Mind Over Medicine

Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

By: Lissa Rankin

Narrated by: Lissa Rankin

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

We have been led to believe that when we get sick, it’s our genetics. Or it’s just bad luck - and doctors alone hold the keys to optimal health. For years, Lissa Rankin, M.D., believed the same. But when her own health started to suffer and she turned to Western medical treatments, she found that they not only failed to help - they made her worse. So she decided to take matters into her own hands.

Through her research, Dr. Rankin discovered that the health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body’s innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms using the power of the mind. In an attempt to better understand this phenomenon, she explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that, for the past 50 years, the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself.

Using extraordinary cases of spontaneous healing, Dr. Rankin shows how thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can alter the body’s physiology. She lays out the scientific data proving that loneliness, pessimism, depression, fear, and anxiety damage the body, while intimate relationships, gratitude, meditation, sex, and authentic self-expression flip on the body’s self-healing processes.

By the time you finish listening to Mind Over Medicine, you’ll have made your own diagnosis, written your own prescription, and created a clear action plan designed to help make your body ripe for miracles.

©2013 Hay House (P)2013 Hay House

Lissa has such a soothing voice!

This book is so encouraging to listen to. It’s for people who want to take control of their health and feel empowered when working with healthcare providers. Lissa’s voice is so easy to listen to. It’s like listening to a friend give advice. This is a book I would like to give a copy of to every health professional I work with or even know. It also happens to be one of the only health/self help books I was able to listen to from start to finish. It’s not too long, not too short. Highly recommended!

best personal development book

It's more than just "tell yourself you love you." it actually gives you steps to heal.

Starts evidence based, then gets a bit "out there"

The beginning was scientific enough to appeal to the logic of both patients and healthcare professionals (I'm a pharmacist). I say all the time that my truest hope is for my own patients to put me out of business; I want to see you healthy and off of all your medications! This book is a good starting point to potentially make that happen. It all starts with the individual taking a personal responsibility for their own health, and not relying on prescription medications to cure you, because most of them don't! They only treat the symptoms. I loved the parts about the stress response in your body and how it creates an environment that is anti-conducive to healing. The last half regarding ways to heal yourself though, gets a little more out there. The idea of the whole health cairn is a good way to take a well rounded look at your health and how it relates to your life; what needs to change for you to be less stressed and thus healthier?

Really very possible

Would you consider the audio edition of Mind Over Medicine to be better than the print version?

I haven't read the print version as I prefer audio books.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Mind Over Medicine?

I loved the whole concept.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

Any additional comments?

Fantastic ideas and I think very very possible. I believe, it's a great book loved it.

Life changing for me

Would you consider the audio edition of Mind Over Medicine to be better than the print version?

I read the print version first and downloaded the meditation by Lissa Rankin. I've watched a video of her as well, so I am very familiar with her voice. I was disappointed that although it says the audio version is narrated by her, it is not. That said, the narrator does a good job and is enjoyable to listen to.

Any additional comments?

I have been dealing with some long term health issues. This book introduced concepts to me that I had never thought of before. It gives me hope and makes me feel like I have more control over my wellness than I thought.

A Whole New Way to Look at Healing!

Loved Lissa's reasoning and research into spontaneous healing and what is needed to heal yourself in a medical optimal or non optimal situation. Love it and highly recommend the book to all who wonder if the mind is more powerful than the body.

I believe it

a great balance guide of both medical communities. an easy listen. i will check out her website

Wonderful

This book can benefit everyone. It’s a must read. I found it inspirational and she backs much by her analytical mind and research.

Very helpful!

Very helpful audiobook with pleasant voice!
I recommend this audiobook mainly for health professionals. Congratulations Doctor Lissa Rankin!

she won me over...i'm a believer

I'm a believer in evidence-based medicine, but I also believe there is some cosmic force that is bigger than just science. Whether that is spirituality, self-healing, or something else, this book gives you much research and scientific evidence that there is 'something else' going on. What a wonderful book. I'm such a fan that I subscribed to her webpage and get her daily emails on 'listening to your own pilot light.' I also have the physical hardcopy of the book. The narration by the author is excellent. She has several TEDx talks, which I highly recommend if you'd like to get a glimpse of what this is all about. I highly recommend this book.