CANDACE PERT. I deeply admire her and love her book Molecules of Emotion, her biographical story as a researcher at the NIH and her pioneer discovery of the biology of emotions. For some unknown reason, I just found out she passed away September 2013, and i am in complete SHOCK. Asking myself questions like, How did i miss it? Did she really died? Sometimes some authors become eternal in your mind. You cant believe they will one day disappear from this earth. The good thing, is that they leave such a legacy, that by reading the book again and again, you seem to bring them back to life. You never met them in person, but you feel as if you know them intimately. May be because i am in the midst of this amazing new field called yoga therapy, training and being trained, serving and being served, is that Candaces work has so much relevance for me, and for those i serve. I am so grateful to have been alive during her lifetime and read her book while she was alive. Candace, you have contributed so much to the understanding and relieving of human suffering and pioneering into the misunderstood and controversial world of Holistic Medicine, giving it credibility with your credentials, knowledge and wisdom. May you experience peace wherever you are. ...She became a leading proponent of the unity of mind and body, and the ability of emotions to affect health. When Bill Moyers, in a 1993 PBS special, “Healing and the Mind,” asked her, “Are you saying that the mind talks to the body, so to speak, through these neuropeptides?” she answered, “Why are you making the mind outside of the body?” She was also featured prominently in the 2004 film “What the #$*! Do We Know!?” which attempted to bridge science and spirituality. In her best-known book, “Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine,” published in 1997, Dr. Pert advocated a more holistic approach to understanding health. “I’ve come to believe that virtually all illness, if not psychosomatic in foundation, has a definite psychosomatic component,” she wrote. The “molecules of emotion,” she argued, “run every system in our body,” creating a “bodymind’s intelligence” that is “wise enough to seek wellness” without a great deal of high-tech medical intervention. The author Deepak Chopra, who wrote the foreword to “Molecules of Emotion,” called the book a “landmark in our understanding of the mind body connection.” (an excerpt from nytimes/2013/09/20/science/candace-pert-67-explorer-of-the-brain-dies.html?_r=0)
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