Below are some books I have recommended to patients over the years. If you are looking in this section, chances are one book will stand out to you. That's the one to get.
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Why Do We
Get Sick? Why Do We Get Better? |
| Craniosacral
Therapy for Babies and Small Children
by Etienne and Neeto Peirsman The authors approach babies as conscious beings who endure enormous stress during the birth process. They show how cranio sacral therapy can help restore the correct alignments in babies' bodies, freeing them to grow and attain their maximum potential without hindrance. The book focuses on what a trained cranio sacral therapist can do to remove the blockages that often arise during birth. Based on the authors’ extensive experience, this guide can also be used by parents or caregivers interested in knowing what babies need in order to be whole and healthy, and how to prevent problems — including hyperactivity and ADD — that could become serious and require medication later in life. |
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| Touchstone
for Healing by John Upledger. John Upledger is one of the pioneers of cranio sacral therapy. He was the one who came up with the name as he helped the therapy make the transition from treating bones to deeper trauma in membranes. The Upledger Institute have this to say about it. 'This book expands on concepts originally presented in "Your Inner Physician and You" to offer new insights into the promise of CranioSacral Therapy. The new book is packed with fresh information, repeating ideas from the first text only when it helps clarify the historical context within which the concepts were developed.' I have read "Your Inner Physician and You". It is a good, if overly dramatic description of cranio sacral therapy. I don't like the way he gives very little credit to the pioneers in this field who preceded him. Having said that it is the best book about cranio sacral therapy written for the lay person. |
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Love Medicine
and Miracles by Bernie S Siegel M.D.
In Peace, Love and Healing, Bernie Siegel takes us to the next step in his exploration of the unity between mind and body and the way to self-healing. An exceptional challenge to use the bodymind to our advantage from the author of Love, Medicine & Miracles. |
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| Spontaneous
Healing by Dr Andrew Weil. This book charts Dr Andrew Weil's journey to discover why people spontaneously heal. It is a good all round book with lots of useful tips. It mentions cranio sacral therapy quite favourably too. |
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| A Child is
Born by Lennart Nilsson. This book is full of fascinating images of conception, gestation. It is a nice book for parents expecting a child as it goes through the nuts and bolts of what is happening in the mothers body at each stage of pregnancy. |
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| Passionate
Marriage by David Morris Schnarch. Excellent book from a working relationship therapist. Lots of very useful perspectives in this book. Ultimately the focus is to empower people to become stronger as individuals first. |
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| If you have never heard
of Taoism then these two books kind of go together.
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff is and excellent introduction to the ideas of Taoism as exemplified by an unknowing Taoist hero, Winnie the Pooh. Using stories from the Winnie the pooh books, the author demonstrates the practical application of taoist philosophy at its most powerful. Explaining difficult concepts like, 'doing without doing', 'having no brain' and the 'uncarved block'. It makes you want to read the Tao Te Ching, which is one of the main, if not THE main book of Taoist philosophy. I was lucky enough to find Ray Grigg's translation, 'The Tao of Change' at around the same time as I was reading the Tao of Pooh. The Tao Te Ching seems to be a difficult book to translate. I have picked up lots of different translations in book shops over the years but none have spoken to me as much as the Tao of Change. If I could only have one book on a desert island it would be it. Timeless wisdom that just goes deeper with each reading. |
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| Illusions
by Richard Bach Richard Bach's first book following 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' is a mystical adventure story about two barnstorming pilots who meet in a field in midwest America. Illusions is a companion story. 'What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it?... What if a Siddhartha or Jesus came to our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them? And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me?' Donald Shimoda is one of the fictional characters in Illusions. He is a messiah who leaves his job of being a messiah (and also of being a mechanic at a garage) after deciding that people value the showbiz-like performance of miracles and want to be entertained by those miracles more than understanding the message behind them. He meets "Richard", a fellow barn-storming pilot and begins to pass on his knowledge to him. The novel features quotes from "Handbook Of A Messiah", owned by Shimoda, which Richard later takes as his own. The most unusual aspect of this handbook is that it has no page numbers. The reason for this, as Shimoda explains to Richard, is that the book will open to the page on which the reader may find guidance or the answers to doubts and questions in his mind. |
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| Money is My
Friend by Phil Laut. This is a very practical book with lots of very useful tips about money management and attracting money. |
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| The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist is a bestseller that was first published in Brazil in 1988 and is the most famous work of author Paulo Coelho. It is a symbolic story that urges its readers to follow their dreams. Originally written in Portuguese, it has, as of 2004, been translated into fifty-six languages, and has sold more than 20 million copies in more than 150 countries, making it one of the best selling books of all time. In China & Australia it has gained particular success. The Herald Sun listed it as one of the five most commonly stolen books from Melbourne's book shops. In the foreword, Coelho explains that this is a symbolic version of his experience described in The Pilgrimage. |
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| The Boy
Who Saw True by Cyril Scott. |
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| The Power of
Silence by Carlos Castaneda. This book is quite original. It is the story Carlos Castaneda's apprenticeship with a Mexican shaman called don Juan . Castaneda's books contain practical transformational exercises. For example, to achieve mastery of awareness and intent, don Juan recommended that Castaneda try the simple exercise of looking at his hands while he was dreaming. These practices are devised to maximize the warrior/traveler's personal power, or experience. The condition for maintaining personal power is known as "impeccability". Sufficient personal power leads to the mastery of intent, chiefly the controlled movement of what is known as the assemblage point, which is the center of a bundle of energy emanations emerging from the body. Ultimately, most adults can only move or shift their assemblage point in dreams, after a trauma, by way of drug use, love, through inner silence, or as is preferred, through Intent. The most straightforward or common form of movement of the assemblage point is achieved through dreaming. |
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| The Krishnamurti
Reader This is a collection of conversations
and talks given by J. Krishnamurti who died in
1986 aged 90. |
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