Healing myths, healing magic : breaking the spell of old illusions : reclaiming our power to heal

**__Healing Myths, Healing Magic__** examines the deeply ingrained stories, or myths, we commonly hold about how our bodies heal — myths that can actually inhibit healing. In this breakthrough book, Epstein divides the healing myths into four categories: social, biomedical, religious, and new age. He exposes each myth individually, then suggests an alternative, or Healing Magic, to help us reclaim our body’s natural ability to heal. Even as healthcare technology makes great strides, studies show that the attitude of a person suffering from chronic illness may hold the most sway over the healing process. This book shows that the first step in adopting a positive attitude toward health lies in dismissing harmful myths. "I must forgive before I can heal." "I am sick because God is punishing me." "If it doesn't feel good, it must be an effective medicine." These are outdated concepts that can slow healing -- or make an illness worse. Donald Epstein divides these myths into four categories: social, biomedical, religious/spiritual, and New Age. He discusses each myth individually -- from "healing is expensive" to "every condition can be traced to a demonstrable physical cause" -- and offers replacement myths, or "Healing Magic," to be both meditated upon and declared out loud by the reader in order to create an opportunity for healing.

"...examines commonly held, deeply engrained myths about how our bodies heal...offers replacement myths, or 'healing magic', creating an opportunity for healing."

We each have our myths about how our bodies heal. In this text, Donald Epstein divides these myths into four categories - social, biomedical, spiritual, and new age - and engages in individual discussions of each, revealing the limitations imposed by oldbeliefs Examines commonly held myths and ingrained stories about how the body heals