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Staying Healthy in a Stressful World ($29.95)
Stress may well be the scourge of the modern world, but it doesn't have to be. Body & Soul goes behind-the-scenes of the Mind/Body Medical Institute (MBMI) in Boston to meet two people who suffer from heart disease and a third who comes to the program on a preventative basis. At the MBMI, each individual learns how to manage stress by using a few simple techniques. An interview with pioneer mind/body researcher Herbert Benson, M.D., explores the causes and results of stress and explains how the 'relaxation response' can be so helpful in reducing it. The program also includes a guided meditation.
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Lessons from the Heart ($29.95)
Body & Soul follows a Wisconsin cardiologist who was at first a skeptic and has now embraced a stress reduction program called Heartmath, which teaches people to 'even out' their heart rates through a series of mind/body exercises. Best-selling author and Buddhist priest Lama Surya Das explains how to cultivate a happy heart while moving through everyday activities. The final segment visits a spiritual retreat in France.
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Overcoming Anger: Healing From Within ($29.95)
This episode introduces viewers to a husband and wife team who study anger professionally to learn how to let go of anger and become happier and healthier. Then, author Robin Casargian discusses the healing power of forgiveness. Also included is a visit to one of the prisons where Casargian teaches inmates how to incorporate forgiveness into their daily lives.
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Partners in Healing: Mind, Body and Prayer ($29.95)
Body & Soul discovers ways of using the mind/body connection to prepare for surgery and heal faster through a series of techniques used before, during and after surgery. Patients who use this approach heal more quickly, go home sooner and require less pain medication. Larry Dossey, M.D., one of the world's foremost experts on spirituality in medicine, discusses the healing power of prayer. The program visits a place in Missouri where volunteers pray 24 hours a day for complete strangers.
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Aging Well: Memory and Movement ($29.95)
Body & Soul travels to Tucson, Arizona, to look into the work of Dharma Singh Kalsa, M.D., on ways to counter memory loss. Viewers see some of the specific techniques he uses and hear from his patients about how the program has worked for them. Dr. Andrew Weil discusses ways to remain active, healthy and engaged with life throughout the aging process. Also, an exciting new research project underway in Atlanta explores the use of Tai Chi to maintain flexibility and balance for elders.
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Optimal Aging: Slowing Down the Clock ($29.95)
Gail Harris visits the Corsello Center of Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Manhattan to find out how to achieve optimal aging through a variety of diagnostic techniques, stress reduction and dietary changes. Dr. Serafina Corsello explains how to take good care of the digestive system. Also featured is the Bates Vision Method, a holistic method of eye exercises designed to improve vision at any age.
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Health and Happiness: Starting the Search ($29.95)
The inaugural program in the second season features an innovative doctor who practices 'new medicine,' which views each patient as a whole person. James Gordon, M.D. teaches viewers how to achieve optimal health, even if they're already healthy. Also, world-renowned Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shows how to live a happier and healthier life through practicing mindfulness. This episode also features Gabrielle Roth, who teaches her healing form of ecstatic dance in workshops all over the world.
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Biological Medicine ($29.95)
Body & Soul travels to the Paracelsus Klinic in Switzerland to learn more about the theories and practice of biological medicine, a highly sophisticated holistic medical approach that has had remarkable success in treating people with acute and chronic disease. In the featured interview, scientist, teacher and researcher Thomas Rau, M.D., explains how biological medicine differs from conventional Western medical practice. The program also visits the ancient city of Tikal, Guatemala, long regarded as one of the world's special healing places.
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Health & Hunches: Unlocking Your Intuition ($29.95)
Described as the 'sixth sense,' intuition is used by everyone from parents to business executives. The program explores why it's important and how to gain access to it. Physician and medical intuitive Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., describes how she began developing her intuitive abilities and why she uses them in her work. Finally, viewers hear the story of a patient who consulted with Dr. Schulz about a fibroid tumor and wound up learning far more than she had expected.
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Creating Wellness: Taking Time, Making Time ($29.95)
On location at the Omega Institute in upstate New York, Body & Soul finds out how people can be happier and healthier by becoming more aware of how they use their time. An interview with Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D., explores ways to be more fully alive by consciously slowing down the rapid pace of life. The program concludes with the 'raisin meditation,' showing how something as simple as eating a raisin with full awareness can extend to other aspects of life.
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East-West Medicine ($29.95)
Thousands of conventionally trained doctors are incorporating complementary healing techniques into their practices. This program visits a Boston health-care provider where East meets West under one roof. Also, cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, author of 'Heartbreak and Heart Disease,' offers some interesting insights into the changing face of medical practice. Two Reiki masters discuss this gentle form of hands-on healing.
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Ancient Healing ($29.95)
Among the healing therapies that have persevered for thousands of years is the practice of moxibustion, a form of acupuncture that has had extraordinary success in reversing breech babies before birth. Body & Soul visits a new mother to learn about her experience with it, and learns more about other techniques of traditional Chinese medicine. Later, viewers hear about how Chinese medicine differs from conventional Western medicine in an interview with Ted Kaptchuk, O.M.D., one of the first Americans to study in Macao. Finally, the program travels to Guatemala to see how shamans use drums, music and a deep reverence for nature to heal people and the earth.
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Peak Performance: Sports and the Mind ($29.95)
This episode goes behind-the-scenes of the Boston College men's basketball team to find out why they're using mind/body techniques to build a new, winning team. Sports psychologist George Mumford explains how meditation and visualization can help even the 'weekend warrior' become a better athlete. Finally, rower and author Craig Lambert shows viewers how a tiny boat and scenic river can combine to create a beautiful and poetic meditation on life.
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Waking Up the Brain: Amazing Adjustments ($29.95)
Chiropractic treatment been around for more than a hundred years, but only recently has it begun finding acceptance as part of Western medical care. In this program, viewers meet a chiropractic neurologist, Ted Carrick, D.C. Ph.D., and two of the patients he treated successfully when more conventional approaches had failed.
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Ode to Joy ($29.95)
Doctors now have evidence that a happy, optimistic attitude can increase health and longevity. Body & Soul features the inspiring words and music of gospel singer Sister Alice Williams, who teaches people of all colors how to 'make a joyful noise.' Psychologist Stella Resnick, Ph.D., has additional ideas on how to let go and be happy, and best-selling author Sarah Ban Breathnach offers some ways to appreciate the simple pleasures of life.
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Mindful Eating ($29.95)
Body & Soul learns from a Florida nurse how she learned to control her eating habits and made her life happier as well as healthier in the process. In the featured interview, author Geneen Roth explains why no one should ever diet. And viewers find out how mindful eating -- learning to slow down and enjoy what is eaten -- may be the most effective weight control method of all.
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Making Work Meaningful ($29.95)
Body & Soul visits the 'tire king' of Minneapolis, who uses spiritual principles to achieve material success in his multimillion-dollar tire business, with corporate headquarters that include a meditation room and a place for shiatsu massage. Poet David Whyte explains why the American workplace is in the process of changing because it must. Finally, the program explores the ancient Chinese principles of feng shui and how it can make businesses more competitive in the global marketplace.
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Raising Happy, Healthy Kids ($29.95)
More and more parents are becoming concerned about the use (and abuse) of antibiotics for a variety of childhood illnesses. But what are the alternatives? Body & Soul visits a naturopathic clinic in Vermont in the search for answers. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. and his wife, childbirth educator Myla Kabat-Zinn discuss ways to incorporate mindfulness techniques into parenting. Finally, the program checks in on Adventure Game Theatre, a non-competitive game used to help adolescents figure out issues of identity and independence.
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Lenny's Story: Cancer and the Quality of Life ($29.95)
For more than five months, a Body & Soul team followed cancer patient Lenny Zakim for this documentary-style report on his search for a better quality of life through complementary therapies. Viewers watch as Lenny visits his acupuncturist, massage therapist and spiritual healer, works with his physical trainer and attends a special healing service at his synagogue. The interviews explore why Lenny chose to add complementary treatments to his conventional cancer therapies, the role both can play for cancer patients and the distinction between healing and curing someone with cancer.
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Lenny's Story Part II: Cancer and the Search for Healing ($29.95)
This program continues the report on Lenny Zakim and his search for a better quality of life through complementary therapies.
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