Awakening Your Power of Self-Healing

Virtuoso pianist Arthur Rubenstein developed crippling arthritis throughout his whole body, except for in his hands. Their consistently fluid, effortless, and balanced movement during years of performance kept his hands in wonderful shape, even as the rest of his body failed him. Our book, Awakening Your Power of Self Healing, is designed to teach you to bring the power of healthy movement into every part of your life, and overcome disabilities and diseases on which others will tell you to give up. It contains revolutionary knowledge you need to grow healthier by the day, prevent disease in the future, and greatly improve your current conditions.

Awakening Your Power of Self Healing helps you to develop a deep awareness of your body and to engage in appropriate, pleasant exercise at the same time. We want to help people understand that there is a way to exercise their bodies safely. We want to help you become aware of your body's needs, and respond to them. It is time to give up the idea of “no pain, no gain” - instead, Dr. Meir Schneider and his School for Self-Healing would like you to understand that you have everything to gain, with virtually no pain.

The book is written very specifically to be easy to follow. We include 600 exercises, many of which are unavailable anywhere else in the world, along with 300 hand-drawn illustrations meant to clarify the movements for our readers. Above all, we worked hard to make this book friendly, practical, applicable, and useful.

We wrote this book chronologically, according to the body's needs. We begin with a chapter on breathing, to teach you to breathe slowly, deeply, and smoothly - this is the foundation on which good health is built - and progress from important, universal knowledge to information for specific diseases.

"...remarkable techniques that unlock the body's ability to heal itself." -- Ronald K. Takemoto, MD, Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UC Irvine

"Meir demonstrates our untapped power and potential..." -- John E. Upledger, DO, founder, Upledger Institute

Meir Schneider, PhD, LMT healed himself of congenital blindness and developed an original holistic approach to health. The Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method is a unique combination of therapeutic massage, movement, and natural vision improvement exercises for prevention and rehabilitation of degenerative conditions. A globally respected therapist and educator, Meir is also a bestselling author. His latest book, Vision for Life, was published by North Atlantic Books. He is the founder of the School For Self-Healing in San Francisco.

The purpose of our book is to add a fresh dimension to your already expanding array of
healthcare skills. This is the dimension of kinesthetic awareness–the physical, sensory
awareness of your own body. As your kinesthetic awareness develops, you will be able to feel
more and more of what happens with your body, both internally and externally.

Ask yourself this: How much good can you do in the world around you if you are not well? How
much more good could you do if you had 100% of your resources available to work with?
Obviously, your world will benefit from a happy and healthy you as much as you will yourself.

This book is filled with ways–which we call exercises for want of a better word–to get more in
touch with your physical self, using both your mind (consciousness) and your body (kinesthetic
awareness). Whether your aim is to prevent an illness, heal an existing condition or make good
health into terrific health, you will have the opportunity to learn much about your body. The
process takes time and patience, but it gives back selfe€knowledge and a new enjoyment of your
body.

If you believe that you can improve and that the
path to improvement is simple, this book will change your life and the lives of the people around
you permanently. The philosophy behind it and the simple explanations it contains are the most
powerful tools you can possibly have in order to improve and maintain good health.

You have learned how to move, breathe and see in ways that are not working for you. In this book
you will be guided in ways of breathing, moving, and sensing your body in ways that will move
you from stagnation–which happens to 99% of the population–to vitality and openness.

What is different about this book? It shows you how daye€toe€day work and movement, or lack of
it, affects you so you will be alerted to these effects and you can change the way you function. In
this book we make what has been mysterious very familiar: how your mind and your body can
meet, and how your brain and body tissues can work together. It's no mystery. It's no religion. It's
not mysticism. It is a way for you to connect to yourself and through yourself to universal forces.