This book is a jargon-free account of a powerful personal story that has resonance for anyone dealing with physical or emotional crisis. It relates the author's conventional life and outlook as a busy BBC journalist and mother. This life was dramatically interrupted when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour while in the process of writing her first book. The reader can identify with the effect of her illness on her and her family. Frustrations with medical system led her to gradually uncover the power of healing. Fascinated with this extraordinary 'parallel world' she shows how she developed her innate healing powers to the point where the MRI scan showed only tiny remnant of the tumour that had once almost destroyed her life. In the process she uses healing to change all aspects of her life and relationships, and to heal others. Anna's experience and the extensive knowledge of different schools of healing that she has acquired since her illness help her to show how everyone can develop their innate power to heal and learn to understand the language of their body. She reinforces her narrative with information that explains clearly and lucidly how healing relates to the scientific discoveries of the last twenty years about how the body functions at a quantum level. The result is a book that is practical and usable as well as a personal and moving account.
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| Preface |
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| Introduction: One-eyed Vision |
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4 Intuition as Inspiration |
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57 | (17) |
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5 Meditation as Medication |
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6 Healing: Coming up to Grass |
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95 | (27) |
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7 More Magic Than Medicine |
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122 | (14) |
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8 Reality, But Not as We Know It |
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136 | (23) |
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159 | (23) |
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182 | (15) |
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11 Speaking Your Body's Language |
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197 | (14) |
| Appendix: What Can You Do for You? |
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| Resources |
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Anna Parkinson is a writer, healer and former BBC producer. Her first book, Nature's Alchemist, Frances Lincoln, 2007, was a historical account of John Parkinson, an ancestor who was a pioneer English herbalist in the 17th Century. She is known for talks about plants as well as healing and she is currently developing a BBC radio series on traditional plant uses. She has a busy healing practice and has appeared on local radio phone-ins to talk about healing.
