| Profound Healing: The Power of Acceptance on the Path to Wellness Original Edition Contributor(s): Canfield, Cheryl (Author), Pearce, Joseph Chilton (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0892810971 ISBN-13: 9780892810970 Publisher: Healing Arts Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2003 Annotation: 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. Instead, she decided to accept death and focused her energy on attempting to die well. In the process, she cured herself. 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. Her story is intertwined with the exercises, dreams, visualizations, and experiences that assisted her healing process?from her encounters with the modern mystic Peace Pilgrim to her own acceptance of cancer. Canfield summarizes her healing techniques?emotional clearing, meditations, and lifestyle changes?into twelve self-help practices of wellness so others may use her hard-earned insights as a source of hope, inspiration, and practical advice. Relevant to anyone seeking personal growth and life wisdom, Profound Healing is not merely about dying or living; it is about discovering one's life and living it fully. CHERYL CANFIELD is a wellness counselor who lectures nationally on topics of profound healing and steps toward inner peace. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Cancer - Body, Mind & Spirit | Healing - Prayer & Spiritual |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2002154849 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.16" W x 8.98" (0.90 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - New Age |
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| Publisher Description: 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. - 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. Instead, she decided to accept death and focused her energy on attempting to die well. In the process, she cured herself. 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. 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. Others can use her hard-earned insights as a source of hope, inspiration, and practical advice. Relevant to anyone seeking personal growth and life wisdom, Profound Healing is not merely about dying or living. It is about discovering one's life and living it fully while here. |
Contributor Bio(s): Canfield, Cheryl: - Cheryl Canfield is a wellness counselor who lectures nationally on topics of profound healing and steps toward inner peace. She is the editor of Peace Pilgrim's Wisdom, co-compiler of Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words, and author of Profound Healing: The Power of Acceptance on the Path to Wellness. She lives in northern California.Pearce, Joseph Chilton: - Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926-2016) is the author of The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of the Spirit, The Biology of Transcendence, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and Evolution's End. For more than 35 years, he lectured and led workshops teaching about the changing needs of children and the development of human society. He lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. |