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"You don't need anything but your imagination. Have you ever noticed when you purposely think about something you love, or share a favorite story from your life, you start to feel better? Here's why: Just thinking about your passions evokes positive emotions that generate your own customized antidepressants. Chemicals like norepinephrine, serotonin, dopamine, endorphins, and oxytocin kick in, allowing for mental relaxation, reduced pain, and new psychological growth, all of which are the magnificent self-rewards that arise from just giving yourself the pleasure of visualizing joy." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Suggestions follow in this chapter, but you can use your own imagination and parental intuition to custom-design a method for your own family The "Game" Method for Managing ADD/ADHD One creative method suggested by many ADD/ADHD experts is to create a chart or a board game with spaces that players can advance along toward the finish line. To liven up the spirit of entertainment, you can use the game board of one of your child's favorite games or create your own based on a theme that you know your child will love." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Envisioning, which is to say vibrant imagination, prepares us for optimal levels of performance—whether we're a monk, a pianist, or a dirty old man—and gives us the feelings of competence and capability necessary for Brilliant Health. The Power of Envisioning In each of the stories you just read, envisioning is used to generate positive emotions. It works so well because the brain, as the master planner for the body, begins preparing for virtually any physical state the mind creates." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"I will leave it to your imagination what such a chemical assault means for these vital organs. The Vitamin-D Factor Sunglasses and sunscreen agents are among the most health-endangering products that exist because they block absorption of ultraviolet rays which your body needs to produce vitamin D. Besides hindering the essential exposure of your eyes and skin to the rays of the sun, the use of sunscreens and sunglasses is cancer, see Heal Yourself with Sunlight or Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Please don't say it's my imagination. I often think maybe I give off bad vibrations, and they detect it. I won't say it's your imagination, but I will say that it's something you can change. I'm sure that if you're picking up on this kind of reaction, you're likely mirroring that rejected feeling back to other people, and that exchange alone is going to perpetuate the cycle even more. So let's start at the beginning. Even if your original premise were true—that you give off "bad vibes"—you can change this. " - Tonya Reiman, The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter (Get the book.)

"A beginning of this is imagination. Imagination itself, of course, is a recent extrusion of the animal through some of its more recent exuberant bulges of forebrain and is embedded inextricably in the organic matrix from which it blooms. So, I invite my imagination (and yours) to trace a path back. Beyond the point where imagination is rooted in this physical body (this incredible record of success upon success, 4 billion years of organic symbiosis)." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.)

"For Ferri, "Imagination is the projection of images in our interior, with the desire to transform them into real events." After many years of despair, including multiple psychiatric hospitalizations, Ferri concluded his malaise had resulted, in good part, from his ceasing to use his imagination or imagining only what he disliked. Ferri credits his recovery to rehabilitating his ability both to listen to reality and to imagine what he likes. A Sense of Humor and Spontaneity Voltaire said, "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Her body remained in bed, but the rest of her went to a safe garden that she created in her imagination. Likewise, Barbara's mother flew into rages during which she assaulted Barbara, hitting and kicking her. Her mother's dark moods came on without warning, and when they did, anything that Barbara said or did could result in a physical attack from Mom. Barbara, too, dissociated from her body during the attacks. She can strike me on the outside, but not on the inside, Barbara told herself. Meanwhile, she left her body behind to fend for itself." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"To understand how this is possible, it's useful to understand the special properties of waves, which are best illustrated in a laser optical hologram, the metaphor that so captured Pribram's imagination. In a classic laser hologram, a laser beam is split..One portion is reflected off an object ?a china teacup, say - the other is reflected by several mirrors. They are then reunited and captured on a piece of photographic film. The result on the plate - which represents the interference pattern of these waves - resembles nothing more than a set of squiggles or concentric circles." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, and whatever else piqued his growing imagination. His physical grace grew beautifully, as essential fatty acids, along with his improved dopamine metabolism, helped smooth out his coordination. His muscles also bulked up, as he began to more efficiently process the amino acid creatine, the muscle-building protein that's often low in autistics. In 2004, when Kyle was eight, Eric and Elizabeth took him to the Mayo Clinic, to confirm what they felt they already knew: that Kyle was no longer autistic." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Fear is the most basic response designed to protect us from a threat, but by choosing to focus her attention on imagination and curiosity, she lessened the physical impact of that primal reaction. Through our work with the Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship for medical professionals we've learned that the lack of clearly stated moment-to-moment intentions is often at the root of miscommunications and can even give rise to medically dangerous situations between doctors and patients." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"The links to religious understandings and practices are the second factor that helps explain the strong hold that mind-body medicine has on our cultural imagination. Thus, today's visions of minds in the thrall of suggestion emerged out of older visions of bodies possessed by demons, and this distinctive religious origin gives those visions a different, and more dangerous, kind of resonance than they might otherwise have." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"So that 'gay luxurious imagination' crops up again, but this time clearly marked as a liability, rather than a lesser virtue. Fictional or not, by the second decade of the nineteenth century, the British, French, and American medical presses had succumbed to the forces of curiosity and rising interest, and began to report on acupuncture. For twenty years, studies of acupuncture, and cases of its success (and later of its failure) peppered medical periodicals." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"It is, after all, a picturesque term that stimulates the imagination; it has a rich history; therefore it is the expression that we use in this paper. According to one historian of science, thought experiments are arguments, not experiments, that "posit hypothetical or counterfactual states of affairs" and "invoke particulars irrelevant to the generality of the conclusion."3 In Einstein's famous examples, there is not and cannot be a train traveling at nearly the speed of light, nor can there be an elevator falling at that rate. These thought experiments began with "counterfac-tuality." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "thought experiments are devices of the imagination used to investigate nature." ISSUES OF LOGIC All this is interesting, and certainly exotic. Thinking about the method, however, raises an immediate problem: it seems apparent that thought experiments are not really experiments at all. Experiments are designed to answer questions by actions that produce data; thought experiments produce no data." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "The thought experiment is not real, but no more or less than any work of imagination, or for that matter, any work that is inherently conceptual. We would hope not only for theoretical insight, but also that this thought experiment might, for example, inform the debate on public policy. There is, it is our contention, only one way to find out. Let us conduct this thought experiment—with all theoretical and methodological rigor—and see what happens? APPENDIX C MEDICINE AND MORTALITY An Historical Perspective Good mortality data were not available until the mid-nineteenth century in Europe." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Questions are limited only by one's imagination. What if democratic elections were banned in Country "X" or imposed on Country "Y?" Or strict gun control instituted in the United States? What would happen? Or just as important, what would not happen? Each of these in question is surely difficult. What if all narcotics and opiates were legalized (decriminalized) at this very instant? no legislative process, no getting ready for years, no 147 advance warning for producers and users, let alone law enforcement. What would happen? Just as importantly: what would not happen?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"If you open the imagination to what's possible, then everything is limitless." Image therapy is an amazingly effective adjunct in the healing arsenal for asthma, Shafer told me. For many people, herself included, it's significantly reduced their symptoms and overall need for medication. But she was also quick to point out that image therapy doesn't replace conventional treatment. "When I'm in the middle of not being able to breathe, I'm not interested in exploring the mind-body connection and the psychological components," she says. "All I want is a shot to open up my lungs and save my life." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Imagination, these commissioners knew (following a considerable tradition in the eighteenth century), was the enemy of rational enquiry—a quixotic, irrational, and poorly controlled faculty of the mind. Its fancies, especially ones so powerful they could spread across the population, were a danger to clear thinking because they were not grounded in truth. Scientific methods were thus required, not to understand them, but to unmask them for the unruly, dishonest things they really were." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"We expose the patient, either in reality or in his or her imagination, to face what he is afraid of. If you have fears of AIDS or of blood, you are exposed to blood or taken to the hospital where there might be patients with AIDS. Or you will read articles on the condition. "If it is contamination from dirt the patient is afraid of, we teach the person how to touch objects and not to be afraid of them. Then we prevent the patient from washing their hands; in other words, they must remain unclean for awhile." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"A story selects among a pool of potentially relevant events and sequences them—normally chronologically—in ways that direct the imagination along a particular trajectory ("After Cinderella's own mother died, her father married a wicked woman with three daughters of her own"). 2. A story identifies the relationship among these sequenced events, often but not always by declaring or implying a thread of linear causality running across them ("The prince saw how beautiful Cinderella was, and in that moment he fell in love with her"). 3." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Influencing the imagination by auto-suggestion has become an integral part of many therapies to speed recovery and help relieve the pain and suffering of illnesses. Auto-suggestion can benefit everyone, but is particularly useful for anyone experiencing tension, anxiety, fear, asthma, allergy, psychosomatic illness and addictions to food, alcohol or smoking. It can be used to build your self-esteem, your confidence and your relationships. Just set aside some time night and morning to repeat—aloud or silently—one particular phrase or affirmation." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"But no matter: the dramatic interventions engaged the national imagination for months on end. All told, there has been little incentive for physicians to study alternate ways to manage disease, so the mechanical/procedural approach continues to dominate the profession even though it offers little to the unsuspecting millions about to become the next victims of disease. Modern hospitals offer almost nothing to enhance public health. They are cathedrals of sickness. There are some signs of change." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"In the popular imagination, as we have seen, the role of genes begins and ends there, and we are impotent in the face of the inevitable, predetermined, and unmodifiable actions of the genes. But, as Kandel points out, genes have another function, a transcriptional function, which is the ability of a gene to direct the manufacture of specific proteins in any given cells, the expression of which makes a brain cell a brain cell and a liver cell a liver cell." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "CBT sometimes has a "bad rap" in psychiatry for lacking imagination, for being tied to a script or a manual, for not being sufficiently free or creative. I am struck in talking to Lisa that she does not use a manual. "I just stick to the core principles," she says. "For each patient, I deploy them differently. So, for example, with Martha, we did spend a great deal of time in the early sessions on the formulation of her core belief of being defective, because that was so pronounced and so clearly tied to the expectations of her family." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Inward-looking souls were drawn to the imagination and created intricate inner worlds. Why do the best children's authors—Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis, J. M. Barrie, J. K. Rowling—come from Britain? Why did Shelley write Ozymandias? Because their authors, bored with or having exhausted the extent of their physical surrounds, were compelled to invent their own imaginary frontiers. For outward-looking, physically adventurous types, the lack of a frontier on native soil meant that they had to go looking for one in all corners of the globe." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "How does the flow of blood in parts of the brain correspond to feelings, moods, opinions, emotions, imagination? It remains a daunting task to create theories to "operationalize" what is going on underneath all the pretty pictures. The largest question of all, consciousness (which is, after all, the essence of being human), is completely untraveled territory. Whoever develops a true theory of consciousness will be the next Einstein, the next Freud, the next Copernicus. The state of the art right now is that we can read brains—to some very crude extent-—but we can't even begin to read minds." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Vitamins had brought a kind of glamour to the science of nutrition, and though certain elite segments of the population now began to eat by its expert lights, it really wasn't until late in the twentieth century that nutrients began to push food aside in the popular imagination of what it means to eat. No single event marked the shift from eating food to eating nutrients, although in retrospect a little-noticed political dustup in Washington in 1977 seems to have helped propel American culture down this unfortunate and dimly lighted path." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"He is a relic: a former boxing coach with a thick Russian accent and what seems to be an endless imagination for challenging me. I got into the habit of doing weights plus crunches and balance exercises two times a week, three times when I'm really focused. The other days I do forty minutes on the elliptical trainer, or on the treadmill when I want to add in some intervals. While researching this book, I learned about the magic of HGH and how sprinting might get me where I really wanted to be." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"But they found that the cause of these effects lay not in the physical but in the mental realm; not in Mes-mer's supposed magnetic "fluids" but rather in a faculty of mind they called the "imagination." In stating this conclusion, however, they were not proposing to replace Mesmer's schema with an alternative one (as Mesmer had previously done with Gassner). What they were doing was dismissing those effects as unworthy of explanation altogether." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

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