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Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind: Revolutionary Methods to Release All Barriers to Health, Healing and Happiness Paperback – March 28, 2012

by Henry Grayson (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
"Why do I keep doing this when I know it's not what I want or need to be doing?"     Psychologist Henry Grayson has discovered that everybody wants a healthy and happy life, yet most people are unsuccessful in adhering to their doctor's instructions, or in maintaining healthy habits they know would help them to achieve their goals of happiness and health.
     Through years of research and helping his private clients, Dr. Grayson has developed a step-by-step formula to identify what keeps them stuck repeating unproductive activities.
We unconsciously imbed a false belief system within our psyche about our selves and others while experiencing unavoidable life situations, negative encounters, traumas, and absorbing informational messages around us from others. The mind processes and stores these experiences in the limbic system, our survival brain. In those moments of experience, we automatically instill a false survival mechanism or thought about what is truly happening and the limbic system stores it like software in our brain. This unconscious survival procedure we now adopt as a solution to deal with extraordinary physical or mental stress is now reactivated each time a circumstance brings an emotional charge or stress. More often than not, we bring a machine gun to a little threat.
     You will learn how to identify the origins of automatic, and most often, unconscious behaviors through informational questionnaires, easy to do exercises, and clear explanations on how to become more aware of conscious thought patterns that contribute to this vicious cycle of trying but not succeeding in long term positive actions. If we don't identify and clear out barriers, many of which are not conscious, then thinking positive thoughts, holding positive images, getting exercise and taking the right medications and supplements may do us little good. Cumulative traumatic or painful experiences are stored in our limbic system-- our survival brain-- and studies have shown a stunning connection between these and current illnesses.
     This knowledge has been the source of groundbreaking scientific fields including biopsychosocial medicine, psychoneuroimmunology and epigenetics, all of which have changed the traditional reductionist view of allopathic medicine. In Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind, Dr. Grayson draws on his understanding of this work and combines it with new insights in Western Psychology, the mind-expanding inner wisdom of Eastern philosophy and the science of quantum physics to explore the core of what keeps us from embracing a healthy and productive life.      He explains how our bodies are made up of energy that respond to conscious thought, how those thoughts make us sick, and how to clear out past traumas (with proven meridian methods we can do ourselves) and self-destructive inner dialogs to open the door to self healing.Unlike television talk show psychology, which relies on superficial stories, Use Your Body to Heal       Your Mind dives into the guilt-ridden waters of our deepest traumas that are often hidden from our conscious minds. He works to clear away these blocks through techniques that have proven as effective on combat veterans battling post traumatic stress disorder as on civilians plagued by depression, chronic illness and disorders previously thought to be untreatable. The result is more than a return to good health-- it is the understanding that we deserve health and happiness and have the methods to make it possible.
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    336 pages
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  3. Publisher
    Balboa Pr
  4. Publication date
    March 28, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1452545014
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1452545011
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"Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind is a wonderfully practical, "how-to" discussion of many ways you can invite self healing into your life. Therapists as well as newcomers to this field will find much of benefit in this gem." Daniel Benor, MD, author of Seven Minutes to Natural Pain Relef

"Dr. Henry Grayson is a master in helping anyone overcome their hidden barriers to health and vitality. He is an expert in identifying the obstructions we unconsciously use as blocks in achieving our potential. If you aspire to the upper echelons of health, yet are unable to realize them, this practical book is for you."

~ Larry Dossey, MD
Author: Healing Words, Reinventing Medicine, and The Power of Premonitions

"Henry Grayson's powerful message in Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind is to pay attention to what your bodily sensations are telling you and attend to them with love, compassion and understanding. Then you will be able to expand your worldview to include the magical possibility that miracles of healing are the natural order of the universe."

Larry Burk, MD, CEHP, is President of Healing Imager, Inc. and author of Let Magic Happen: Adventures in Healing with a Holistic Radiologist.

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In this leading edge book, Dr. Henry Grayson shares his discovery from research that we all have barriers to total health and healing. These barriers keep us from doing what we know would help us heal or be healthy.Our Barriers Come From:
  • Uncleared Traumas such as: intrauterine, unremembered, genetic memories, and possibly past lives
  • Painful developmental experiences
  • Negative beliefs about ourselves, life, and what is possible and not possible
  • Downloads from our original families
  • Tribal and family beliefs about who has to get sick and how
  • Our thousands of negative thoughts each day
He teaches revolutionary ways to identify these barriers (many unconscious) along with powerful techniques that relieve the limbic system of the burden of accumulated traumas to free up energy for a strengthened immune system response needed to heal. If we keep piling up our systems with trauma after trauma, pile on negative beliefs day after day, and react with unawareness and negativity due to family downloads we keep ourselves sick. As Grayson clearly demonstrates, in a quantum world, we have infinite potentiality.If you are interested in how you can take charge in creating good health and happiness most of the time, this book is for you.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Balboa Pr
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 28, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1452545014
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1452545011
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

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Dr. Henry Grayson is on the cutting edge of mind/body/spirit psychology. The founder of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City, Dr. Grayson was a Protestant minister before receiving his Ph.D. in psychology from Boston University and post-doctoral certification in psychoanalysis from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. This rich background led him to his work in spiritually based, mind body energy psychology and his creation of Synergetic Therapy.

He is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York; the Founder and Director of the Institute for Spirituality, Science and Psychotherapy; and continues to appear in numerous documentaries and PBS specials. He has studied neuropsychology, the major psychotherapies, the new power therapies, quantum physics and Eastern and Western spiritual philosophies. He is the author of Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind: Revolutionary Methods to Release All Barriers to Health, Healing and Happiness, Mindful Loving: 10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connections and the best selling CD Audio Series for Sounds True,The New Physics of Love: The Power of Mind & Spirit in Relationships. His academic titles include Three Psychotherapies: A Clinical Comparison, Short Term Approaches to Psychotherapy, and Changing Approaches To The Psychotherapies. In addition, he is the co-chairman of the PTSD division of the Stand Up For Your Troops Foundation.

Dr. Grayson’s professional affiliations include: Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Psychology; member of the American Psychological Association, The New York State Psychological Association, The Connecticut Psychological Association, The Association for Transpersonal Psychology, The Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Society for the Scientific Study of Subtle Energies Medicine, EMDR International Association, a former Board Member of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, and is the Founder and Past President of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy. Diplomat of The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.

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  • kcbsld
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2015
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  • Jed Shlackman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional guide to a paradigm shift in healing
    Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2012
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    Dr. Grayson is an articulate presenter of the holistic paradigm of healing, where consciousness governs our reality and our thoughts and feelings are essential factors in our states of wellness and illness. This paradigm is one supported by both ancient wisdom and modern discoveries in physics, biology, and medicine. This worldview underlies many healing methods that seek to release energy blocks, limiting beliefs, and trapped emotions. Ancient cultures used shamanic methods and rituals to facilitate healing transformations. In our present society, methods that help us recognize and release limiting beliefs include muscle testing (an application of kinesiology) and applying stimuli to acupressure points (EFT/TFT). The new paradigm of consciousness in medicine (energy and information) isn't really new. It is an understanding that has been lost or covered up over time as material technology and chemical manipulation have dominated medicine and other sciences.

    Grayson's book explores the nature of reality and the evidence for the mystical perspective where consciousness connects us all and gives us the power to heal ourselves. This book has many excellent quotes and includes practical exercises (mainly ones related to TFT and EFT) to help readers address their own unconscious beliefs. The book informs us that we often have unconscious beliefs and intentions that lead us to create and maintain illnesses. Merely repeating positive affirmations won't work well if we don't clear out those unconscious beliefs/programs. That is why these energy psychology techniques are so important, for they help shift the beliefs/thinking and emotions at the level of consciousness from where our reality is being created.

    Grayson cites many sources and much evidence to show how our emotions affect our health and are keys to understanding how illness is created and how it can be healed. This book is best read carefully, so that you can really absorb and integrate the wisdom it shares. As one opens up to the empowering perspective it shares then he/she also opens to healing, and will be ready to more effectively apply the exercises presented in the book.

    This book can truly help you release stress and traumas of all kinds, and empower you to heal yourself. It pulls together science and spirituality, enabling people from both spiritual and religious as well as empirical science backgrounds to connect with these understandings and healing approaches. For anyone who enjoys writers like Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Deepak Chopra, Gregg Braden, Bruce Lipton, and Marianne Williamson, the ideas in this book will seem familiar. Using that spiritual wisdom to empower your own healing process is the focus of Dr. Grayson's book. I highly recommend it. As a practitioner of mind-body and energetic healing modalities and an author on metaphysical topics myself, I appreciate the truth of what is being shared by Dr. Grayson and others who are at the forefront of the re-awakening of healing wisdom in our culture.
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  • Cudgel
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great overview of the energy therapies
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2013
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    Useful for therapists and clients alike. Much coverage of EFT and similar therapies. Grayson has a warm conversational style that will pull you in. Excellent introduction to energy therapies.
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  • Asta
    3.0 out of 5 stars Too much focus on mind rather than feeling and intuition
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2016
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    The main idea is good, but the approach is a bit superficial and masculine. The guy relies too much on mind and not enough on feeling and intuition. It's very similar to the book I read before. But, as in that previous book, there are many good insights, too.
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  • Sam M
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best Self Help book Ever
    Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2012
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    I have read many self help books but this is the best one ever. Dr Grayson corrects the common misconception that we are merely bodies created by a random collsion of a sperm and an ovum. The misconception continues as we grow up. We have many experiences of growing up and away from mother, then other people. Now we develop beliefs that we are separate-alone and isolated from each other-subject to random illnesses.

    Dr. Grayson substitutes a spiritual world view. We are all emanations of one spiritual source. Thus, we are all connected in Spirit. The separation is only apparent-not real. Our illnesses are results of the separation and misconception. Negative beliefs, thoughts and feelings arise from the imagined separation. Illnesses can be healed by clearing the traumas behind the negative beliefs,as well as the fear, anger and guilt the separation engenders.

    Dr. Grayson uses personal and patient examples of healing to inspire. Then he gives practical techniques to clear the trauamas, change the beliefs and stimulate biochemical changes to heal the body. The techniques from energy psychology and cognitive therapy direct the body to heal upon orders from the mind. You listen to your body for clues as to what is really wrong, then correct the orders for illness. You now order vibrant health. This readable explanation of body-mind health is a must read for all practicioners and people who want to get better.
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  • T Love
    5.0 out of 5 stars Science Meets Spirituality
    Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2012
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    This is a book everyone will be grateful to have read. It is not academic. You will learn a lot not just from the written words but from the tests, which when taken, will allow you to truly get past so many issues. Some you may not even realize are there. You will find you have stress relief, loss of anxiety, better health, the ability to move forward much faster and with freedom in your life even before you finish the book. There are easy processes that guide you, suggestions that are quick and not at all difficult to incorporate into your day. I was overwhelmed by the amount of information provided in a simple to read 268 page book. From the basics of how we work to the ability to really learn and know how we can change and heal ourselves - it's all here. It's a fabulous manual for living your best life. As an energy therapist I will highly recommend this book to all of my clients and patients. I believe Dr. Grayson has given us a vital tool in USE YOUR BODY TO HEAL YOUR MIND which would be of benefit to anyone and everyone who reads it.
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  • Ashley Tatianna
    1.0 out of 5 stars There is a lot of repetition and it feels like in order to get to the good stuff
    Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2016
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    I started reading his book and personally it did not fit my needs. There is a lot of repetition and it feels like in order to get to the good stuff, to the substance part of the book you have to read through fluff first. It hasn't showed me how to quiet my mind and my own criticism, it's just seems like a lot of suggestions and approaches that may or may not work. It's not to say that it wouldn't work for someone else but I personally didn't like it.
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  • Michael O. Schwager
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2014
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    Henry Grayson was my guest for the hour on The Enrichment Hour. He is erudite, wise and compassionate.
    His book holds many answers for those challenged on life's path - which is most of us. Highly recommended!
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  • elevellel
    5.0 out of 5 stars recovery
    Reviewed in Canada on August 21, 2018
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    useful for a broken spirit
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  • ellen
    5.0 out of 5 stars I found this a very useful aid to start working through my backlog of trauma
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2015
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    I found this a very useful aid to start working through my backlog of trauma. it's got lots of lists but you need something like that to make sense of the myriad of issues in anyone's past.
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    Reviewed in Germany on April 16, 2016
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    Very Good Experience...
    The order arrived in time, as promised in a good state.
    Satisfied with the whole process and would recommend it.
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  • hayley Morris
    5.0 out of 5 stars USE YOUR BODY TO HEAL YOUR MIND
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2013
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    A brilliant book that inspires life-changing action. Unlike many other books I have purchased, I have re-read it many times. It is one of, if not THE, best books I have ever read.

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 29, 2016
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    Brilliant book.
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