Hands of Life :

An Energy Healer Reveals the Secrets of Using Your Body's Own Energy Medicine for Healing, Recovery and Transformation
by Julie Motz

Hardcover - 320 pages (October 1998)
Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd); ISBN: 0553107143

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Synopsis:

Julie Motz takes us on an extraordinary journey into a revolutionary form of healing. Five months after she began treating patients recuperating from open-heart surgery, she became a pioneer, crossing into uncharted territory--the first alternative healer to work on a surgical patient whose dying heart was being replaced with a new one. Inside that operating room, her own experience of healing would be completely transformed and redefined....

This remarkable book chronicles Julie Motz's uncommon mission to bring alternative methods of healing to the country's most prestigious hospitals. Invited by a young heart surgeon, she began working with patients undergoing radical lifesaving procedures. As she sensed the traumas and unresolved emotions that contributed to their suffering, she helped them release fear and anger, to begin healing both body and soul.

This breakthrough form of healing draws on Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine, treating the body and spirit as an interconnected whole. Julie Motz shows how strong emotion affects our bodies, creating energy imbalances that can lead to illness if unaddressed. And as she offers her deep compassion to the people under her care, she shows us how to care for ourselves as well: with patience and love, without judgment. She teaches us the role of the systems of our bodies in processing emotion, and how we can detoxify anger and fear, whether past or present. And she makes a persuasive case for allowing feeling into the sterile world of the O.R.

Hands of Life offers a stunning new view of the synthesis of high-tech medicine and ancient healing wisdom, presenting powerful evidence of the role of the spirit in matters of life and death. It is a book that urges us all to find deeper understanding of our bodies and enter the mysteries of our flesh with curiosity and wonder instead of passivity and fear.

Reviews:

A reader from cleveland hts, oh , April 11, 1999
the book I've been looking for
As an anesthetist with 20 years experience in the successes and shortcomings of western medicine, I found this book to be an immense gift from the universe.

A reader from Cedar Falls, IA , March 22, 1999
I can't think of anyone who would not benefit from reading t
What a joy to read! Insights into the mother/daughter relationships. But, where can we meet this woman? How can we have access to learning more and being taught and anger groups? How do we find others of like interest? This should be a required reading for motherhood 101. Way to go Julie!!!!! Thanks for having the courage to write and taking the time.

Judith Prager, Ph.D. from Los Angeles, CA , November 28, 1998
Spellbinding and Brilliant Insights Into Energy Healing!
As a serious alternative healer, myself, I approach books on the subject with some cynicism, concerned about writers who might take advantage of the public's desire for magical answers. Unlike other authors who only pretend a mastery of such subjects as energy medicine, however, Julie Motz is the real thing! With a stunning blend of candor, brilliance, surprising theory and examples of her technique that are both breath-taking and clearly applicable to our lives, Julie Motz provides important, even life-saving, original answers to healing issues . I wanted to underline the whole book, it was so full of insight and inspiration. Read this and find out what the medical profession has yet to learn: that we are mind/bodies that respond to energy medicine in ultimate, transformative ways.

A reader from Chicago, Il USA , November 23, 1998
A fascinating discovery of the nature of disease
This book is a road map to understanding how from as early as being in the womb, one can better gain insight into the health of their body. Julie Motz lays out her incredible journey from the operating room of heart patients to brain cancer patients to breast cancer patients. Her gift to see into the body and feel the emotions and feelings of the people she is with is very powerful. She will leave you wanting to explore all your unexpressed anger and look deeper into your life to better understand who you really are. This book is a must read for anyone who remotely believes in alternative healings.

A reader from Dayton, OH , November 5, 1998
I found this book to be fascinating!
I like the way the author takes you on her own journey of learning about the wisdom of the body and the role emotions play in heath and healing. She takes wonderful intuitive leaps in mapping the wisdom of body consciousness. If you are interested in healing, subtle energy or in responsible health care, I highly recommend this book.