The Healing Power of Illness: Understanding What Your Symptoms Are Telling You Paperback – March 7, 2016

Added to some information I had already had on how emotions cause diseases. Many times while reading this book I stopped and said out loud "Wow! This book is incredible. I am amazed by what I'm learning here! This is so true I recognize people in my life that do or say this ,no wonder they are dealing with what they are ."And then it hit me." Wait ! This is me ! " It was so wonderful to find the information in this book although this is not my first encounter with this type of information. This is quite a complex book, but the authors explain everything very well. I have already developed a passion for this type of revelations. I highly recommend this book!

Wow, such an amazing book. If anyone has read "The Challenge of Fate" before this, then I am sure you noticed how perfectly this book compliments the first. While "Fate" challenged you with groundbreaking theory, this new book actually takes some theory from "Challenge" and spends an entire book, in great detail, explaining how, we must awaken from the world of duality to accomplish something concrete as "health".This book is almost a scientific approach to Zen Buddhism. I am also reading "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha" and these two books seem to match exactly. While zen attempts to deal with the problem of duality in ritualistic fashion, Dethlefsen and Dahlke go into scientific analogies to show the existence of dualism and it's impact upon our lives. Plus, how to move beyond it. Beyond a world of light/dark, male/female, fast/slow, cold/hot, etc. etc. Basically, this book is a practical application of the fundamental concepts of zen buddhism. The more of our nature we deny, the more builds up on other levels that ultimately spill over onto the physical plane and thus "cause" disease.This book is a MUST read for anyone who questions exactly "why" things are, the way they are. It will soon become apparent that the answers are correct, we are simply asking the wrong questions.

Exhaustive, insightful and not easy to stomach!

I have been studying health from every angle and this is packed full of information on understanding our symptoms and illness. A great addition to my toolbox of emotions and illness.

The most important book on the nature of illness I have ever encountered in many years. Its authors advocate looking at illness through the lens of analogy rather than that of scientific materialism. In other words, do we start with the assumption that illness is a failing of a biological system and therefore seek to cure it solely by looking for biological causes? Or do we say that all of physical manifestation is an expression of an underlying holography and therefore choose to interpret each illness as a unique window into our state of being? Modern medicine, for all of its advances, may too often be trying to shoot the messenger rather than to receive the message. Lots to say about this wonderful book, but the authors themselves say it much better than I can so I will opt only to recommend it to anyone willing to entertain a new perspective on wellness and cure.

I could not get enough of the information in this book and look forward to reading more of the authors' books as they are published in the United States. I read a free download of the first part of this book a couple of years ago and have been waiting to read the rest of it. It did not disappoint! The authors explain polarity and duality in a way that allows one to look at patterns of illness from a new a perspective and with hope for true healing, as opposed to simply masking symptoms. If you are honest with yourself while reading this book and seek to experience healing where it begins - at the level of awareness - you can engage in a new resilient relationship with all aspects of your health.

A groundbreaking book, with groundbreaking concepts. Requires a desire to dive deeper in to the human condition than most people will be able to dive. Just be prepared to read a scholarly work, i.e. to focus and read and re-read things to be able to truly absorb them. I am not all the way through the book yet, but I can already tell that it will be immensely useful to me, if I can find a healthcare practitioner that can guide me along on the journey.

This is not a quick read. Take alot of concentration and attention span to read and comprehend the books contents.