Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients
by Bernie S. Siegel
"Some teachers recommend focusing your attention on a symbolic sound or word (a mantra), or on a single images, such as a flame or a mandala. Others focus on the relaxed ebb and flow of the breath.... The end of all methods is ultimately the same: a deeply restful emptiness, or trance, that strengthens the mind by freeing it from its accustomed turmoil."
"As part of his training, Jerry was sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium. He was frightened that he would contract the disease.... One night he was called to see a woman with active tuberculosis, who had a massive pulmonary hemorrhage and cardiac arrest. He gave her mouth to mouth resuscitation, and the nurses told him, "How could you do that? Now you're going to get tuberculosis." He never did, and he realized that he was not vulnerable while he was doing something for someone out of love."