The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things
  • Published: 15 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9780307209900
  • Imprint: Harmony/Rodale
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things

Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness

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The new book by the author of the bestselling Healing Words: Lewis Thomas meets Andrew Weil.

Every day modern medicine announces the arrival of yet another “wonder drug” or “miracle procedure” to a world increasingly wary of expensive high-tech cures. Drugs, transplants, and surgery don’t work for 90 percent of our aches and pains and, while we are grateful for life-saving developments, we know that most come with risks that we ignore at our peril.

Long hailed as one of the founding fathers of mind-body medicine, Larry Dossey directs our attention to simple sources of healing that have been available for centuries—treasures often hidden in plain sight—from the power of optimism and of tears to speed recovery to the surprising usefulness of dirt and bugs in curing disease and infection to the benefits of doing nothing.

Exploring the medical research that validates these simple remedies, Dossey encourages us to align ourselves with the wisdom of nature and allow true healing to take place. The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things can transform our view of what health is all about, whether our concern is cancer or the common cold.
  • Published: 15 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9780307209900
  • Imprint: Harmony/Rodale
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Larry Dossey

Larry Dossey, M.D., is a former internist and chief of staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital and the former cochair of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health. He is the executive editor of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing and the author of nine other books on the role of consciousness and spirituality in healing, including the New York Times bestseller Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine. Dr. Dossey lives in Santa Fe with his wife, author Barbara Montgomery Dossey.

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Praise for The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things

"Dossey takes readers on a poetic, well-researched journey into the many paradoxes that are inherent in the human condition and how they relate to healing the body, mind and soul." --Publishers Weekly

"An engrossing and thought-provoking book. Dr. Dossey is a meaning-maker par excellence." --Spirituality & Health

"In a lively style that punctuates scientific data with charming anecdotes and personal history, Dossey offers 'medicine' sweetened with just enough sugar to make it palatable and seasoned with some spice for interest." --Booklist

“Larry Dossey’s insights into the ordinary illuminate a path to happiness and help us see ‘the universe in a grain of sand.’” —Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., coauthor of YOU: The Owner’s Manual

“Delightful, human, funny, poignant, and surpassingly wise, Larry Dossey’s essays are a national treasure.” —Joan Borysenko, author of A Woman’s Journey to God