Overview
In medicine, the mind, body, and spirit are one, and miraculous healing only occurs when that powerful triad is united.
Imagine being able to rid yourself of a host of medical or psychological maladies without medication or psychotherapy. You can—with noninvasive medical meditation, proven effective and one of the most overlooked forms of therapy available today.
Backed by scientific research and presented here by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth, bestselling authors of Brain Longevity and The Pain Cure, medical meditation utilizes an array of remarkable techniques that revolutionize how doctors and patients approach the healing process. Each medical meditation has a specific physiological effect, targeting afflictions from arthritis to ulcers to cancer. The clinical precision of this method is extraordinary, yet the meditations are surprisingly simple and can be done on your own, at home, at your own pace. Practiced in conjunction with conventional or alternative medical treatments, medical meditation activates the healing force within you.
Medical meditation balances and regenerates the body's ethereal and physical energies, forging an extraordinary healing alliance. Dr. Khalsa details the five unique attributes that endow this type of meditation with far more power than standard meditation: special postures and movements; exact positioning of the hands and fingers; particular mantras; specific breathing patterns; and a unique focus of concentration. The combination of those elements can change your entire profile of endocrine, neurotransmitter, and hormonal secretions, easing you into a calm, healing state.
This is not the meditation of yesterday. This cutting-edge advance in integrative medicine will help you live a healthier, pain-free, more balanced life.
About the Author:
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine and trained at the University of California at San Francisco and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Khalsa is board certified in anesthesiology, pain management, and antiaging medicine. He is president/medical director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation, and on the advisory board at the Miraval, Life in Balance resort in Tucson, where he conducts workshops on brain longevity and medical meditation. Dr. Khalsa is one of just a few individuals in the world who are both physicians and yogis.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewIncorporating the therapeutic benefits of meditation, the restorative benefits of yoga, and the healing power of positive thinking, Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa formulated Medical Meditation, a combination of kundalini yoga and meditation documented to improve spiritual and physical well-being. With ample statistics to support the legitimacy of Medical Meditation, inspiring stories of patients who have benefited from it, clear illustrations of various poses, and plenty of mantras, Meditation as Medicine serves as both a primer for those new to meditation or yoga, and a thorough guide to a groundbreaking new option for alleviating the pain of any number of physical maladies: ulcers, cancer, addiction, endometriosis, osteoporosis, and indigestion among them.
Dr. Khalsa -- a distinguished physician who is also a yogi trained by kundalini yoga master Yogi Bhajan -- begins with an excellent overview of meditation and the scientific support for its efficacy as a healing practice. Readers who are unfamiliar with the basics of meditation will find this outline of the eight chakras, the nadis, the five tattwas, and more, particularly helpful. Meditation as Medicine proceeds to detail the ways in which our bodies deteriorate as we age. Various glands become overworked and start to lose their ability to distribute appropriate amounts of the different hormones that keep the body in working condition, leading to a number of conditions, from cardiovascular problems to poor eyesight to Alzheimer's disease. Through Medical Meditation, Dr. Khalsa asserts, one can learn to stimulate those glands that need stimulation and thus improve the endocrine, immune, or nervous systems, as well as the psyche.
But in addition to the use of Medical Meditation as a deterrent to the onset of aging and its related ailments, Dr. Khalsa has also found that Medical Meditation can be used quite powerfully to help battle afflictions already in progress. The use of Medical Meditation in concert with traditional medical treatment is, for many, far more effective than the traditional treatment alone could have been. Dr. Khalsa cites numerous stories of patients he has treated who experienced miraculous recoveries following a regimen of Medical Meditation.
Providing extensive scientific support for his findings, Dr. Khalsa explains how and why Medical Meditation works. And, just as important, where no scientific proof is available, Dr. Khalsa points out that he is stating a professional belief. Often, these beliefs are well grounded in ancient science, but it is always valuable to note the instances in which modern research does not yet support certain hunches. Meditation as Medicine devotes a great deal of attention to the practice of Medical Meditation, offering abundant illustrations of different positions. Also included is an invaluable chart listing a host of possible ailments, which chakra they affect, and the particular form of Medical Meditation called for. Throughout the book, Dr. Khalsa's clear and approachable writing style makes accessible to the reader what could seem, in less capable hands, like intimidating scientific jargon.
As the complex relationship between the body and the mind continues to be explored, new findings consistently support the idea that the mind does, in fact, have the power to heal the body. Why not let Meditation as Medicine help you harness some of that power for your own benefit?
--Karen Burns