douglass is also an advocate of hydrogen peroxide therapy and advocates combining those therapies as "photox" therapy. Yet, Altman is conspicuously silent about this exciting treatment, and his blanket indictment of UV is therefore suspect.

Further, there is a substantial portion of the scientific and medical community which disagree with the assertion that CFCs are harmful, despite what Altman claims. As Ben Lieberman of the CATO Institute wrote in his article, "Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Costs Heat Up" there is evidence that CFCs are not, in fact, destroying the ozone layer, and scientists who previously advocated that theory are now backing off it. He writes, "But now a growing number of scientists are saying that the severity and imminence of the environmental threat has been overstated. The extent of ozone depletion and its predicted impacts are considerably less than once thought. Even those scientists responsible for sounding the alarm have backed away from a number of their more apocalyptic claims. Most notably, on February 3, 1992, NASA called an 'emergency' press conference to announce that severe ozone depletion over the Arctic and much of North America was imminent. The announcement received extensive television coverage and made the front page of many newspapers. However, a few months later, NASA quietly admitted that their prediction was wrong, but the little-noticed retraction was too little, too late to undo the effect on the (anti-CFC) law."

This sequence of events came a full three years BEFORE Altman's book was published in 1995.

Altman also uses poor documentation techniques to back some of his conclusions. For instance, on page 15, he cites a New York Times Magazine article as his source for showing that "a recent German study evaluating the side effects of over five million medically administered ozone treatments found that the adverse side effects was only 0.000005 per application. This figure is far lower than in any other type of medical therapy." Chances are good that the information is correct. The problem with this form of documentation is that it doesn't demonstrate any actual research by the author of the original source material. Presumably (we hope), the author of the article he cites, Natalie Angier, did her homework and actually found that information herself from the German study in question. It's disappointing that Altman didn't double-check that research himself, especially since he bragged on page 3 that he had visited with numerous experts in Europe, Russia, Cuba and the United States. Clearly, he had plenty of opportunity to double-check this reference. So why didn't he? There are a lot more references like this that are equally questionable.

These kinds of sloppy scholarship lead to greater skepticism of what should be an exciting and hope-filled topic.

When I studied genetics in college, the professor walked into class at the end of the semester, and announced that he was going to lecture on the last chapter after all.

"I was going to skip this chapter," he said, "but the way in which it was written was SO irritating to me, that I decided to cover it anyway."

I feel a little like that at the moment.

This book covers an interesting and important area of alternative medical therapy. There's a lot of good in this area, and there's much less potential for harm than in many such areas.

But there's also some very bad science. For example -- and I choose this one because you can look it up in the sample pages -- the author wants to you believe that there is proportionally three times as much Oxygen in dirt than in the air.

The author further claims that approximately two-thirds of your body is Oxygen. (In fact, there are more than twice as many Hydrogen atoms in your body than Oxygen -- I did mention that I'm a biologist, didn't I?)

And did you know that all cancer cells are anaerobic? (NOBODY can make human cells of any kind live or grow without oxygen -- not even Nobel prize winners from the 1960s.)

And so on, throughout much of the book.

But that doesn't mean that every recommendation is wrong -- there are a few things that I wouldn't touch if you paid me, but there are others that are helpful and more that are at least harmless -- but the theoretical basis is really quite inaccurate.

So if you will promise not to believe the theoretical underpinnings, then you might get some useful information out of this book. In short, you should use your common sense with this book -- just like you would for anything else related to your health.

P.S. Ozone, by the way, is NOT "energized oxygen"; it's three Oxygen molecules unstably and briefly linked together (O3 for short). Your cells CAN NOT use O3 for metabolic purposes. You MUST have O2 (normal oxygen gas) for that purpose.

But don't worry: O3 readily degrades into normal/useful O2, plus a single Oxygen free radical (but not usually enough of it to do you any real harm before it reacts with something else into a stable state).

Major oxygen therapies are referenced in this easy-to-read text.
The author covers major applications across a wide area of disease processes. There are some interesting applications
for heart defects with infectious endocarditis, AIDS and the
arthritic diseases. Heart baths in ozonated cardio-solutions
utilizing a heart-lung machine showed a reduction in death rate
complications according to the author's citations.
The use of autohomologous immunotherapy is described for
cancer treatments. Injections into the rectal tip provide
a direct mechanism for introducing ozone into the bloodstream
with positive results cited by Dr.Donsbach. An antioxidant
protocol is provided so that beta carotene, vitamins B,C and E
can be introduced utilizing organic foods. A raw food diet
is described from writings of the late Ms Wigmore DD, ND.
Her protocol is a radical departure from the standard junk-food
diet containing processed foods, sugar, gluten and animal
products/ bi-products. The Wigmore protocol is designed to
complement other medicinal protocols to accelerate the healing
process. Intestinal cleansing protocols are referenced to
discharge toxic matter and mucoid from the colon and small
intestine in order to promote natural healing. Some practitioners
favor combining this protocol with enzyme therapies aimed at
optimizing food digestion.A very positive experience is described
for gastroenteritis . It utilizes rectal insufflation to
introduce oxygen and ozone into the body with a cited cure rate
of 95% for children having had ozone therapy. The benefits
for hepatitis were more significant in hepatitis A patients;
whereas, the experience with hepatitis B remissions was more
problematic. The work is a good supplement to conventional
and alternative medicinal therapies. It may help where other
protocols have failed or require significant supplementation
in order to be effective maximally.

Es la primera vez que trato de entender el arte de la quiromancia y este libro me ha ayudado bastante a entender las lineas de las manos, ya que en un lenguaje simple y detallado da una clara prediccion de las manos, ademas esta claramente ilustrado, personalmente les recomniendo leer este libro si son principiantes como yo; les dara una clara idea del lenguaje de las manos.

This book is very informative. It takes some time to read and learn but is worth your time and money. I have been reading palms for over a year now and this book is the main book I read to learn the art. I love the book and I hope you'll like it too.

This book is very helpful in cheirology, however it leaves out some information. For beginners wanting a complete knowledge of palmistry, this book is a good start. Very easy to read!

This book was unremarkable compared to the 10-12 others I have read regarding the subject of asthma. All are good, but all fall short in one respect: their recommendations (or lack of reccomendations) on natural treatments for Asthma. Most Asthma books don't recommend any holistic/herbal remedies; they only recommend pharmaceutical drugs. A few Asthma books like these do recommend natural remedies, but these remedies are often unproven, and can be dangerous if mixed with other drugs/alcohol. I am really disappointed in all Asthma books in general, because they most often do not recommend the three most important ORTHOMOLECULAR Asthma remedies: Calcium, Magnesium, and Vitamin C. Calcium is simply there to balance magnesium and to chelate with ascorbate (vitamin C) to make calcium ascorbate. Magnesium relaxes lungs and improves air flow. Last and certainly not least, vitamin C has potent antihistamine effects via inhibiton of mast cell degranulation, and also has bronchodilator effects via inhibition of phosphodiesterase. Taking several grams
a day of vitamin C (preferably buffered calcium ascorbate), along with some magnesium may completely inhibit mild asthma, and should significantly help moderate to severe asthma, with no known drug interactions (except perhaps with Theophylline, which inhibits the same phosphodiesterase enzyme that vitamin C does). This information is referenced in the Allergies/Asthma chapter of my book "The Failures of American Medicine", available here at Amazon.com ...