Healing Essence: A Cancer Doctor’s Practical Program for Hope and Recovery
In this remarkable book, one of the nation’s top oncologists presents sixteen powerfully inspirational stories of his patients, whose battles with cancer, AIDS and other devastating illnesses formed the basis for a unique 28-day meditation program that has helped hundreds face their doubts, find strength and regain inner peace. Through a “guided imagery process” called ESSENCE, an acronym for “Experience, See, Surrender, Empower, Nurture, Create and Embody”, the program focuses on healing the mind as well as the body, and is designed to work alongside regular clinical treatments. The complexion of medicine today has changed: — According to a Harvard Medical School study, 69% of Americans used some form of alternative or complementary medicine in the previous year. — They spend close to billion annually on alternative therapies. — Prominent hospitals are incorporating alternative medicine into their clinical practice, or establishing alternative medicine divisions. — Insurance companies now reimburse customers for such alternative therapies as acupuncture and herbal treatments.
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Review by Nina Atwood for Healing Essence: A Cancer Doctor’s Practical Program for Hope and Recovery
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This book offers immediately usable healing processes that even those who are not familiar with meditation can use. I found Dr. Gaynor’s approach of healing from deep within the spiritual core to be immensely moving and transformational. I have used the processes myself with astonishing results, and I highly recommend this book to anyone with issues that need healing, whether physical, emotional, spiritual, or all three.
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Gaynor is now sounding just like Depak Chopra, Bernie Segal and Andrew Weil. There is not much new in this volume and it reads as if a ghost writer cranked it out according to a Gaynor “formula”. If this is the first time you’ve ever heard the empowered patient/you deserve a better doctor argument then this is not a bad quick fix. Gaynor’s earlier books have greater nutritional value and actual content. This is a beginner’s feel-better guide to a better cancer patient experience. It reminds me of Andrew Weil’s trick of repackaging the same stuff ten ways to create new selling “opportunities”.