Rick Leskowitz, MD (psychiatrist) is the author of The Mystery of Life Energy (2024), It is now in paperback, and a great survey of why energy medicine is a vital complement to allopathic medicine. Enjoy the 15 min interview Dr. Leskowitz gave to Emma Bragdon, Executive Director of IMHU.
Energy Medicine: A Paradigm Shift
Western medicine is the world’s only healing tradition that doesn’t acknowledge the existence of an invisible healing energy or life force. This book shows what we’ve been missing, and how an energy-based paradigm shift can bring about a new era of healing, both personal and planetary.
In this book, Dr. Leskowitz describes his personal journey from science nerd to energy adept, and what he discovered on the way – highlighted by 79 illustrations, charts and photos!
Read the Foreword by David Feinstein PhD
Read an excerpt from the book- Chapter 6 (Phantom Limb Pain)
About Rick Leskowitz, MD
Currently semi-retired, Rick Leskowitz MD worked at the Pain Management Program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH) in Boston for over 25 years. He founded the hospital’s Integrative Medicine Project and was the Principal Investigator of a grant from the Langeloth Foundation to develop a comprehensive integrative medicine program at SRH.
Dr. Leskowitz has an appointment to the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Osher Research Institute, and has organized two HMS Continuing Medical Education conferences on “Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation”, plus guest lectureships with spiritual teacher Ram Dass, and Trisha Meili (the Central Park Jogger).
A long-time meditator, Dr. Leskowitz studied energy healing for many years with Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere, and received advanced training in clinical hypnosis from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. His clinical work focused on integrating such holistic therapies as meditation, hypnosis and energy psychology into the multidisciplinary pain management work done at SRH, and he had a particular interest in the biofield model of phantom limb pain.
He has edited three textbooks – Transpersonal Hypnosis (2000), Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation (2002) and Sports, Energy and Consciousness: Awakening Human Potential through Sport (2014) – and over 50 of his research articles can be found at ResearchGate.net.
Dr. Leskowitz has lectured and presented workshops regionally, nationally and internationally, most often with the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, which presented him with their Service Award in 2021. His documentary film on group energies in sports, The Joy of Sox: Weird Science and the Power of Intention, was broadcast nationally on PBS in 2012. He also has a longstanding interest in earth energies and global consciousness as catalysts for social transformation.
[Above content comes from the book’s page on it’s website]
Website: www.TheMysteryOfLifeEnergy.com
Purchase info: https://www.innertraditions.com/books/the-mystery-of-life-energy
Want to know more?
IMHU features Rick Leskowitz in a longer presentation HERE.
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