BadgeI recently joined the Hay House Book Nook Blogger Program, which means I will start reviewing Hay House products on my blog. This new partnership is a great fit for my blog and my evolving journey because all of Hay House’s products have a positive self-help slant and are encourage people to heal themselves and our planet Earth.

How amazing is that! I’ve been a Hay House fan ever since I read  You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay back in the 1980s.

The first book I’m reviewing for Hay House is Mind Over Medicine by Lissa Rankin.

About the Book…

Mind Over Medicine by Lissa Rankin

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 with the power of the mind. In an attempt to better understand this phenomenon, she explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years.

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, and authentic self-expression flip on the body’s self-healing processes.

This is a perfect book for my scientist husband because he would need hard core scientific data to believe things like gratitude and authentic self-expression can trigger the body’s self-healing process. I innately believe this to be true…but now I have the data to make up my intuition.

Create a Customized Treatment Plan

In the final section of the book, Lissa Rankin shares a radical new wellness model based on her scientific findings. Her unique six-step program can help you uncover where things might be out of whack in your life — spiritually, creatively, environmentally, nutritionally, and in your professional and personal relationships so that you can create a customized treatment plan aimed at bolstering these health promoting pieces of your life.

You’ll learn how to listen to your body’s “whispers” before they turn to life-threatening “screams” that can be prevented with proper self-care, and you’ll learn how to trust your inner guidance when making decisions about your health and your life.

How Mind Over Medicine is Changing the Way I Parent

I am really enjoying this book! Lissa Rankin has inspired me to take a new approach to how I handle illness with my children. I’m beginning to talk about self-healing with my boys, empowering them to BELIEVE that they have the self-healing superpowers to fight disease and activate health. Yes, I still give my children medicine when they need it…but inspired by Dr. Rankin, I’m beginning to change how I speak about illness, injuries, and the healing process.

I put my learning into practice two nights ago when my 7 year old woke up (twice) screaming that his foot hurt. In the past, I would dash to the bathroom to give him children’s Tylenol. This time, I gave him a placebo (a Tic Tac), placed a cold compress on his foot, and told him “This is just to help you heal yourself”. After ten minutes of crying, he stopped almost immediately after I gave him a Tic Tac.

Of course I would have gone to the doctor if he woke up not being able to walk…but he woke up happy go lucky with zero pain.

6 Simple Steps To Heal Yourself

In closing, I want to share Lissa’s 6 steps to  activating your body’s self-repair mechanisms…

Step 1: Believe You Can Heal Yourself. Don’t believe that positive thinking can cure the body? Think again!

Step 2: Find The Right Support. Equally essential to positive thinking is the nurturing care of a true healer, someone optimistic who shares your positive belief, includes you in true partnership, respects your intuition, cares for your wellbeing, and ensures you that you won’t be alone on your self-healing journey.

Step Three: Listen To Your Body & Your Intuition. Nobody knows your body better than you, not even a doctor.

Step Four: Diagnose The Root Causes Of Your Illness. What aspects of your life are activating your stress responses? What relaxation response-inducing activities — like meditation, creative expression, laughter, engaging in work you love, massage, yoga, or playing with animals — have you been neglecting?

Step Five: Write The Prescription For Yourself. This is a self-guided action plan intended to make your body ripe for optimal health and full recovery.

Step Six: Surrender Attachment To Outcomes. What if you’ve adopted a positive attitude, found the right healer, tapped into your intuition and your body, diagnosed the root cause of your health condition, written The Prescription for yourself and put it into action – but you’re still sick? This is where the art of surrender comes in. Some patients do everything “right” and spontaneous remission happens. But others are still sick. If you have done everything within your power to make your body ripe for miracles — the rest is out of your hands. So take a deep breath, trust The Universe, surrender attachment to any particular health outcome, and let any health condition you face be an opportunity for spiritual awakening.

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P.S. About Lissa Rankin

Lissa Rankin, M.D. is an integrative medicine physician, author, speaker, artist, and founder of the online health and wellness community OwningPink.com. Discouraged by our broken health-care system, Dr. Rankin set out to discover why some patients experience miraculous cures from seemingly incurable illnesses, while others remain sick even when they receive the best medical care.

Fueled by a passion to determine what really makes people healthy and what really predisposes them to illness, she dug into the medical literature to study how doctors might better care for patients. Her research led her to discover that patients have self-healing powers beyond our wildest imaginings, and science proves it. She is now leading a “Pink Medicine Revolution” to help patients heal themselves, while encouraging the health-care industry to embrace and facilitate, rather than resist, such miracles.

She aims to feminize how health care is received and delivered by encouraging collaboration, reconnecting health care and spirituality, and empowering patients to tap into the mind’s power to heal the body.

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Disclosure: I received this book for free from Hay House Publishing for this review. Opinions are 100% my own.