This workbook is a companion manual to Healing Power: Ten Steps to Pain Management and Spiritual Evolution, Revised, 2010. It is a pain management manual, but much more. It outlines a path of healing and recovery from beginning to mastery. It defines the importance of unconditional love in the healing process. Here you will find the wisdom of the sages, translated into universal methods we can use in healthcare. The model offers a host of techniques and tools designed to help healthcare professionals and consumers transform physical, mental, emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual suffering into peace, strength, and wisdom. It addresses the root causes of our suffering and offers corresponding deep healing solutions. You control depth, speed, and complexity. You can take it as far as you wish, all the way to liberation or enlightenment. Dr. Phil Shapiro
This work is a masterpiece and a must read for anyone wishing to transcend their suffering. It's all here. The reasons we suffer, and more importantly, the way out. This is a tried and true life changing work. Beautifully presented, Dr. Shapiro shares his wisdom, experience, and the tools necessary to liberate ourselves from suffering and live our lives in freedom. Corbett Monica, Founder Dual Diagnosis Anonymous
If we receive our medication, surgery, or natural remedy and are still in pain, there are a variety of psycho social and spiritual methods that can help us manage that pain skillfully. To this end, Dr. Phil Shapiro created Healing Power, a self-help, self-healing model for healthcare professionals, patients, and consumers. Healing Power has fifteen methods, one hundred qualities, wisdom pearls, and a variety of religious traction devices—the best of the best, a highlight reel of sorts—extracted from great spiritual books, teachers, and masters and translated into spiritually-oriented, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and contemplative practices. These are your choices. You can go as far as you wish using this cafeteria of options for deeper healing. Dr. Shapiro's model lights a fire of hope and possibility under traditional medical practice. It allows us to function under the umbrella of a great idea: bringing the wisdom of the sages to health care and the street. It spiritualizes the practice of medicine by infusing it with a story and a soul. It improves healthcare outcomes. Healing Power's contribution to medical practice and mind-body-spirit medicine is unique and powerful. I highly recommend this work. Dr. John Bischof, Psychiatric Medical Director, Central City Concern, Old Town Recovery Center
The thing I really enjoy about this workbook is no matter the page we read, it is about love, manifested in many forms. Kealy Slaughter, Peer Support Specialist
Healing Power: The Workbook
Pain-Method-Quality
By Philip ShapiroAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2016 Philip Shapiro, MD, MPH
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-5049-6836-2Contents
Part 1: Introduction,
Prologue, 3,
1. Skillful Pain Management, 5,
2. Personal Spiritual History, 8,
3. Getting Started, 11,
4. How to Use This Workbook, 25,
5. Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine, 27,
6. Definitions, 34,
7. The Ten Steps, 40,
Part 2: The Universal Healing Wheel,
8. Setting the Stage to Roll the Wheel Seven Steps to Mastery, 45,
9. The Universal Healing Wheel, 50,
10. Pain, 54,
11. Methods, 59,
12. Qualities, 78,
13. Rolling the Universal Healing Wheel, 97,
14. The Universal Healing Wheel With Traction Devices, 116,
15. The Foundation, 128,
Part 3: Methods,
16. Horizontal and Vertical Axis Methods, 135,
17. People, 137,
18. Activities, 146,
19. Belief System, 148,
20. Affirmations, 157,
21. Habits, 166,
22. Progressive Muscle Relaxation, 170,
23. Breathwork, 172,
24. Contemplation, 176,
25. Meditation, 179,
26. Prayer, 189,
27. Mindfulness, 200,
28. Presence of God, 215,
29. Service, 223,
30. Yoga, 227,
31. Transformation of Emotion, 236,
32. A Balanced Healing Program, 244,
Part 4: Qualities,
33. Love, 261,
34. Peace, 269,
35. Humility, 271,
36. Faith, 273,
37. Courage, 275,
38. Forgiveness, 276,
39. Truth, 278,
40. Intuition, 280,
41. Oneness, 281,
42. Healing, 285,
43. Fill Your Brain with Wisdom One Hundred Healing Quality Pearls, 288,
Part 5: Miscellaneous,
44. The House, 315,
45. The Movie, 327,
46. School, 330,
47. The Car, 332,
48. A Universal Healing Method, 333,
49. The Serenity Prayer, 336,
50. Ego, 340,
51. Omniscient Love and Terror at the Abyss, 354,
52. Inspirational Quotes from Groups and Classes, 358,
53. Staging Disease and Recovery, 362,
54. Frequently Asked Questions, 365,
Conclusion, 367,
CHAPTER 1
Skillful Pain Management
• This is a companion workbook to Healing Power: Ten Steps to Pain Management and Spiritual Evolution, Revised (2010). Here you will find a summary of that work with some additional principles and tools. Ideally, one would read Healing Power, Revised first, but this is not a must. These two books can be used separately or together. The goal is the same: skillful pain management, expansion of healing power, and spiritual evolution.
• This is a pain management workbook. Life is painful. Pain is complex, tricky, and difficult to master. We need all the help we can get. In this workbook, we will study the complexities of pain, see how it works, and offer a variety of methods and qualities to help us respond skillfully.
• Here you will find a composite of healing principles extracted from the great wisdom traditions and organized into steps and tools designed to help you turn the table on your pain, so it becomes your ally rather than your enemy. You will learn how to make your pain work for rather than against you. You will learn how to be a more skillful pain manager. You will learn how to make medicine out of your pain.
• Our pain can be physical, mental, emotional, interpersonal, or spiritual — in any combination and sometimes all at once. It can be overwhelming. Everyone gets a turn. No one is immune. We all suffer.
• Painful problems o
