Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda
Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda
“If you have an interest in optimum mental health, this book belongs on your shelf!”
—Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression
“A must-read for anyone interested in overcoming depression and healing themselves naturally. A very important book that will elevate you in many ways. Everyone must seek it out.”
—Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., author of Meditation as Medicine and Dead Brain Cells Don’t Lie
Activate the inherent wisdom of your mind-body
Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way shines a new light on the darkness of depression by presenting specific antidepression strategies designed to help you unleash your innate healing potential. The time-tested advice presented in this book is based on the latest theories of modern science and the practical wisdom of Ayurveda, an ancient system of natural medicine. This unique book offers a comprehensive step-by-step program for eradicating the root of depression from the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of your being.
Through detailed questionnaires about your psycho-physiological profile and elemental imbalances, you will identify an archetype that most represents your experience with depression. Then, you will design a tailor-made health program to regain balance in your mind-body.
You will learn to undo depression by:
- Identifying your unique manifestation of depression based on elemental imbalances
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Using yoga, exercise, and breathing techniques that are in sync with your specific physical, mental, and emotional needs
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Using food and meditation as medicine
Whether you are battling a depressive episode or need support coping with the problems of daily living, this book will help you awaken the “physician within” and embark on a pathway to a life of balance and renewal.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Ancient Science in the Modern World
Nancy Liebler and Sandra Moss have written a terrific book. I purchased the book looking for information about Ayurveda and was delighted with my choice. The authors explain the basic tenets of Ayurveda, how this ancient system relates to modern science and how the holistic benefits can enhance wellness. The focus is on applying the principles of Ayurveda to ameliorate the effects of depression but the information and techniques offered would help heighten happiness for anyone. The book is well written, easy to read and often humorous. The chapter on sleep is worth purchasing the book.
5 Stars Michael Webster
Nancy Liebler and Sandra Moss have collaborated to write a prescription for the malaise affecting millions of us in these most trying times. Healing Depression The Mind-Body Way, is a practical guide to creating happiness and warding off the clouds of depression and anxiety. The book provides a useful “how-to” — following some very basic and common sense steps that are based on practical medicine and universal truths and methods that have been developed and vetted over centuries. The mind-body way isn’t gimmicky, mystical nor doctrinal. Rather, it is a step-by-step guide to mental and physical health and well-being, written for the masses. This is a must read for anyone interested in the subject or desiring to overcome the chains of depression.
5 Stars Goes to the roots of Yoga
As a Yoga Instructor I was interested in the authors’ prescriptive Yoga poses for healing depression and I was not disappointed. Their unique approach links ayurveda and yoga as it originated in the ancient texts. Like the entire book, this chapter is well organized, easy to understand and logical. I bought several copies to give to a number of students who have asked about yoga therapy for depression.
5 Stars Highly Recommend
If drugs and talk-therapy have failed you — buy this book. I’m wary of overwhelming programs requiring a complete re-vamping of ones life. Lieber and Moss provide a very practical, realistic, helpful system that one can easily integrated to regain balance. I had a great time assessing my imbalances (and my friends!) with the mind-body questionnaire as well. EXCELLENT read.
5 Stars Make the mind and body one again…
Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way, takes the reader along a trail of knowledge, old and new. The authors approach depression in a holistic way, offering help through ayurveda, meditation and yoga, to create mind-body balance. Goodbye dark clouds!
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