Coyote Wisdom: The Power of Story in Healing

Zusatztext "Rather than a book of Native American stories! Coyote Wisdom successfully demonstrates how to . . . reinterpret and re-author the story of illness into one of health and well-being." Informationen zum Autor Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician, associate professor at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, and executive director of the Coyote Institute for Studies of Change and Transformation. The author of several books, including Narrative Medicine and Coyote Medicine , he lives in Orono, Maine. Klappentext NATIVE AMERICAN / SPIRITUALITY "With his stories, I have seen Dr. Mehl-Madrona heal patients that all other physicians had given up on. The stories in this book are healing in and of themselves. Just reading them brings hope where there may have been none." --David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., author of The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy "Coyote Wisdom is an inspired book about how the spoken word can transform disease. Lewis Mehl-Madrona offers a perspective much needed by medicine today: that stories matter. Just encouraging patients to tell their stories and listening to them with full attention can increase the probability of spontaneous healings. Doctors and patients have much to gain by incorporating this wisdom into their lives." --Andrew Weil, M.D., author of 8 Weeks to Optimal Health and Spontaneous Healing "In Coyote Wisdom, Lewis Mehl-Madrona writes that patients' stories hold clues for how we can best help them. This is another way of saying that beliefs, values, and culture influence treatment. Medicine can work so much better by appreciating this." --Thom Hartmann, bestselling author of Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight and The Edison Gene Stories are powerful sources of meaning that shape and transform our lives. We tell stories to track our process of personal and spiritual growth and to honor and respect the journeys we have made. Through stories we are provided with experiences of spiritual empowerment that can lead to transformation. In Coyote Wisdom, Lewis Mehl-Madrona explores the healing use of stories passed down from generation to generation in Native American culture and describes how we can apply this wisdom to empower and transform our own lives. A storytelling approach to transformation starts with how we were created and how we can re-create ourselves through the stories we tell. As we explore the archetypal characters and situations that populate the inner world of our stories, we can experience breakthroughs of healing and even miracles of transformation. This approach to healing runs counter to the current model of modern psychology. The stories we tell about ourselves may model our lives, but by introducing new characters and plots, we can come to see ourselves in a new way. LEWIS MEHL-MADRONA, M.D., Ph.D., is certified in family practice, geriatrics, and psychiatry and worked for years in rural emergency medicine. He is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Arizona and is also affiliated with its College of Public Health. He is the author of Coyote Healing and the bestselling Coyote Medicine. from Chapter 1 Creation Stories . . . . I use creation stories to inspire people to uncover their own creation stories--the story about how their illness came into being. One of my favorites is the Hopi creation story. Since this is not a book about Native American stories but about how they are used for healing, I want to tell this story as I told it to Kathryn, a thirty-year-old woman with lupus. To really hear a story and to absorb its fullness, we need to be relaxed. Our mind needs to be still. The brain circuits that make lists, plan our day, remember all of our errands becomes inactive during states of prayer and meditation. When this circuit is quiet, the right tem...

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Mehl-Madrona
• Publisher: BEAR & CO., INC.,
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2005
• EAN: 9781591430292
• ISBN: 978-1-59143-029-2
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology