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Talk to God and Fix Your Health: The Real Reasons Why We Get Sick, and How to Stay Healthy
This book is the 'go to' God-based holistic health manual for anyone who wants to learn how optimal health depends on body, mind and soul working together. 'Talk to God and Fix Your Health' is holistic medicine at its best, combining cutting edge alternative medicine ideas with the latest scientifically-proven advances in spiritual healing and energy medicine techniques. The result is a universally spiritual book that's jam-packed with easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement practical ideas for how readers can boost their emotional health and energetically heal themselves at every level of body, mind and soul. 'Talk to God and Fix Your Health - The Real Reasons Why We Get Sick and How to Stay Healthy: tells readers: - The three main reasons why they're really getting sick - How to identify and defuse messy emotional issues before they turn into physical illnesses - Easy ways to fix their health at the spiritual, emotional and physical levels. Readers will learn: The 8 secrets of getting God more involved in their healthcare; The 3 foundations of good emotional health; What energy meridians are connect to which emotions; and The 7 types of negative people, and how they could be affecting their physical and emotional health.
They'll also discover what specific emotions could be causing their physical illnesses, and how to 'unblock' their trapped emotions using a variety of simple, easy-to-apply energy psychology and energy healing techniques. Best of all, the stuff in the book actually works, and can lead to dramatic, fast and permanent improvements in readers' health.
They'll also discover what specific emotions could be causing their physical illnesses, and how to 'unblock' their trapped emotions using a variety of simple, easy-to-apply energy psychology and energy healing techniques. Best of all, the stuff in the book actually works, and can lead to dramatic, fast and permanent improvements in readers' health.
280 pages, Paperback
Published January 31, 2016
About the author
Rivka Levy
18 books66 followersAfter 20 years’ experience as a journalist, ghostwriter and PR person, I took a few years’ off to learn about alternative health and to found the Jewish Emotional Health Institute (JEMI), that promotes God-based holistic health techniques.
Until a few of years’ ago, I thought I was pretty much done with writing – but man plans and God laughs. Since then, I've published a number of books, including:
HOLISTIC HEALTH TITLES:
*The Happy Workshop
*Talk to God and Fix Your Health: The Real Reasons Why We Get Sick and How To Stay Healthy
*49 Days: An Interactive Journal of Self-Development
**NEW BOOK**
*People Smarts: The System - Understand yourself, understand others, and crush your stress
JEWISH INTEREST TITLES:
*Unlocking the Secret of the Erev Rav
*One in a Generation, Volumes I & II, the biography of Rabbi Eliezer Berland
*The Secret Diary of a Jewish Housewife I - Move to the Golden City
**NEW BOOK**
*Questions for God - The Secret Diary of a Jewish Housewife II
I blog at: www.rivkalevy.com, so come say hello!
Until a few of years’ ago, I thought I was pretty much done with writing – but man plans and God laughs. Since then, I've published a number of books, including:
HOLISTIC HEALTH TITLES:
*The Happy Workshop
*Talk to God and Fix Your Health: The Real Reasons Why We Get Sick and How To Stay Healthy
*49 Days: An Interactive Journal of Self-Development
**NEW BOOK**
*People Smarts: The System - Understand yourself, understand others, and crush your stress
JEWISH INTEREST TITLES:
*Unlocking the Secret of the Erev Rav
*One in a Generation, Volumes I & II, the biography of Rabbi Eliezer Berland
*The Secret Diary of a Jewish Housewife I - Move to the Golden City
**NEW BOOK**
*Questions for God - The Secret Diary of a Jewish Housewife II
I blog at: www.rivkalevy.com, so come say hello!
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March 15, 2016
The guide to actually BEING your best, and not just “feeling” your best—including essential information that you can’t necessarily get anywhere else.
(Full disclosure: I received this book as a free ARC in exchange for an honest review. And yes, I knew I would probably like the book and leave a positive review because I was already familiar with the author’s work from her blog. But if I’d have suspected that my honest feelings about the book would end up rating only one star, I would have just refused the free copy.)
So here it goes:
I was never into Chinese medicine or acupressure or energy meridians before I started reading Rivka Levy’s material. I preferred herbs and homeopathy, which I basically took like how you take regular medicine: a few drops of echinacea and then hope for the best!
Furthermore, I saw the whole holistic field as a way to great physical health and good feelings, but not deeper than that.
(Think: “shiny happy people holding hands.”)
The holistic health field also always struck me as needing an enormous amount of control over one's life in order to maintain an acceptable level of physical and mental health, i.e. don’t have too many children (or maybe no children at all), make enough money (whatever that means), live in only a stress-free environment, work at only a stress-free job, be able to afford exotic organic veggies and expensive juicers, etc.—but that level of control is not always possible. You can’t always just quit your job or avoid difficult people or live in a stress-free neighborhood or conduct a conducive type of lifestyle or avoid living in the vicinity of, for example, people who think that ISIS is a brilliant idea. Maybe eventually you can, but not right away and not always.
What I Love About This Book
I’ve had amazing results in following this book.
First of all, it's clear, well-organized, and a pleasure to read.
It teaches you how to deal with your physical or mental health in whatever situation you’re in now. You just need your fingers for the acupressure and your voice (or at least your mind) for the rest.
Using the acupressure while talking to God has yielded life-changing insights that is transforming who I am at the core level.
Using the acupressure points to either “sedate” or strengthen various meridians released blockages that I hadn’t even been aware of. We all have blind spots. And if you never know about your blind spot, you can never really rectify it.
For example, we all know people who consider themselves sensitive and vulnerable, but who are actually obviously narcissistic and manipulative. They are in denial and will never learn to be compassionate and honest as long as they remain oblivious to their blind spots.
So this book helps you get out of denial and see your blind spots on the way to become that wonderful person whom you have always had the potential to be.
At the same time, this book also gives you simple and quick techniques to handle those times when you just can’t get it together to do the deep, hard work.
A Few Real-Life Examples
—The only way my baby would go to sleep was if we would put him in his stroller, then run around the house pushing the stroller for anywhere from two minutes to twenty minutes. This included nap times, too. I’m not joking. But after sedating his Triple Warmer meridian, he is usually able to go to sleep after being laid down in his crib with no rocking.
—My baby had a terrible time teething and I was giving him baby ibuprofen around the clock. When I read here that toothaches were connected to the Large Intestine meridian, I sedated that, and he was much happier. It didn’t eliminate the teething pain completely, but he no longer needed pain relief during the day, just at night (and not even every night). I researched acupressure points for teething in other sources, but they didn’t work. Only the Large Intestine sedation points in this book worked for teething.
—One day, a lot of stressful things were happening and I was feeling overwhelmed and confused and numb. So I “flushed” out most of my meridians (by tracing them backwards—but NOT the Heart meridian!) and then I traced all my meridians three times. Then I suddenly got up and got myself and my kids to do an important chore I’d been putting off for a year—and we did it without stress and teeth-gritting.
—Through the acupressure and meridian-tracing, I saw calf tension, large gum sores, ingrown toenail pain, and lower back pain disappear almost immediately.
It doesn’t always work so fast, but it can.
Personal Notes
1) Some people pick up the meridian-tracing really fast and some don’t. I’m among those who don’t. Yet once you learn it, it takes literally 45 seconds to trace all the meridians. At first, I needed to use the book’s diagrams AND the written instructions AND a video demo I found online to figure it all out. Just using the video or just the diagrams or just the instructions wasn’t clear enough for me. And it took me a long time to remember which tracing went with which meridian. But some people (like my kids) pick it up after one or two tries. But even though it was complicated for me at first, I felt the results were very worth it.
(But most people seem to find it very easy and simple to get the hang of.)
2) Usually, I feel better when tracing the meridians, but the first time I did it, I developed a stiff neck. (Because sometimes things get worse before they get better.) When that happens, you just look in the book which meridian a stiff neck is associated with (it's the Stomach meridian, BTW) and then sedate it using the acupressure points.
So I would say if you’re doing this for the first time, make sure you set aside a good half-hour just in case you need to deal with any emotional or physical issues that come up.
3) When you achieve pain relief through sedating or strengthening a meridian, or you receive emotional relief because the acupressure suddenly opens you up to an amazing insight into yourself or you feel high, it’s important to repeat that same acupressure the next day even though you already feel better because the issue may not be resolved as much as you thought and can come back to whomp you. So if the problem was major, keep up with the acupressure once a day even after you get relief.
4) Personally, I get impatient just sitting there and holding the acupressure points even though it is only for 1-3 minutes at a time. (The book also provides techniques that take only a few seconds.) So I found it helpful to either talk to God, make a mental list of things I’m grateful for, sing, or listen to music when I hold the points.
*********************************************
There is so much more to say. All in all, it is one of the most powerful, most life-transforming books I have ever read. The results are very worth the minor learning curve (if you’re like me and you’re impatient and don’t pick this stuff up quickly).
If you want to go beyond just “feeling” good and actually discover and fulfill the potential you were given and truly be the best you personally can be, then I really think this book can help you achieve that.
(Full disclosure: I received this book as a free ARC in exchange for an honest review. And yes, I knew I would probably like the book and leave a positive review because I was already familiar with the author’s work from her blog. But if I’d have suspected that my honest feelings about the book would end up rating only one star, I would have just refused the free copy.)
So here it goes:
I was never into Chinese medicine or acupressure or energy meridians before I started reading Rivka Levy’s material. I preferred herbs and homeopathy, which I basically took like how you take regular medicine: a few drops of echinacea and then hope for the best!
Furthermore, I saw the whole holistic field as a way to great physical health and good feelings, but not deeper than that.
(Think: “shiny happy people holding hands.”)
The holistic health field also always struck me as needing an enormous amount of control over one's life in order to maintain an acceptable level of physical and mental health, i.e. don’t have too many children (or maybe no children at all), make enough money (whatever that means), live in only a stress-free environment, work at only a stress-free job, be able to afford exotic organic veggies and expensive juicers, etc.—but that level of control is not always possible. You can’t always just quit your job or avoid difficult people or live in a stress-free neighborhood or conduct a conducive type of lifestyle or avoid living in the vicinity of, for example, people who think that ISIS is a brilliant idea. Maybe eventually you can, but not right away and not always.
What I Love About This Book
I’ve had amazing results in following this book.
First of all, it's clear, well-organized, and a pleasure to read.
It teaches you how to deal with your physical or mental health in whatever situation you’re in now. You just need your fingers for the acupressure and your voice (or at least your mind) for the rest.
Using the acupressure while talking to God has yielded life-changing insights that is transforming who I am at the core level.
Using the acupressure points to either “sedate” or strengthen various meridians released blockages that I hadn’t even been aware of. We all have blind spots. And if you never know about your blind spot, you can never really rectify it.
For example, we all know people who consider themselves sensitive and vulnerable, but who are actually obviously narcissistic and manipulative. They are in denial and will never learn to be compassionate and honest as long as they remain oblivious to their blind spots.
So this book helps you get out of denial and see your blind spots on the way to become that wonderful person whom you have always had the potential to be.
At the same time, this book also gives you simple and quick techniques to handle those times when you just can’t get it together to do the deep, hard work.
A Few Real-Life Examples
—The only way my baby would go to sleep was if we would put him in his stroller, then run around the house pushing the stroller for anywhere from two minutes to twenty minutes. This included nap times, too. I’m not joking. But after sedating his Triple Warmer meridian, he is usually able to go to sleep after being laid down in his crib with no rocking.
—My baby had a terrible time teething and I was giving him baby ibuprofen around the clock. When I read here that toothaches were connected to the Large Intestine meridian, I sedated that, and he was much happier. It didn’t eliminate the teething pain completely, but he no longer needed pain relief during the day, just at night (and not even every night). I researched acupressure points for teething in other sources, but they didn’t work. Only the Large Intestine sedation points in this book worked for teething.
—One day, a lot of stressful things were happening and I was feeling overwhelmed and confused and numb. So I “flushed” out most of my meridians (by tracing them backwards—but NOT the Heart meridian!) and then I traced all my meridians three times. Then I suddenly got up and got myself and my kids to do an important chore I’d been putting off for a year—and we did it without stress and teeth-gritting.
—Through the acupressure and meridian-tracing, I saw calf tension, large gum sores, ingrown toenail pain, and lower back pain disappear almost immediately.
It doesn’t always work so fast, but it can.
Personal Notes
1) Some people pick up the meridian-tracing really fast and some don’t. I’m among those who don’t. Yet once you learn it, it takes literally 45 seconds to trace all the meridians. At first, I needed to use the book’s diagrams AND the written instructions AND a video demo I found online to figure it all out. Just using the video or just the diagrams or just the instructions wasn’t clear enough for me. And it took me a long time to remember which tracing went with which meridian. But some people (like my kids) pick it up after one or two tries. But even though it was complicated for me at first, I felt the results were very worth it.
(But most people seem to find it very easy and simple to get the hang of.)
2) Usually, I feel better when tracing the meridians, but the first time I did it, I developed a stiff neck. (Because sometimes things get worse before they get better.) When that happens, you just look in the book which meridian a stiff neck is associated with (it's the Stomach meridian, BTW) and then sedate it using the acupressure points.
So I would say if you’re doing this for the first time, make sure you set aside a good half-hour just in case you need to deal with any emotional or physical issues that come up.
3) When you achieve pain relief through sedating or strengthening a meridian, or you receive emotional relief because the acupressure suddenly opens you up to an amazing insight into yourself or you feel high, it’s important to repeat that same acupressure the next day even though you already feel better because the issue may not be resolved as much as you thought and can come back to whomp you. So if the problem was major, keep up with the acupressure once a day even after you get relief.
4) Personally, I get impatient just sitting there and holding the acupressure points even though it is only for 1-3 minutes at a time. (The book also provides techniques that take only a few seconds.) So I found it helpful to either talk to God, make a mental list of things I’m grateful for, sing, or listen to music when I hold the points.
*********************************************
There is so much more to say. All in all, it is one of the most powerful, most life-transforming books I have ever read. The results are very worth the minor learning curve (if you’re like me and you’re impatient and don’t pick this stuff up quickly).
If you want to go beyond just “feeling” good and actually discover and fulfill the potential you were given and truly be the best you personally can be, then I really think this book can help you achieve that.
April 30, 2016
FTC Disclosure: I received this book free from Goodreads hoping I would review it.
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