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The Encyclopedia of Ailments and Diseases: How to Heal the Conflicted Feelings, Emotions, and Thoughts at the Root of Illness
A comprehensive reference and healing tool to address the emotional and psychological causes of illness
• Uncovers the conflicted conscious or unconscious feelings, thoughts, and emotions at the root of nearly 900 ailments and diseases
• Details a unique Integration and Acceptance Technique for accessing information through the heart and thereby starting the healing process for emotions and feelings
• Provides positive affirmations to effect change for each ailment and disease
What if your body used a secret language to talk to you? What if an ailment or illness was your body’s way to shout for help, to make you understand that you need to change your thoughts, emotions, feelings, and behaviors? Your body wants you to become aware of the stress that you carry, conscious or not, so you can release unmanaged past and present emotions and the physical complaints that accompany them.
Compiling years of research and the results of thousands of cases he encountered in his private practice and during workshops over the past 30 years, Jacques Martel explains how to read and understand the body’s language of disease and imbalance. In this encyclopedia, he shows how body language reveals specific thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are at the source of nearly 900 different ailments and diseases. The author also details his Integration and Acceptance Technique, which enables healing information to bypass the brain and connect directly with the heart. This technique disables the source of the conflict, conscious or not, that could be at the root of an illness, behavior, or condition and improves the chances of true healing.
This comprehensive manual offers a tool to help each of us become, to some extent, our own doctor or therapist, get to know ourselves better, and recover health and well-being physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. For practitioners and therapists, this remarkable reference tool provides invaluable insights and prompts for healing.
• Uncovers the conflicted conscious or unconscious feelings, thoughts, and emotions at the root of nearly 900 ailments and diseases
• Details a unique Integration and Acceptance Technique for accessing information through the heart and thereby starting the healing process for emotions and feelings
• Provides positive affirmations to effect change for each ailment and disease
What if your body used a secret language to talk to you? What if an ailment or illness was your body’s way to shout for help, to make you understand that you need to change your thoughts, emotions, feelings, and behaviors? Your body wants you to become aware of the stress that you carry, conscious or not, so you can release unmanaged past and present emotions and the physical complaints that accompany them.
Compiling years of research and the results of thousands of cases he encountered in his private practice and during workshops over the past 30 years, Jacques Martel explains how to read and understand the body’s language of disease and imbalance. In this encyclopedia, he shows how body language reveals specific thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are at the source of nearly 900 different ailments and diseases. The author also details his Integration and Acceptance Technique, which enables healing information to bypass the brain and connect directly with the heart. This technique disables the source of the conflict, conscious or not, that could be at the root of an illness, behavior, or condition and improves the chances of true healing.
This comprehensive manual offers a tool to help each of us become, to some extent, our own doctor or therapist, get to know ourselves better, and recover health and well-being physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. For practitioners and therapists, this remarkable reference tool provides invaluable insights and prompts for healing.
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608 pages, Paperback
Published December 15, 2020
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November 22, 2020
This is a brilliant reference book. I have a lot of issues, due to autoimmune conditions, and sometimes it is nice to just be able to research yourself, to see more about what is happening and if there is anything you can do to make life a little easier. This book is a great`t guide, with lots of detail and great information.
July 6, 2024
With hypothyroidism your eyes do not bulge!!!! That's hyperthyroidism.
It completely lost me there. The credibility is gone.
It completely lost me there. The credibility is gone.
February 17, 2026
I found this just a little too repetitive. However, a fascinating piece of research into how our emotions affect our physiology.
September 6, 2021
The Encyclopedia of Ailments and Diseases is a dictionary of illnesses and the emotional conflicts (thoughts, feelings and traumas) that give rise to them. It is comprehensive and detailed.
This book is an extremely useful reference work for anyone who already has some understanding of metamedicine and the psychosomatic and psychogenic causes of illness. If you are new to this topic, or deeply skeptical about it, it's unlikely to change your mind: the focus is on the individual conditions, not on convincing the reader about the principles. If you think all this is poppycock, this book is definitely not for you :-)
For readers who are looking for a reference work to help them think about the connections between their medical conditions and the mind, and bring repressed emotions to the surface, it's a clearly-written and helpful tool. It might also be a support to those in therapy.
'Metamedicine' is a branch of mind-body theory particularly focused on the "meaning" of individual illnesses and conditions. To the best of my knowledge, many if not most people working in this particular field are French-speaking (French, Belgian, French Canadian) and many of their works have yet to be translated into English. (There are of course exceptions such as the well-know Louise Hays.) The late great Dr John Sarno also worked in the connected field of psychosomatic illness, but Sarno did not generally connect specific conditions with specific meanings in such a rigorous way as Martel. I have read a number of books on the topic and they all generally make the same or similar connections, but I don't know the origin of the theory. Sarno's work is closely linked to the theories of the great 20th century psychiatrists such as Freud et al.
Martel's book is interesting, even if I personally believe that the connections between emotions and illness are not nearly as cut-and-dried or specific as he and others claim. I find Dr Sarno's theories way, way more convincing and useful. (Moreover, Sarno was a medical doctor, and his theories were based on his practical medical experience, unlike Martel.) Still, the two can be used together as a way to explore repressed emotions and psychosomatic conditions.
I give this book just 3 stars because of my own fairly limited interest in the topic, not because of any real fault with the book itself. It does what it sets out to do satisfactorily. It is also well translated and readable.
My thanks to Netgalley for giving me a free copy of this book. All my reviews are 100% honest and unbiased, regardless of how I acquire the book.
Like this review? Why not check out my book review site: BelEdit Book Reviews?
This book is an extremely useful reference work for anyone who already has some understanding of metamedicine and the psychosomatic and psychogenic causes of illness. If you are new to this topic, or deeply skeptical about it, it's unlikely to change your mind: the focus is on the individual conditions, not on convincing the reader about the principles. If you think all this is poppycock, this book is definitely not for you :-)
For readers who are looking for a reference work to help them think about the connections between their medical conditions and the mind, and bring repressed emotions to the surface, it's a clearly-written and helpful tool. It might also be a support to those in therapy.
'Metamedicine' is a branch of mind-body theory particularly focused on the "meaning" of individual illnesses and conditions. To the best of my knowledge, many if not most people working in this particular field are French-speaking (French, Belgian, French Canadian) and many of their works have yet to be translated into English. (There are of course exceptions such as the well-know Louise Hays.) The late great Dr John Sarno also worked in the connected field of psychosomatic illness, but Sarno did not generally connect specific conditions with specific meanings in such a rigorous way as Martel. I have read a number of books on the topic and they all generally make the same or similar connections, but I don't know the origin of the theory. Sarno's work is closely linked to the theories of the great 20th century psychiatrists such as Freud et al.
Martel's book is interesting, even if I personally believe that the connections between emotions and illness are not nearly as cut-and-dried or specific as he and others claim. I find Dr Sarno's theories way, way more convincing and useful. (Moreover, Sarno was a medical doctor, and his theories were based on his practical medical experience, unlike Martel.) Still, the two can be used together as a way to explore repressed emotions and psychosomatic conditions.
I give this book just 3 stars because of my own fairly limited interest in the topic, not because of any real fault with the book itself. It does what it sets out to do satisfactorily. It is also well translated and readable.
My thanks to Netgalley for giving me a free copy of this book. All my reviews are 100% honest and unbiased, regardless of how I acquire the book.
Like this review? Why not check out my book review site: BelEdit Book Reviews?
December 31, 2020
I am not sure that I believe the explanations of the author for every single disease, but some insights are useful anyway and I can always mix it with "regular medicine".
Non sono sicura di condividere le spiegazioni dell'autore per ogni singola malattia, ma quel che é sicuro per quanto mi riguarda, é che alcuni insight mi sono stati particolarmente utili e posso sempre "mischiarli" con la "medicina regolare".
THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!
Non sono sicura di condividere le spiegazioni dell'autore per ogni singola malattia, ma quel che é sicuro per quanto mi riguarda, é che alcuni insight mi sono stati particolarmente utili e posso sempre "mischiarli" con la "medicina regolare".
THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!
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