Profound Healing: The Power of Acceptance on the Path to Wellness
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0892810971 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
More than a biography, Canfield's story contains exercises, dreams, visualizations, and experiences--from encounters with the modern mystic Peace Pilgrim to her own acceptance of cancer--that assisted her healing process. Relevant to anyone seeking personal growth and life wisdom, Profound Healing is not merely about dying or living. Profound Healing is Canfield's down-to-earth account of her journey as she inadvertently experiences a modern-day miracle, and her subsequent reflections on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing. A woman faced with advanced cancer shares the story of how preparing to die led her to experience a profound healing on all levels--physical, emotional, and spiritual.• Explores the practical and spiritual aspects of confronting a life challenge as a springboard for spiritual growth. In the process, she cured herself. • Includes accounts of dreams, exercises, and visualizations that inspire profound healing.• Outlines 12 self-help practices of wellness--emotional clearing, meditations, and lifestyle changes--through the living example of a cancer survivor.• By the co-compiler of the spiritual classic Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words.At the age of 41 Cheryl Canfield was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer. Going against warnings from doctors, she rejected proposed surgeries that would involve removing her uterus, cervix, lymph nodes, and surrounding nerves. I
There is profound wisdom here.” (DR. 2) . "This book is an absolute pleasure to read-rich in wisdom and expression." (Caroline Myss, author of Sacred Contracts)"A sensitive, clear description of guidelines for dealing with a catastrophic illness from someone who has been there that can help the reader cross the bridge of forgiveness and spiritual transformation." (Caroline Myss, author of Sacred Contracts)"The book is an instructive source of hope." (Research News & Opportunity, July 2003)"A sensitive, clear description of guidelines for dealing with a catastrophic illness from someone who has been there that can help the reader cross the bridge of forgiveness and spiritual transformation." (Gerald G. WAYNE DYER, author of 10 Secrets for Success a
She is the editor of Peace Pilgrim's Wisdom and co-compiler of Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words. . She lives in northern California. Cheryl Canfield is a wellness counselor who lectures nationally on topics of profound healing and steps toward inner peace
well worth reading walking This book is profound. I bought it because I had read of Peace Pilgram and gotten a book that Cheryl Canfield had done of this incredible woman. Thus I found this book indirectly. Hesitated to get it.Am so pleased I did. Full of messages. It is like an onion. What touches me may not be what touches you, but I am sure that you will be touched. Well written. I am savoring itreading it slowly (that is right I have not f. "inspiring journey of a wise and gentle soul" according to Ellen Etc.. The last time I used a highlighter on a book, it was around 1988, I was writing a college paper on Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse," and I needed to mark recurring themes. In reading "Profound Healing" 15 years later, I finally reached for a highlighter again, because I knew that a) I would be keeping this book for a long time, and b) after I finished gobbling up the "plot," I would want to return to important pa. Wise words on living well Kirsten Cameron Ms. Canfield's book begins with the words: "At the age of 41 I was diagnosed with advanced cancer and told I might not live long enough to see the child in my daughter's womb". This book was originally written as a testament on how to `die well', but turned out very differently. Make no mistake, this book is not maudlin or focused on death, nor is it a celebration of miracle cures. This book is a powerful and beautif