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Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth and Story to Awaken the Body's Energies

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Authors: Nancy Mellon, Ashley Ramsden
Creator: Donna Eden
Publisher: Energy Psychology Press
Category: Book

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ISBN: 1604150289
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN: 9781604150285
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Publication Date: July 15, 2008
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Have you ever had an ache or pain, and wished your body could talk to you and tell you what was wrong? You're not alone! Master storyteller Nancy Mellon, author of Body Eloquence, has guided scores of people through the process of giving their bodies a voice. Drawing from mythology, medicine, biology and energetic healing, she finds the essential stories that characterize each organ of the human body, and trains us how to use these resources to identify the messages that our organs are communicating to us.

The heart, for instance, is not just a durable pump, sending oxygenated blood to every cell. It's also a representation of goodwill; a heart-to-heart connection, or an openhearted friend, are universal stories we can all identify. But a hard-hearted person is one we all avoid. These archetypes are found in mythologies from Native American traditions to Scandinavian tribes to Greek history, and are woven together in a fascinating matrix in Body Eloquence, showing how our organs are part of our psyche, our history, and our collective mythology.

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Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth and Story to Awaken the Body's Energies November 8, 2009
B.C. Flournoy (Ohio)
Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth and Story to Awaken the Body's Energies

Your body is a living, breathing, memory of experiences, and your life's direction is determined by response or reaction to these experiences in the way you recall them. Life lessons help unfold and decode your responses into a narrative, which is being written even now, expressing through your wellness and being.

In the book, Body Eloquence, presented by UK's Nancy Mellon and the great story teller, Ashley Ramsden; we discuss the body's intricate memory of personal myth and how we keep that myth current, well-balanced and relevant to your present life narrative and well-being.

5 out of 5 stars

The body speaks April 14, 2009
Robert S. Reiser (Massachusetts, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

What is balance? We humans spend our lives trying to keep ourselves, our bodies, our societies, our world working in harmony. We use myths and ceremonies and music and dance to find balance and restore it when it is lost. In her extraordinary book, "Body Eloquence," Nancy Mellon, traces this age-old human quest right back to our bodies.

For years,Ms Mellon, a storyteller, a psychotherapist, a teacher and a writer has worked to find the ways in which stories can help heal pain, both physical and psychic.

During the last ten years I've seen this work emerge through her own study and through workshops she has run. The result is a book that is passionate, beautiful and unique.

In Ms Mellon's view, the human body is a chorus of many voices. Each major organ, from the brain to the liver to the lungs and spleen and on and on, is an essential voice in our choir, "gathering places of wisdom, continuously cooperating below the surface of our consciousness."

Interspersed through the book are are not only exercises for balancing the different parts of our body, but more than a hundred tales, some ancient, some new, all representing the wisdom of our own inner orchestra.

Stories, like dreams, are the medium for understanding the wisdom of the body. Music, dance, visual creations, all our arts are ways that those voices become conscious. But through stories we can truly communicate this wisdom to one another.

In fifteen years of storytelling, I've learned that every tale is a healing -- both for the teller and for the listener. As the Canadian storyteller, Dan Yashinsky, pointed out, they are the way "we reset our inner compass." They are the way we regain our balance -- as individuals, as a society, as a world.

Thank you, Nancy Mellon, for a book that grows richer and more moving with every reading.

5 out of 5 stars

A Path to Wisdom through Healing April 2, 2009
Penelope Smyth (Ireland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

From the moment you pick up this fascinating book. it invites you in with its beautiful cover, quality paper and print,and with the vitality that emanates from every page,

This is a book that every thinking person interested in the body needs to read, and to keep in his or her library.

It is finely crafted. Its style pulses along with its subject matter: the natural vitality and diversity of the human organs. Woven through every chapter in luminous fashion are marvelous stories. We discover how the expressive power of story can offer balance and renewing wholeness to body, mind and soul.

Underpinning the entire book is a wonderful compassion and a feeling for the human and how it manifests.

I recommend this book to parents, teachers, therapists and also to people working with organisations since this study of the body can be very well applied to the organism of an organisation, bringing greater consciousness and understanding of where it is functioning well and where it is out of balance. If functions are not well regulated and agreed to, every part of the organism struggles. This book is a creative guidebook for harmonising differentiated parts, and for attaining a fullness of personal and organizational health and happiness.

5 out of 5 stars

Profound Insight into the Realities of the Physical March 23, 2009
Daniel TwoEagles (Contoocook Nimiti)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

The book is unique, in the true meaning of the word. The chapters provide a path that can be transformed by each individual to a profound and essential understanding of the realities of the physical body. With that understanding one can choose to heal, to create, to live. The book is a gift to the self and to the journey here on Earth in which we all participate. Thank you, Nancy Mellon, for providing the insights that can only come from the wisdom of experience and the particular talent of guiding another to self knowledge.

5 out of 5 stars

A Nurses Awakening March 20, 2009
Cathy P. Patel (Orland Park, Il)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

As a nurse I will never again view the body in a one-dimensional, pragmatic way. The author has sensitively woven the fabric to feel and see the anatomy in a deeper and more profound way. Through eclectic and myriad stories Ms. Mellon has creatively linked the body and feelings. The great potential for insight, growth and healing are the natural results of this combination. Body Eloquence is not only eloquent but exquisitely unique----BRAVO

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