Product Description

When Andrew Weil speaks – America listens. Now Dr. Weil’s most important original audio titles – and Publishers Weekly bestsellers – are available in one convenient slipcased edition, in The Andrew Weil Audio Collection. Listeners love these helpful "housecalls" on audio from this trusted physician and authority on self-healing! The Andrew Weil Audio Collection includes these full length sessions:

Meditation for Optimum Health – with Jon Kabat-Zinn. An easy-to-follow introduction that makes it simple to enjoy the life-changing benefits of meditation. By learning to concentrate the power of attention through daily practice, listeners can harness the full potential of their minds, to enrich every dimension of daily experience. Step-by-step instructions cover four complete meditations.

Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing – A complete course of eight breathing exercises that Dr. Andrew Weil uses in his own life, and has prescribed to hundreds of patients over the past two decades. Useful for increasing energy, lowering blood pressure, improving circulation, and beating anxiety disorders naturally.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #254004 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11
• Formats: Audiobook, Student Edition, Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 4
• Binding: Audio CD

Features

• ISBN13: 9781564559494
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Dr. Andrew Weil, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, has worked for the National Institute of Mental Health and for 15 years was a research associate in enthnopharmacology at the Harvard Botanical Museum. As a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, he traveled extensively throughout the world collecting information about the medicinal properties of plants, altered states of consciousness, and healing. He is Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he practices natural and preventive medicine.

Customer Reviews

Meditation with your feet on the ground.
As a first step into meditation, I would strongly recommend listening to these tapes. The first 90 minutes is a clear explanation by first Weil, but mostly Jon Kabat Zinn, on the best way of understanding meditation, what it can do for your life and your health. Then follows a 45 minute guided meditation on watching the breath. I have purchased many books on Buddhism, meditation or yoga. Jon Kabat Zinn, who also wrote the brilliant book Full Catastrophe Living, is along with Thich Nhat Hahn, my favourite writer. Kabat Zinn is particularly good at explaining meditation as a way of working with problems, rather than wishing them away. The focus with Kabat Zinn is on accepting your experience, opening yourself up to it, seeing how pain is there, but it is not you, on living fully- mindfully not mindlessly. He is great for people who suffer pains, physical or emotional. I think this tape is a perfect introduction to meditation as a way of healing the heart.

Excellent First Choice for Learning Breath Yoga
If you have never done breath work before, Dr. Weil's CD: Breathing The Master Key to Self Healing is an excellent first choice that will provide a series of short exercises to improve your breathing technique, quiet your mind, and help you clear your daily tension and anxiety prior to deeper meditation. This initial preparation assumes that you know little about breath discipline (a form of Yoga), and takes you from the very beginning with a kindly voice and beautiful music. Dr. Weil's producer has taken care to provide the best quality sound, the best musicians, and even a high quality CD that will resist wear. (I use my CD every day on my bus commute to town.)

Helpful and Healing
This is my fourth purchase of Weil's CDs in the past 14 months. The first two were for my partner who was anticipating and then recovering from diverticulitis surgery. The second and third pairs were for friends enduring chemo and radiation after cancer surgery. The latest was for my oldest nephew who is dealing with a currently inoperable/untreatable intracranial hemorrage. My nephew, a hard-living Texas oil industry type, was the only one resistant to the concept. After actually trying the process, he's on his way to a 360. My partner and my friends didn't resist at all and put these meditational practices to good use immediately with very positive results. I might add that they, and I, continue to use the CDs for health maintenance.

I've been a fan of Dr. Weil's since his Eating Well for Optimum Health got me out of an unintentionally self-induced but serious health crisis. I'd recommend the CDs and the book as excellent purchases for anyone facing a well-being challenge, and as a particularly thoughtful gift for friends and family in need of support. They are five star contributions to the arts and crafts of living well and living WELL.