Our digestive system plays an unusual role in mind/body health in that unlike most of the body other than the brain and spinal cord, it contains the largest concentration of brain-like cells and neurotransmitters. The “trust your gut” concept is just as important as trusting your brain. This convenient, short-listen audiobook explores how the brain in your head and the brain in your gut can work together to improve your health. This is the 10th book in this series.

The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of 10 short books that review latest thinking and research findings in integrative medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of mainstream medicine for more than a century.

The focus of this book is on what and how the body - down to the subcellular level - reacts to its environment and how the mind can be intentionally used to affect the health through self-talk, imagery, meditation, and hypnotherapy. The ideas discussed are based upon thousands of research studies conducted by major US and international medical schools and research facilities.

The series includes the following books:

• The Mind/Body Connection
• The New Biology
• The Neurology of Mind/Body Health
• Transformation Revisited
• The Immune System Primer
• Using Imagery to Heal
• A Quick Pain Management Primer
• Healing the Body Basics
• The Mind, Surgery, and Recovery
• Calming Your Gut

This series is by Tim Brunson, who holds both doctor of clinical hypnotherapy and doctor of philosophy in clinical hypnotherapy degrees, has practiced hypnotherapy for 29 years with clients and patients referred to him by medical and mental health practitioners, has trained clinicians internationally, and has almost 3,000 hours of training much of which was medical and mental health related. Many of his courses are already available through Amazon in either short or longer version books.

The basis of this series is much more than clinical experience and training. Dr. Brunson has used these concepts for his personal health and to vastly improve is own health-care experiences. This includes surgery and recovery to include addressing multiple skin-cancer tumors and outpatient surgeries during which he was fully aware and underwent the procedures without sedation.