Self-Healing with Energy Medicine

By: Andrew Weil MD, Ann Marie Chiasson MD

Narrated by: Andrew Weil MD

We can help take care of ourselves with diet, exercise, and regular check-ups, but is there more that we can do to optimize our overall health? Dr. Andrew Weil, pioneer of integrative medicine, believes so: “An integrative approach to health means addressing not only our physical body, but our energetic body as well.” Now on Self-Healing with Energy Medicine, this bestselling author teams up with Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson to offer insights and expert guidance about how to clear blockages to healing, enhance your longevity, and increase your vitality.
On Session One, Dr. Weil shares his thoughts on the scientific investigation of energy medicine, plus his personal story about learning to utilize energy modalities for healing. On Session Two, Dr. Chiasson shares guided practices to help restore the body’s natural energy flow and create your own daily energy wellness routine. Self-Healing with Energy Medicine offers a practical portal into the transformative and life-giving forces around us.

listened multiple times

wonderful segments worth repeating. received a great deal of therapy and will continue to use.

A bit too fast

This starts with an intro by Dr. Andrew Weil, which gives the rationale for energetic therapies and medicine. That part was great. But the rest of the book consists of exercises led by Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson. The problem I had with it is that she goes through the directions quickly and then segues into a "workout session" where she coaches you to keep going with music in the background, like a fitness trainer in a cycling class. The directions on how to do the exercises are not at all self-evident, at least they weren't to me, and I had to look them up on youtube to even begin to comprehend what she was saying. If they do another book like this, I suggest that she slows down and spends a little more time in guiding us through the exercises, saying it a couple times in different ways. It's not obvious if you've never done it before!

Works amazingly for me

The experiences really work for me. I use them to help me sleep at night. My heart rate went from 80’s (allergies) to 60’s.

Unhelpful to the extreme

This is what happens when materialist medical scientists try to co-opt traditional medicine. Ann Marie Chiasson talks about an aspect of ancient, traditional, cross-cultural spiritual healing as "energy" that can be prescribed and bottled. She's got the most annoying exercise where she talks over some intrusive music telling you to bang your big toes together. This lecture is supposed to be about self-healing with "energy," which to her is a big chuck of something that makes a clunky sound when it snaps into place inside your physical body. Also, as a near-death survivor of chemotherapy, I would definitely not consult her about cancer treatment.