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NATIVE AMERICAN / HEALTH Native American healers expect miracles and prepare in all ways possible for them to occur. In modern medicine, miraculous recoveries are discarded from studies as anomalous cases that will taint the otherwise orderly results. Yet this small group of "miracle" patients has everything to teach us about healing and survival. Coyote Healing distills the common elements in miracle cures to help people start their own healing journey. Looking at a hundred cases of individuals who experienced miracle cures and examining the energies, attributes, and teachings implicit within the Four Directions and how they relate to body-mind healing, Dr. Mehl-Madrona reveals that survivors found purpose and meaning in their life-threatening illness; peaceful acceptance was key to their healing. Coyote Healing also tells of another kind of miracle--finding faith, hope, and serenity even when a cure seems impossible. LEWIS MEHL-MADRONA, M.D., is a board-certified family physician, psychiatrist, and geriatrician. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He worked for over twenty-five years in emergency medicine in both rural and academic settings and is currently the Coordinator of Integrative Psychiatry and Systems Medicine for the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine. He is the author of the bestselling Coyote Medicine.
List of contents
Foreword by Larry Dossey, M.D.
Introduction
1 What Is a Miracle?
2 The Miracle of Peacefulness
3 Finding the Inner Healer
4 The Healing Journey: Medicine Wheel
5 The East: Discovering Spirit
6 The South: Discovering Emotion
7 The West: Discovering the Body
8 The North: Discovering Mind and Community
9 The Power of Ceremony
10 Hearing Stories, Changing Stories
Notes
About the author
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.
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"An enlightening book, it will hold you spellbound with its hands-on approach to healing, and wellness. Those interested in Native American healing will find this a highly enjoyable reading and learning experience."
