The Biodynamic Heart
Healing Arts Press (Verlag)
979-8-88850-062-0 (ISBN)
• Explores the author’s contemplative model and techniques of Biodynamic Cardiovascular Therapy as a means to optimize heart function and heal spiritual wounds
• Examines the epidemic of heart disease as a physical manifestation of a worldwide degeneration of empathy and compassion
• Includes contributions from Michelle Doyle, Bill Harvey, Mary Monro, Cathy Shea, Ann Diamond Weinstein, Barry Williams, and Friedrich Wolf
Exploring the nature of trauma and spirituality as it relates to the cardiovascular system, somatic psychologist Michael J. Shea examines the pervasive epidemic of heart disease as a physical manifestation of a worldwide degeneration of empathy and compassion. He presents therapeutic practices to bring our hearts back into greater balance. Sharing his own experience as a young Army officer who survived a terrorist bombing attack and the profound awakening of compassion that followed, the author looks at the interconnection between traumatic experience and metabolic functioning. Examining the metaphysical causes of heart disease, Shea explains that we must empty our hearts of complex and damaging emotions, particularly anger and hatred, and allow ourselves space for empathy, compassion, and the ability to fully grieve loss to awaken to profound love.
Providing techniques to directly address heart trauma and heal spiritual wounds, Shea explores in depth his contemplative system of Biodynamic Cardiovascular Therapy. He shares multiple hands-on tools, including visualizations, subtle perception methods, and manual therapy practices rooted in Eastern and Western traditions. Illuminating how to heal the heart at the spiritual level, the author reveals how to enter a state of harmony with the cosmos and restore love and compassion as a living quality of an embodied heart.
Michael J. Shea, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in somatic psychology from the Union Institute and has taught at the Upledger Institute, the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and the International University for Professional Studies. He is a founding board member of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America. He is the author of several books, including The Biodynamics of the Immune System, and lives in Juno Beach, Florida.
Foreword by Mary Bolingbroke
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Four Intentions
PART 1
Ignition of Life and Death,
Conception and Birth
1 5/11
2 Igniting Compassion: Working with Babies
3 Understanding Sorrow and Death
4 What’s Inside?
BY ANN DIAMOND WEINSTEIN
5 The Boy and the Medicine Are One
BY BARRY WILLIAMS
6 A Compassion-Based Model of Pregnancy
7 Vascular Endothelium and the
Maternal-Fetal Relationship
BY MARY MONRO
8 Birth Transitions
BY MARY MONRO
9 Empty Arms
BY K. MICHELLE DOYLE
PART 2
Mindfulness and Awareness,
Empathy and Compassion
10 Beginnings of Healing PTSD: Diné Medicine
11 Self-Awareness as a Path to Compassion
12 Immeasurable Compassion
13 Mindfulness and Heartfulness
14 Working Heart to Heart, Brain to Brain
15 What Is Health?
16 The Mysticism of the Five Indo-Tibetan Elements
PART 3
Instincts, Metabolism, and Embodiment
17 Embodied Evolution
18 The Metabolic Functions of Human Instincts
19 PTSD: An Evolutionary View
20 Interoceptive Awareness of the Gut and Pelvis
WITH CATHY SHEA
21 Ignition, Midline, and Spiritual Aptitude
22 The Embodiment of Primary Respiration
and the Five Elements
PART 4
A Ministry of Laying On of Hands
23 Perception and Palpation in
Biodynamic Cardiovascular Therapy
24 Basic Biodynamic Cardiovascular Therapy
25 Intermediate Biodynamic Cardiovascular
Therapy Skills
26 Biodynamic Cardiovascular Therapy during Pregnancy
BY K. MICHELLE DOYLE
27 The Breath of Life and Fire in Biodynamic Practice
28 The Five Fulcrums of the Water-Earth Elements
29 Biodynamic and Trauma-Informed Care for Concussions
30 Reclaiming the Mystical Origins of Biodynamics:
Divinity Serves Divinity
BY BILL HARVEY
31 Igniting the Spiritual Heart
Postscript
Bibliography
Resources
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Mary Bolingbroke |
| Zusatzinfo | Includes 24-page color insert and 444 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 1467 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-88850-062-0 / 9798888500620 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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