Be Careful What You Pray For You Might Just Get It or French Toast for Breakfast

Be Careful What You Pray For, You Might Just Get It: What We Can Do About the Unintentional Effects of Our Thoughts, Prayers and Wishes

Author: Larry Dossey

Dr. Larry Dossey, the nation,s foremost authority on prayer in medicine, warns that just as prayer can be used to positively affect health and healing, it can also be used for negative and destructive means. Through remarkable true stories, case histories, and scientific analysis, Dossey explores the nature of ‘toxic, prayer and teaches us how we can protect ourselves from its threatening influence.

Napra Review

A solid work of scholarship, a thoughtful and significant book.

What People Are Saying

Joan Borysenko
"With penetrating insight and meticulous research, Dr. Dossey revels the power of prayer to harm as well as to help. This book will forever change how you think and what you pray for."

Jeanne Achterberg
"Brilliant, poetic, scholarly...The imperative is urgent and clear: we must assume a high level of responsibility for our negative and hurtful thoughts, wishes, and prayers for one another."

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Pt. 1	Can Prayer Harm?
Pt. 2	Negative Prayer in Everyday Life
Pt. 3	The Biology of Curses
Pt. 4	The Scientific Evidence
Pt. 5	Protection
	Afterword: Should We Clean Up Prayer?
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Index

New interesting textbook: Serenity Principle or Its Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed

French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating

Author: Mary Anne Cohen

This is a warm and compassionate guide to understanding the emotions that underlie eating problems: shame, anger, guilt, sexual difficulties, and the fear of success. Clearly written for people concerned about food and weight issues, it is intended to help readers see food as their friend and nourisher, not their enemy. French Toast For Breakfast is filled with practical exercises, dialogues from actual therapy sessions, straight-forward answers to common questions, an in-depth comparison of treatment options, and a look at relapse - how to prevent it and what to do if it occurs. It also includes a unique questionnaire to help readers determine which path to peace is best for them.

What People Are Saying

Rebecca Ruggles Radcliffe
A very helpful resource for understanding the inner workings of our obsessions with food, thinness, and dieting. A clear path for beginning the healing process.
—(Rebecca Ruggles Radcliffe, Author of Enlightened Eating)

Judith Rabinor
A wise and wonderful, sensitive and sane contribution. Cohen offers a user-friendly guide to understanding and healing the battle with food, fat, and body hatred. Beautifully written.
— Judith Ruskay Rabinor, Ph.D., Director, The American Eating Disorder Center of Long Island