Body Mind Balancing:
Using Your Mind to Heal Your Body
by Osho
Using Your Mind to Heal Your Body
by Osho
BODY MIND BALANCING by Osho
Category: Non-Fiction
Age Recommendation: Grades 9+
Release Date: 4/14/05
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Reviewed by: Carrie Spellman
Rating: 4 Stars
The concept of BODY MIND BALANCING is that our thoughts and ideas have been trained to be one way, while our
bodies operate naturally, which generally puts the two at odds. The harder you try to force them together, the more they
fight each other. This book hopes to help you find a way to balance them, so that you can function at your highest level
mentally, physically, and emotionally. It only follows naturally that if each person could reach their best level, the world as
a whole would be better.
This book requires that you keep an open mind. I also found that you have to be willing to take the author with a large
grain of salt. There are times when he seems to be overly impressed with his own intelligence and message. He seems to
have some issues with major religions in general. Also, not all of his ideas are completely real world practical.
If you can get past those things you'll find that the author makes some very good points in this book. Many of them seem
so simple and obvious it's hard to imagine that we don't automatically behave that way. I especially liked the
idea/realization that your body knows what it wants and when it wants it. To give it different things when it doesn't want
them seems absurd, yet we all do it every day.
Included with the book is a meditation CD. I'm not sure I can review it for you. All guided meditation attempts seem to
put me to sleep. Unless it was actually just a really deep state of meditation, in which case, it worked!
Category: Non-Fiction
Age Recommendation: Grades 9+
Release Date: 4/14/05
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Reviewed by: Carrie Spellman
Rating: 4 Stars
The concept of BODY MIND BALANCING is that our thoughts and ideas have been trained to be one way, while our
bodies operate naturally, which generally puts the two at odds. The harder you try to force them together, the more they
fight each other. This book hopes to help you find a way to balance them, so that you can function at your highest level
mentally, physically, and emotionally. It only follows naturally that if each person could reach their best level, the world as
a whole would be better.
This book requires that you keep an open mind. I also found that you have to be willing to take the author with a large
grain of salt. There are times when he seems to be overly impressed with his own intelligence and message. He seems to
have some issues with major religions in general. Also, not all of his ideas are completely real world practical.
If you can get past those things you'll find that the author makes some very good points in this book. Many of them seem
so simple and obvious it's hard to imagine that we don't automatically behave that way. I especially liked the
idea/realization that your body knows what it wants and when it wants it. To give it different things when it doesn't want
them seems absurd, yet we all do it every day.
Included with the book is a meditation CD. I'm not sure I can review it for you. All guided meditation attempts seem to
put me to sleep. Unless it was actually just a really deep state of meditation, in which case, it worked!