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Mind Over Medicine

MOM final coverIntroducing Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself  (Hay House May 7, 2013)

Mind-body medicine pioneers and leaders in the New Age movement have been spouting off about how the mind can heal the body for decades. As a skeptical, science-minded physician, I was intrigued, but I had my doubts. What ensued was a deep dive into the medical literature to find out if I could prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the mind can heal the body. Seeking to move the notion of self-healing from the realm of the magical or even metaphysical, I also searched for evidence of a clear physiological mechanism that explains how positive thoughts and emotions might translate into cure for the body.

What I discovered blew my mind, shifted my paradigm about modern health care, and became the groundwork for my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013).  Loads of data proves that the mind can believe itself well. In clinical trials, we call it “the placebo effect.” Patients treated with placebos don’t just feel better. It’s not just “in their heads.” They’ve actually had warts disappear, bronchi dilate, colons become less inflamed, hair growth on the heads of bald men, ulcers heal, and other measurable physiological phenomena.  We also know that the opposite is true, and the mind can think itself sick, which researchers call “the nocebo effect.” When patients are given injections with saline and told it is chemotherapy, they vomit and lose their hair.

How do such things happen physiologically? To find out more, order the book.

Other Books

 We are thrilled to announce that What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend is going into its third printing!

You can order SIGNED COPIES through the PayPal button below ($14.99)

A perfect gift for your BFF’s, moms, sisters, and daughters, What’s Up Down There? has received critical acclaim and wildly positive reviews:

“Lissa Rankin is a sassy, brilliant, articulate, funny, fun, loving genius. She gets inside the body and soul of every woman, speaks straight from the heart, educating each of us about the privilege of being a woman. She makes me feel calm. Proud. Fascinated. And most of all, educated about the magnificent, intricate, breathtakingly beautiful body, woman. Every woman must read this NOW.  This book will put the power to determine your health back in your hands, where it belongs.” –Regena Thomashauer, author of Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts

“Yes, I know What’s Up Down There? is written for women, but I read it cover to cover, with the kind of ghoulish fascination most men have when contemplating the mysteries of the female body. And it delivered, providing answers to the kinds of questions every guy I know has wondered about, but wouldn’t dare ask the women in our lives. Lissa’s approach is so straightforward, so funny, and so reassuring that it made me want to dump my own primary care doc and see her instead.”  - Armin Brott, New York Times bestselling author of The Expectant Father

 

We are jazzed to offer SIGNED COPIES of Encaustic Art, Lissa’s book on the art of painting with wax.

($29.99 + shipping through the PayPal button below.)

Own your creativity and have a blast doing it by learning to create art with encaustic, the ancient process of painting with molten pigmented beeswax.  For years, Lissa Rankin taught encaustic workshops, but her students were always so distracted writing down tips for various techniques that they forgot to paint. The seed of the idea for this book began to sprout when Lissa told her students she would write down everything they needed to know so they could be freed up to create art.  By teaching both beginning and advanced encaustic technique, Lissa hopes to help artists move beyond the challenges of mastering the encaustic medium so that they can focus on what really matters- the joy of creativity and the messages they wish to spread with their art.

About Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide To Creating Fine Art With Wax

By interviewing 60+ artists who work with wax in studio visits across the country, Lissa Rankin has compiled Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art With Wax, a manual of encaustic technique based on how artists are interpreting the use of wax in the fine art world. With step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs of the artists at work, the book will help artists master the medium, while profiling the art of prominent painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers who work with the medium.

Whether you’ve never made art before or you’re a professional artist looking to expand your materials, Encaustic Art will get your creative juices flowing. There’s something irresistible about working with wax. It melts any resistance you might have to exploring your creativity and makes art accessible to everyone. The book includes sections on the basics of encaustic, creating and embellishing smooth surfaces, building textured surfaces, working reductively, sculptural techniques, working large with encaustic, encaustic monotype, and combining encaustic with photography, printmaking, and ceramic techniques.

Yes, Something’s Missing from Page 182

I know. I know. I swear it’s not my fault. The publisher made an error in printing and Jeff Schaller’s beautiful painting got superimposed over a few lines of text, cutting out some of the description of how he uses silkscreening with encaustic. Jeff has forgiven me, so I hope you will too. Once we sell out the first print run, this error will be rectified in the second printing, but until then, count yourself among the lucky. You’ve got a collector’s edition!

Here’s what you missed:

To create Jaclyn, Jeff Schaller silk-screened directly onto the wax surface. When silk-screening directly onto wax, Schaller recommends that you place a coat of wax on the wood panel and then fuse it with the heat gun. To ensure that the surface is perfectly smooth, he fills in any small air holes with wax and then uses a single-edge razor blade to smooth the surface.  He warns that, if it is not smooth, the silk screen will glide over the “divots” and the image will not come out properly. When the smooth wax surface has cooled, he pulls the water-based inks through the screen and onto the wax and allows the silk-screened image to dry. Then he paints a coat of clear medium over the image to encase it, and, finally, he heats it very carefully with a heat gun, taking care not to blow out the silk-screened image.

 
 
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