Positive Health: Raja Yoga Meditation for Stress-Free, Peaceful and Healthy Life

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Publisher : Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Delhi
Language : English
Pages : 88 (With B/W Illustrations)
Cover : PAPERBACK
Dimension : 21.5 cm x 14 cm
Weight : 110 gm

Foreword

A quiet revolution is underway in medical science. Only a relatively few years ago, the role of the psyche as a factor in physical disease was almost universally downplayed. Today, however, with the widespread recognition of the importance of the work of Walter Cannon and Hans Selye on the psychic causation of stress and its role in maintaining homeostasis; with the advent and success of holistic medicine as an alternative approach; with the recognition of the value of meditation in preventing disease; as well as with a series of advances in neurophysiology and clinical psychology which go a good way towards explaining the above insights, the recognition of the importance of the mental and spiritual factors in fighting illness has grown into an imperative of medical treatment nearly everywhere in the world.

When Prince Charles of England, in his official capacity as President of the British Medical Association, last year called for a thorough review of treatment and research to bring the "personal factor" into greater relief and understanding, he was merely form-alizing that revolution. In the United States, various events, such as the "miraculous" cures of Norman Cousins and others from serious diseases such as cancer through attitudinal healing methods, has brought the question dramatically into public awareness.

But even revolutions move slowly in the world of medicine, which employs a materialist base of assumptions and feels limited by the difficulty of harnessing subtle psychological data to a system of laboratory testing designed to measure more tangible phenomena.