Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance

James L. Oschman (Author)

9780750654005, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback, published 30 September 2003

400 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.68 kg

"Despite its title, the book is not so much about therapeutics and human performance as 'multiple working hypotheses' for understanding this practice. Thus it is designed not so much to convince as to inquire and stimulate creative thought. A such, it is admirable as a piece of experimental writing" David Mayor, European Journal of Oriental Medicine

This book brings into focus the wide variety of emerging information on energy medicine, and explores mechanisms by which mind and body processes influence the body's healing and performance potential. The author draws on information from an extraordinary range of sources - from physiology and biophysics, to examples drawn from the realms of spontaneous healing, cutting edge athletic and artistic performance, the martial arts, and various contemplative and spiritual practices.In this book, the author focuses on the roles of electrons, electromagnetic fields, and related energetic and quantum processes, the properties of space, and consciousness itself. Both readers with no previous knowledge of this subject area and those who have studied it in some detail will find insights here which are exciting, illuminating and will directly help their own therapeutic practice and performance potential.

Prologue, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction
Chapter 1 A brief history of energy medicine, Chapter 2 Energy medicine today, Chapter 3 A place for science, Chapter 4 Prof takes on cancer, Chapter 5 A kitten and a fly, Chapter 6 Sensation and movement at the edge, Chapter 7 Another way of knowing and moving, Chapter 8 Introducing the living matrix, Chapter 9 Properties of the living matrix, Chapter 10 The living matrix and acupuncture, Chapter 11 More clues from acupuncture, Chapter 12 Continuum in natural systems, Chapter 13 A crisis in bioenergetics, Chapter 14 Introducing biological coherence, Chapter 15 Limitations of the neuron doctrine, Chapter 16 Sensation and movement, Chapter 17 Neural communication, Chapter 18 Muscle contraction, Chapter 19 Biological coherence: the Davydov soliton, Chapter 20 Solitons and muscle contraction, Chapter 21 Sensing solitons in soft tissues, Chapter 22 Soft tissue memory, Chapter 23 Soft tissue holography, Chapter 24 A Continuum Pathway for sensation and movement, Chapter 25. Quantum Coherence in the Living Matrix.

Subject Areas: Complementary medicine [MX]