Meta-Physician on Call for Better Health: Metaphysics and Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit

by Steven E. Hodes M.D.

Overview

Steven E. Hodes, M.D., initially trained in traditional, high-caliber medical programs that led him through graduation at the Albert Einstein Medical School and to a fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital. But many years later, he saw something vital missing in his approach to healthcare. I was trained as a physician, not a healer…taught to view the patient as a machine suffering from some mechanical failure. My purpose was to be the best diagnostician possible, he explains. Then events occurred that opened the eyes of this now veteran physician to deep insights about the mind-body-spirit connection. That awakening moved him to a metaphysical view of health—a view more spiritual than religious, but still firmly grounded in science. Embracing his role as a metaphysician, he also began to see himself as a meta-physician, or doctor transformed (meta) by this new awareness. In this book, Hodes describes his jourbaney to becoming a metaphysician on call. He points out profound, yet simple, observations and beliefs that affect our perception of the nature of reality—metaphysics—which, in turban, can largely affect our well-being in all senses—body, mind, and spirit. We all can and should take responsibility for our own well-being on all levels, he explains. This book is designed to inspire us to ask our own questions, and gather our own evidence to enhance all areas of our lives and well-being, and so find healing and peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313348396
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/30/2007
Series:	Practical and Applied Psychology
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Steven E. Hodes, M.D., is a board certified gastroenterologist with more than 25 years in private practice. His medical degree is from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and he completed a Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He also holds a degree in Religious Studies from Franklin and Marshall College. Dr. Hodes teaches courses at Brookdale Community College and has lectured at the prestigious 92nd Street Y in New York City. In addition to his medical practice, he has devoted himself to speaking and writing about metaphysics and healing, with an eye toward helping people regain their health, strength, and ability to explore life's challenges from a more spiritual perspective. More information is available at his Web site at www.meta-md.com

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Judy Kuriansky
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I:My Personal Jourbaney
1 From Physician to Meta-Physician: My Personal Jourbaney from Physician to Healer
Part II: The Metaphysical Jourbaney
2 Metaphysics—What Does It Mean?
3 Truth about the Metaphysical Jourbaney—Embracing the Power to Choose
4 Solving Life's Mysteries—Why We Search for Knowledge
5 Creating Our Own Reality
6 Anatomy of a Belief
Part III: Science and Mind
7 Healing the Heart–Mind Divide
8 Science and Spirituality: Metaphysics of the Unexplained
9 Are We Ever Out of Our Minds?
10 Are We Hard-Wired for Bliss?
11 Darkness and Light
Part IV: Testing Credibility—How Do You Know What's Real?
12 The Credibility Quotient
Part V: Spiritual View on the Nature of Life: Inspirations from Kabbalah and Buddha
13 Born Again: Reincarnation and Karma
14 Death as a Transition, Not a Tragedy
15 Suffering Is Not Punishment
16 Managing Our Imperfections
17 Spiritually Correct Forgiveness
18 Kavanah: The Intention to Do Good
Part VI: Choosing Healing as a Way of Life
19 Healing—What Does It Really Mean?
20 Healing through Gratitude
21 Healing through Happiness
22 Healing through Sadness
23 Age of Addiction
24 The Placebo Effect: Proof of the Body–Mind Connection?
25 Obesity and How to Avoid It: A Weighty Metaphysical Topic
Part VII: Dr. Steve's Prescriptions for Calling Forth Your Inner Meta-Physician
26 Twenty-seven Ways to Embrace Your Inner Meta-Physician
27 Labyrinth or Maze: Which Path Will You Choose?
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Daniel J. Benor

"It is not often that you will find a physician who has the openness and humility to share his own journeys of discovery, through personal awakenings and decades of experience in helping others to deepen their understandings of why they are here on this earth and what their lives are all about. You will find yourself vastly enriched through this excellent book."

Andrew Nagorski

"In earlier times, doctors were often as concerned with the spirit and the mind as with the body. Steven Hodes is a very modern doctor who has returned to that tradition. He explores so much that modern science and medicine dismisses or ignores: spirituality, religion, every aspect of dying, death, and possible afterlives, the explainable, and the mysterious. Read this fascinating book and follow Hodes on his journey; read it with an open mind and begin your own journey."

Daniel J. Benor

"It is not often that you will find a physician who has the openness and humility to share his own journeys of discovery, through personal awakenings and decades of experience in helping others to deepen their understandings of why they are here on this earth and what their lives are all about. You will find yourself vastly enriched through this excellent book."

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Daniel J. Benor, M.D., ABHM, Editor, International Journal of Healing and Caring

Andrew Nagorski

"In earlier times, doctors were often as concerned with the spirit and the mind as with the body. Steven Hodes is a very modern doctor who has returned to that tradition. He explores so much that modern science and medicine dismisses or ignores: spirituality, religion, every aspect of dying, death, and possible afterlives, the explainable, and the mysterious. Read this fascinating book and follow Hodes on his journey; read it with an open mind and begin your own journey."

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Andrew Nagorski, Newsweek International senior editor, author of The Greatest Battle.