Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

July 1, 1987
Borysenko, co-founder and director of the Mind/Body Clinic at New Eng land Deaconess Hospital/Harvard Medical School, describes the clin ic's ten-week program for learning to "mind the body" through a medical synthesis of neurology, immunology, and psychology. She provides step- by-step instructions to the clinic's techniques while suggesting how they can be adapted for individual use. Combining meditation, breath control and stretching exercises, and mindfulness, and drawn from work with patients aged 17 to 93, these techniques help ease the stress of ill nessparticularly illness caused by stressby exploiting the body's nat ural capacity for healing. Readers who master them can achieve an ad mirable balance between inner self and environment.Jodith Janes, Univ. Hospitals of Cleveland

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