Review of The Living Temple
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[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "The Living Temple" by Mehul Hathi.]
What if the medicine for your chronic pain was lying in your body all along? What causes a man with a life-threatening heart condition to live close to three decades past medical expectations? The Living Temple: How Your Body Heals Itself from the Inside Out by Mehul Hathi is a book based on the author’s research on unexplained gaps or divergences between the medical prognosis and eventual outcomes of different patients with chronic conditions. It emerged from the author's research that the answers to the questions above lie not in a new or groundbreaking medical technique but in unblocking the body’s natural ability to heal itself. This active approach, in which the patient is co-responsible for their healing, contrasts with modern ways in which disease, especially of the chronic type, is managed. Even though this book features many ideas and concepts from mindfulness meditation, the novelty here is that the author explains these concepts from a neuroscientific or physiological perspective.
The first thing I like about this book is the author’s honesty and frankness about the efficacy of the methods in this book. From the very beginning and at various points in the book, the author cautioned, often with explanations, that the methods in this book are not substitutes for modern medicine but complements. The different testimonials in this book, from patients of different professional backgrounds and ages, give the reader a true sense of what to expect from the presented techniques in terms of the type of chronic medical conditions it can address. The second great thing about this book is how practical it is. There are multiple tables and charts in the book containing reference material and healing routines of varying difficulty that make revisiting it a breeze. Thirdly, the content in this book is relatable and easily accessible, especially for people with at least high school knowledge of biology. I confess to being guilty of some of the things described in this book, such as feeling way anxious after doomscrolling all day and not being able to explain the subsequent insomnia. Lastly, this book was well edited, featuring no grammatical errors; thus, reading was smooth and enjoyable.
In summary, I appreciated the author’s honesty regarding expected outcomes from following the presented methods, the practical approach of the methods, the convincing and relatable testimonials in the book, the accessible nature of the technical content, and how well edited the book was. There is nothing I disliked about the book; it was free of profanity, sexual, and violent content. This would be a great fit for people with chronic diseases that have proved challenging to cure via modern medicine. This book is a solid 5 out of 5 stars for me.
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The Living Temple
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What if the medicine for your chronic pain was lying in your body all along? What causes a man with a life-threatening heart condition to live close to three decades past medical expectations? The Living Temple: How Your Body Heals Itself from the Inside Out by Mehul Hathi is a book based on the author’s research on unexplained gaps or divergences between the medical prognosis and eventual outcomes of different patients with chronic conditions. It emerged from the author's research that the answers to the questions above lie not in a new or groundbreaking medical technique but in unblocking the body’s natural ability to heal itself. This active approach, in which the patient is co-responsible for their healing, contrasts with modern ways in which disease, especially of the chronic type, is managed. Even though this book features many ideas and concepts from mindfulness meditation, the novelty here is that the author explains these concepts from a neuroscientific or physiological perspective.
The first thing I like about this book is the author’s honesty and frankness about the efficacy of the methods in this book. From the very beginning and at various points in the book, the author cautioned, often with explanations, that the methods in this book are not substitutes for modern medicine but complements. The different testimonials in this book, from patients of different professional backgrounds and ages, give the reader a true sense of what to expect from the presented techniques in terms of the type of chronic medical conditions it can address. The second great thing about this book is how practical it is. There are multiple tables and charts in the book containing reference material and healing routines of varying difficulty that make revisiting it a breeze. Thirdly, the content in this book is relatable and easily accessible, especially for people with at least high school knowledge of biology. I confess to being guilty of some of the things described in this book, such as feeling way anxious after doomscrolling all day and not being able to explain the subsequent insomnia. Lastly, this book was well edited, featuring no grammatical errors; thus, reading was smooth and enjoyable.
In summary, I appreciated the author’s honesty regarding expected outcomes from following the presented methods, the practical approach of the methods, the convincing and relatable testimonials in the book, the accessible nature of the technical content, and how well edited the book was. There is nothing I disliked about the book; it was free of profanity, sexual, and violent content. This would be a great fit for people with chronic diseases that have proved challenging to cure via modern medicine. This book is a solid 5 out of 5 stars for me.
******
The Living Temple
View: on Bookshelves |
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