Obvious Healing with Larry Dossey, M.D.

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Every day modern medicine announces the arrival of yet another "wonder drug" or "miracle procedure" to a world increasingly wary of expensive high-tech cures. Drugs, transplants, and surgery don't work for 90 percent of our aches and pains. Dr. Larry Dossey, long hailed as one of the founding fathers of mind-body medicine, directs our attention to simple sources of healing that have been available for centuries, from the power of optimism, the surprising usefulness of dirt and bugs, and even to the benefits of doing nothing. "The bottom line: you can do all the physical stuff that we hear so much about, but if you neglect the extraordinary healing power ofr ordinary things you are fighting with one hand tied behind your back." Dr. Dossey reminds us that what we happen to think about our health is one of the best predictors of longevity. (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Larry Dossey, M.D. is the executive editor of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, and served as co-chair of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions of the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine.

He is the author of numerous articles and books, including:

• Prayer Is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer (HarperOne 1997)
• The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives (Dutton 2009)
• The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice (co-author Thich Nhat Hanh) (Parallax Press 2006)
• The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness (Harmony 2007)
• One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters (Hay House 2013)

To learn more about the work of Larry Dossey go to www.DosseyDossey.com.

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• How can you align with nature to allow true healing to take place?
• When is reading a book or doing cross word puzzles considered a psychological risk?
• Why are you looking for miracles in the wrong places?
• How inviting novel situations into our lives contributes to longevity?
• What is the hygiene hypothesis?
• Why is dirt good for you?
• How and why are maggots and leeches making a comeback?