James L. Oschman

What are the limits to the human body's potential for healing and physical performance? Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance gives an entirely new perspective on this question by describing a high-speed communication system in the human body that senses and responds to the energetic environment. It is the substrate for systemic cooperation. Diseases and injuries compromise the regulatory circuitry that the body employs to maintain a high level of functioning, both for healing or for obtaining optimal performance in any endeavor. Learning how to achieve more as either a therapist or as a performer or as a team involves increasing the cooperative interactions within this network that reaches all parts of the body and affects all systems.… (meer)

There is growing interest world wide in the field of mind-body medicine and the effect which the natural energy forceswithin the body play in the maintenance of normal health and wellbeing. This in turn has led to interest in how these energies or forces may be channelled to assist in healing and restoration to health. This book, written by a well known scientist with a degree in biophysics and a PhD in biology, brings together for the first time evidence from a wide range of disciplines which is beginning to provide an acceptable explanation for the energetic exchanges that take place in all therapies
Energy Medicine provides an exciting and challenging read for anyone who may be interested in or curious about the therapeutic aspects of energy.It provides a stimulus to discussion among both the sceptics and those who are already convinced of the healing potential of body energy.… (meer)