The Handbook of Self-Healing: Your Personal Program for Better Health and Increased Vitality

by Meir Schneider and Dror Schneider

Book Overview

This easy-to-use book teaches you how to attend to a wide variety of ailments with exercises for prevention and vitality as well as recovery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140193316
• ISBN13: 9780140193312
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

The Movement for Self-Healing

This marvelous handbook with an unprepossessing cover has as its source of power, a significant number of stories and anecdotes based on the author's personal experience as a natural healer. There is no stronger force for changing and altering our lifestyle than "been there, experienced that". Schneider takes us from his early years having been born blind through wonderful tales of wry humor and astute observation of his peers and adults that shows his gifts as an intuitive healer. The book is easy to follow: divided into three parts with 17 chapters. The author vacillated between despair and hope for many years, and the force of his will, along with the inevitable mentor we have all had at times in our lives led him to open up to the world as his vision emerged. As a senior in high school, Schneider began teaching others how to recognize the equilibrium and balance that our bodies cry for as we gradually act all too often against our better angels of healthiness. Living abroad, the author continued to learn and express his own wisdom as he helped others with diseases such as polio, failing vision, back problems, arthritis, even multiple sclerosis and muscular dystrophy. Examining the all-too-human phenomenon of "internal resistance to healing", the author uses case studies, graphic drawings, and repetitive examples to help us gain confidence that we too can alter and adopt the behavior of well-being. For example, Schneider devotes a fair amount of space to the well-known but oft overlooked Bates Method of better vision. But he does not focus on that issue with great technical reliance on medical terminology. Indeed, the value of this fine volume is that the subject matter is dealt with in common sense verbiage: "back problems" are near-universal and the mechanics are often way beyond what most people want to know. Schneider knows his subjects of body movement, natural healing with sleep and time, the use of yoga and its variants, visualization, and support from friends and compassionate healers. Einstein (or Virginia Woolf) would be quite happy with the emphatic clarity of his writing. This book will be of value to those interested in holistic health (and medicine) as well as Philosophy (mind and body issues). His commentary on ageing, breathing, body imagery, and the need to simply "listen" to ourselves may seem simple expressed in a review, but through the two-page Epilogue of his School's Education Director we come to realize that the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method is a healthful approach of great quiet authority. The seven-page Index is an excellent tool for referencing Schneider's well laid-out and thoughtful scheme of how some 30 people came to improve their health and stay healthy. Note: a much-shortened version of this review first appeared in the Nov/Dec issue of New Age Retailer.

Packed with exercises which have had proven results

Author Meir Scheider was born blind but was convinced his condition was not permanent: as teen he began to work on eye exercises to reverse his blindness and became able to see over time. His primer on self-healing thus comes from experience and is packed with exercises which have had proven results for arthritis, eye problems, back pain and more.

Thorough and definitive: you can create your own miracle

Meir Schneider has truly walked the walk. I have been involved in the alternative healing field for over 18 years and this book is all you need to begin your journey of healing yourself. Working with visualization, exercises, breathing, everything about your life and your habits is addressed in this book. If you are seriously ill or someone you love is, go get this book and start working right away. You will get better. This book is empowering, but if you don't want to spend the time and do the work, you won't use it. This is for those who are eager and ready to take charge of their health and their lives.

The Handbook of Self Healing

An essential reference for those who take full responsibility for their health, fitness, and well-being. Detailed discussions cover all the major body systems-skeletal, muscular, nerves, circulatory,etc.- and many debilitating diseases - osteoporosis, diabetes, among others. The suggestions and exercises are thoroughly explained and illustrated. An empowering work. This book would be a wonderful gift for anyone interested in maintaining and improving their health.

inspirational story

Amazing story. This book is a highly recommended read for anyone hoping to cure himself of any disease or condition, be it imperfect sight or anything else. Whatever ails you, you will be convinced that you can overcome it. Meir Schneider views disease as an opportunity for self-growth rather than as an evil enemy to be killed off. Healthy people don't get sick. "Once the body is relaxed, the breathing correct, and all the joints completely flexible, it is difficult for any disease to take hold."His holistic method makes too much sense to disregard. However, our society is not ready to step into an age of holistic health care.