Meta-Physician on Call for Better Health: Metaphysics and Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit (Practical and Applied Psychology)

steven E. Hodes, M.d., Initially Trained In Traditional, High-caliber Medical Programs That Led Him Through Graduation At The Albert Einstein Medical School And To A Fellowship At Mount Sinai Hospital. But Many Years Later, He Saw Something Vital Missing In His Approach To Healthcare. I Was Trained As A Physician, Not A Healer…taught To View The Patient As A Machine Suffering From Some Mechanical Failure. My Purpose Was To Be The Best Diagnostician Possible, He Explains. Then Events Occurred That Opened The Eyes Of This Now Veteran Physician To Deep Insights About The Mind-body-spirit Connection. That Awakening Moved Him To A Metaphysical View Of Health—a View More Spiritual Than Religious, But Still Firmly Grounded In Science. Embracing His Role As A Metaphysician, He Also Began To See Himself As A Meta-physician, Or Doctor Transformed (meta) By This New Awareness. In This Book, Hodes Describes His Journey To Becoming A Metaphysician On Call. He Points Out Profound, Yet Simple, Observations And Beliefs That Affect Our Perception Of The Nature Of Reality—metaphysics—which, In Turn, Can Largely Affect Our Well-being In All Senses—body, Mind, And Spirit. We All Can And Should Take Responsibility For Our Own Well-being On All Levels, He Explains. This Book Is Designed To Inspire Us To Ask Our Own Questions, And Gather Our Own Evidence To Enhance All Areas Of Our Lives And Well-being, And So Find Healing And Peace. Contents 8 Series Foreword 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction 14 Part I: My Personal Journey 18 Chapter 1. From Physican to Meta-Physician: My Personal Journey from Physician to Healer 20 Part II: The Metaphysical Journey 40 Chapter 2. Metaphysics—What Does It Mean? 42 Chapter 3. Truth about the Metaphysical Journey—Embracing the Power to Choose 48 Chapter 4. Solving Life's Mysteries—Why We Search for Knowledge 51 Chapter 5. Creating Our Own Reality 53 Chapter 6. Anatomy of a Belief 55 Part III: Science and Mind 62 Chapter 7. Healing the Heart–Mind Divide 64 Chapter 8. Science and Spirituality: Metaphysics of the Unexplained 67 Chapter 9. Are We Ever Out of Our Minds? 70 Chapter 10. Are We Hard-Wired for Bliss? 72 Chapter 11. Darkness and Light 75 Part IV: Testing Credibility—How Do You Know What's Real? 78 Chapter 12. The Credibility Quotient 80 Part V: Spiritual View on the Nature of Life: Inspirations from Kabbalah and Buddha 102 Chapter 13. Born Again: Reincarnation and Karma 104 Chapter 14. Death as a Transition, Not a Tragedy 108 Chapter 15. Suffering Is Not Punishment 111 Chapter 16. Managing Our Imperfections 113 Chapter 17. Spiritually Correct Forgiveness 115 Chapter 18. Kavanah: The Intention to Do Good 119 Part VI: Choosing Healing as a Way of Life 122 Chapter 19. Healing—What Does It Really Mean? 124 Chapter 20. Healing through Gratitude 127 Chapter 21. Healing through Happiness 130 Chapter 22. Healing through Sadness 133 Chapter 23. Age of Addiction 135 Chapter 24. The Placebo Effect: Proof of the Mind–Body Connection? 138 Chapter 25. Obesity and How to Avoid It: A Weighty Metaphysical Topic 141 Part VII: Dr. Steve's Prescriptions for Calling Forth Your Inner Meta-Physician 144 Chapter 26. Twenty-seven Ways to Embrace Your Innter Meta-Physician 146 Chapter 27. Labyrinth or Maze: Which Path Will You Choose? 165 Glossary 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 181 Index 185 About the Author 191