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Are there limits to the human bodys potential for healing and physical performance?

The body employs regulatory circuitry to maintain a high level of functioning for healing or obtaining optimal performance. Diseases and injuries compromise the regulatory circuitry.  In this groundbreaking text, Oschman describes a high-speed communication system in the human body that senses and responds to the energetic environment. This communication system is the substrate for systemic cooperation.  Learning how to achieve more as a therapist, performer or team involves increasing the cooperative interactions within the network that reaches all parts of the body and affects all systems.

Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance explores the human body's potential by drawing on an extraordinary range of sources from physiology and biophysics, to examples from the realms of spontaneous healing, cutting-edge athletic and artistic performance, the martial arts, and various contemplative and spiritual practices. Reading like a detective novel, the text presents clues that make no sense by themselves, but reveal a logical pattern when taken together. With new perspectives and theoretical models, the book offers ways to apply these concepts directly, practically and clinically. Applications include treating traumas of all kinds as well as movement disorders, including paralysis. The concepts open up new maps of the unconscious, intuition, and insight--subjects previously considered too difficult or imprecise for scientific exploration.

Offering exciting, illuminating and practical insights, Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance:

§         Provides an understanding of the nature of energy medicine by exploring science and common experience.

§         Explains complex scientific concepts in ways that are both vivid and easy to grasp.

§         Connects abstract theories with practical applications.

§         Addresses technical detail in a manner that allows readers from different backgrounds and with different depths of experience to choose their own level of access.

§         Includes detailed references to cutting-edge research and time-tested studies for the most well rounded perspective on the subject.

Written by a well-known and highly respected author in this complex and emerging field of study, Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance is ideal for anyone interested in hands-on therapeutics, and performance at the cutting edge and beyond.