BOOKS
by Robert Bruce Newman
by Robert Bruce Newman
Calm Birth, Revised:
Prenatal Meditation for Conscious Childbirth
https://www.amazon.com/Calm-Birth-Revised-Meditation-Childbirth/dp/1623170575/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471121207&sr=1-1&keywords=Calm+Birth%2C+Revised%3A+Prenatal+Meditation+for+Conscious+Childbirth
Paperback – Revised August, 2016
by Robert Bruce Newman (Author)
Preview:
https://books.google.com/books?id=YCvjCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Prenatal Meditation for Conscious Childbirth
https://www.amazon.com/Calm-Birth-Revised-Meditation-Childbirth/dp/1623170575/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471121207&sr=1-1&keywords=Calm+Birth%2C+Revised%3A+Prenatal+Meditation+for+Conscious+Childbirth
Paperback – Revised August, 2016
by Robert Bruce Newman (Author)
Preview:
https://books.google.com/books?id=YCvjCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
From: Introduction To Calm Birth™
by David Chamberlain, Ph.D.
. . . Calm Birth™ gives women and birth professionals practical means to improve the quality of childbirth. Like the venerable educational programs inspired by Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, Dr. Fernand Lamaze, and Dr. Robert Bradley, Calm Birth™ seeks to empower women for natural childbirth and offers ideas and practical methods for them to succeed. Like the previous programs, Calm Birth™ recognizes the central challenge posed by fear and pain, though its solution is different, and it recognizes the importance of breathing, though it teaches a form of deep, rather than shallow, breathing.
. . . Calm Birth™ works with both physical anatomy and energy body anatomy, drawing on quantum physics and meditation science to access energies that are invisible but very much present. Likewise breathing is more than physical, adding appreciation of new childbirth anatomy and potential.
Calm Birth™ raises urgent questions about the mental and emotional quality of birth today and offers methods to help mothers take more responsibility for themselves and their babies. This should reduce complications, increase maternal feelings of dignity and triumph, and make all birth attendants happy. Calm Birth™ will help parents to see pregnancy as a master path, an opportunity to support fuller development of their own healthy and happy babies, and perhaps to provide them with the ultimate opportunity to give human evolution a boost in the right direction.
Calm Birth is a sublime gift to us all. The positive impact of it on society can't be overestimated.
“I wholeheartedly endorse the Calm Birth program. This work is at the heart of healthy and empowering childbirth—an experience which has the power to transform and uplift a woman's relationship to her body and her child for life. Calm Birth is preventive and empowering medicine at its best.”
--Christiane Northrup, M.D., FACOG,
author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and Mother Daughter Wisdom
“…Based on meditation and the best principles of established psychosomatic medicine… compassionately guides mothers-to-be and new mothers through carefully structured relaxation and meditation practices … An empowering alternative to the 'medicalization of birth,' the techniques liberate women to channel their innate wisdom into welcoming their newborn child in a truly life affirming way.”
--Thomas R. Verny, M.D., DPsych, DHL, FRCPC, founder, the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), author of
Tomorrow's Baby and The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
"Calm Birth is the childbirth method that society and I have waited for. It's been a long time coming, a very long time. I am a midwife and an educator, with a steady devotion to childbirth. I urge everyone to buy Robert Newman's inspired book...It does what is so deeply needed. It heals the Earth by healing birth."
--Jeannine Parvati Baker, childbirth educator and midwife
author of Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth and Conscious Conception
“Calm Birth is a sublime gift to all of us. It contains the blueprint for reconnecting with birth wisdom on all levels. Reading through this book and doing the practices will transform the birth process and imprint a peaceful beginning in both mother and child. The positive impact of this on society can't be overestimated.”
--Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"Calm Birth is the childbirth method that society and I have waited for. It's been a long time in coming, a very long time. I am a midwife and an educator, with a steady devotion to childbirth. I urge everyone to buy Robert Newman's inspired book. Every library - public, institutional, and personal - must have copies of Calm Birth. The book does what is so deeply needed. It heals the Earth by healing birth."
—Jeannine Parvati Baker, LM, author of Conscious Conception and Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth
"Childbirth in America is in trouble. But that is not the major message of this wonderful book, just the opposite. The author, Newman, acknowledges the "medicalization of birth" and its numerous implications. But more so, Newman offers a program called "Calm Birth" as a potent solution. It follows the tradition of the earlier pioneers such as Dick-Read, Lamaze, and Bradley in offering practical and ground-breaking solutions to the stresses of birth, but exceeds their efforts by a wide margin. This is essential reading for birth and other professionals who handle birth-related impacts, such as pediatricians, pre and perinatal practitioners, childbirth educators, doulas, midwives, nurses, and others. Calm Birth is essential reading for expectant parents who can promote the health of their babies and prevent unnecessary negative impacts. And the book is magnificent reading!"
—William Emerson, Ph.D.
President, The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health
"Calm Birth will help parents see pregnancy as a master path, an opportunity to support fuller development of their babies, and perhaps to provide them with the ultimate opportunity to give human evolution a boost in the right direction."
—David Chamberlain, Ph.D. Author, The mind of your Newborn Baby (1998); Windows on the Womb (2013);
former president The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health.
"Robert Newman's Calm Birth program provides couples and professionals alike a beautiful map, a method and a philosophy, to prepare for birth in a way that honors and helps them connect with their deepest innate nature and abilities. Meditation methods in Calm Birth opens up a vista of hope, empowerment, inner wisdom, and confidence to trust the ability to birth naturally. Families' stories gracefully illuminate how Calm Birth ignites transformational experience in life, pregnancy, birth, and beyond. I hope you read this book."
Wendy Anne McCarty, Ph.D., R.N. Author, Welcoming Consciousness (2005);
Founding Chair, Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Program, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
"Calm Birth, A new Method for Conscious Childbirth by Robert Bruce Newman, successfully bridges ancient feminine healing wisdom and meditation to contemporary birth practices. With a broad overview of the history of birth, and deep personal knowledge of meditation, the author presents practical methods which have the power to redefine birth from a "medical problem" to a natural human process that blesses life itself. With the possibility of safe and calm birth, bonding and trust occur easily and naturally and spread to family, community, and beyond. This book is a must for anyone interested in childbirth."
Barbara Findeisen, M.F.T., President, the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH).
by David Chamberlain, Ph.D.
. . . Calm Birth™ gives women and birth professionals practical means to improve the quality of childbirth. Like the venerable educational programs inspired by Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, Dr. Fernand Lamaze, and Dr. Robert Bradley, Calm Birth™ seeks to empower women for natural childbirth and offers ideas and practical methods for them to succeed. Like the previous programs, Calm Birth™ recognizes the central challenge posed by fear and pain, though its solution is different, and it recognizes the importance of breathing, though it teaches a form of deep, rather than shallow, breathing.
. . . Calm Birth™ works with both physical anatomy and energy body anatomy, drawing on quantum physics and meditation science to access energies that are invisible but very much present. Likewise breathing is more than physical, adding appreciation of new childbirth anatomy and potential.
Calm Birth™ raises urgent questions about the mental and emotional quality of birth today and offers methods to help mothers take more responsibility for themselves and their babies. This should reduce complications, increase maternal feelings of dignity and triumph, and make all birth attendants happy. Calm Birth™ will help parents to see pregnancy as a master path, an opportunity to support fuller development of their own healthy and happy babies, and perhaps to provide them with the ultimate opportunity to give human evolution a boost in the right direction.
Calm Birth is a sublime gift to us all. The positive impact of it on society can't be overestimated.
“I wholeheartedly endorse the Calm Birth program. This work is at the heart of healthy and empowering childbirth—an experience which has the power to transform and uplift a woman's relationship to her body and her child for life. Calm Birth is preventive and empowering medicine at its best.”
--Christiane Northrup, M.D., FACOG,
author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and Mother Daughter Wisdom
“…Based on meditation and the best principles of established psychosomatic medicine… compassionately guides mothers-to-be and new mothers through carefully structured relaxation and meditation practices … An empowering alternative to the 'medicalization of birth,' the techniques liberate women to channel their innate wisdom into welcoming their newborn child in a truly life affirming way.”
--Thomas R. Verny, M.D., DPsych, DHL, FRCPC, founder, the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), author of
Tomorrow's Baby and The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
"Calm Birth is the childbirth method that society and I have waited for. It's been a long time coming, a very long time. I am a midwife and an educator, with a steady devotion to childbirth. I urge everyone to buy Robert Newman's inspired book...It does what is so deeply needed. It heals the Earth by healing birth."
--Jeannine Parvati Baker, childbirth educator and midwife
author of Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth and Conscious Conception
“Calm Birth is a sublime gift to all of us. It contains the blueprint for reconnecting with birth wisdom on all levels. Reading through this book and doing the practices will transform the birth process and imprint a peaceful beginning in both mother and child. The positive impact of this on society can't be overestimated.”
--Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"Calm Birth is the childbirth method that society and I have waited for. It's been a long time in coming, a very long time. I am a midwife and an educator, with a steady devotion to childbirth. I urge everyone to buy Robert Newman's inspired book. Every library - public, institutional, and personal - must have copies of Calm Birth. The book does what is so deeply needed. It heals the Earth by healing birth."
—Jeannine Parvati Baker, LM, author of Conscious Conception and Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth
"Childbirth in America is in trouble. But that is not the major message of this wonderful book, just the opposite. The author, Newman, acknowledges the "medicalization of birth" and its numerous implications. But more so, Newman offers a program called "Calm Birth" as a potent solution. It follows the tradition of the earlier pioneers such as Dick-Read, Lamaze, and Bradley in offering practical and ground-breaking solutions to the stresses of birth, but exceeds their efforts by a wide margin. This is essential reading for birth and other professionals who handle birth-related impacts, such as pediatricians, pre and perinatal practitioners, childbirth educators, doulas, midwives, nurses, and others. Calm Birth is essential reading for expectant parents who can promote the health of their babies and prevent unnecessary negative impacts. And the book is magnificent reading!"
—William Emerson, Ph.D.
President, The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health
"Calm Birth will help parents see pregnancy as a master path, an opportunity to support fuller development of their babies, and perhaps to provide them with the ultimate opportunity to give human evolution a boost in the right direction."
—David Chamberlain, Ph.D. Author, The mind of your Newborn Baby (1998); Windows on the Womb (2013);
former president The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health.
"Robert Newman's Calm Birth program provides couples and professionals alike a beautiful map, a method and a philosophy, to prepare for birth in a way that honors and helps them connect with their deepest innate nature and abilities. Meditation methods in Calm Birth opens up a vista of hope, empowerment, inner wisdom, and confidence to trust the ability to birth naturally. Families' stories gracefully illuminate how Calm Birth ignites transformational experience in life, pregnancy, birth, and beyond. I hope you read this book."
Wendy Anne McCarty, Ph.D., R.N. Author, Welcoming Consciousness (2005);
Founding Chair, Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Program, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
"Calm Birth, A new Method for Conscious Childbirth by Robert Bruce Newman, successfully bridges ancient feminine healing wisdom and meditation to contemporary birth practices. With a broad overview of the history of birth, and deep personal knowledge of meditation, the author presents practical methods which have the power to redefine birth from a "medical problem" to a natural human process that blesses life itself. With the possibility of safe and calm birth, bonding and trust occur easily and naturally and spread to family, community, and beyond. This book is a must for anyone interested in childbirth."
Barbara Findeisen, M.F.T., President, the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH).
Empowered Care
Mind–Body Medicine Methods Book"No approach to medicine and healing can be adequate if it does not include attention to the role of mind, consciousness, and spirit. Extensive research confirms this, and there is no going back to the strictly materialistic views of the past. Empowered Care is a valuable look at the how these elements are being integrated into modern medicine. EMPOWERED CARE is the medicine of the future. Let Newman and Miller be your guide."
—Larry Dossey, MD Author: Healing Words; Reinventing Medicine; The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things
"For the past few decades there has been increasing talk about Body, Mind and Spirit, although rarely is there any real Action of Spiritual engagement.. Mind is, of course, our conscious connection to Spirit, but the Power of Spirit needs to be invoked. True healing ultimately requires active interaction with Spiritual force. The time has come for EMPOWERED CARE!
--C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association. Author: The Creation of Health; Miracles do Happen; Life Beyond 100 / Secrets of the Fountain of Youth
Praise for the first edition of Empowered Care
"This work offers extraordinary and essential insight into wholeness and healing. To read Calm Healing is to experience the essential light and healing that are available to all of us right now, at this very moment. So helpful. Such a relief."
—Christiane Northrup, MD Author,
Mother-Daughter Wisdom and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"Newman and Miller have written a virtual bible or primer for a new medicine. Not only have they explored it's history and science, but they have created actual protocols and prayers - word by word incantations. Thus the book is not only an account of possibility. It is the manual, the starting point for practice. What we have here is a rare thing: phonemes that are things, statements that breathe medicines."
--Richard Grossinger, PhD,
author of Planet Medicine, Embryogenesis; Galaxies, Embryos, and Sentient Beings
Mind–Body Medicine Methods Book"No approach to medicine and healing can be adequate if it does not include attention to the role of mind, consciousness, and spirit. Extensive research confirms this, and there is no going back to the strictly materialistic views of the past. Empowered Care is a valuable look at the how these elements are being integrated into modern medicine. EMPOWERED CARE is the medicine of the future. Let Newman and Miller be your guide."
—Larry Dossey, MD Author: Healing Words; Reinventing Medicine; The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things
"For the past few decades there has been increasing talk about Body, Mind and Spirit, although rarely is there any real Action of Spiritual engagement.. Mind is, of course, our conscious connection to Spirit, but the Power of Spirit needs to be invoked. True healing ultimately requires active interaction with Spiritual force. The time has come for EMPOWERED CARE!
--C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association. Author: The Creation of Health; Miracles do Happen; Life Beyond 100 / Secrets of the Fountain of Youth
Praise for the first edition of Empowered Care
"This work offers extraordinary and essential insight into wholeness and healing. To read Calm Healing is to experience the essential light and healing that are available to all of us right now, at this very moment. So helpful. Such a relief."
—Christiane Northrup, MD Author,
Mother-Daughter Wisdom and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"Newman and Miller have written a virtual bible or primer for a new medicine. Not only have they explored it's history and science, but they have created actual protocols and prayers - word by word incantations. Thus the book is not only an account of possibility. It is the manual, the starting point for practice. What we have here is a rare thing: phonemes that are things, statements that breathe medicines."
--Richard Grossinger, PhD,
author of Planet Medicine, Embryogenesis; Galaxies, Embryos, and Sentient Beings
Disciples of the Buddha: Living Images of Meditation
by Robert Newman (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Disciples-Buddha-Living-Images-Meditation/dp/1887276211
Cultural Writing. Religion & Spirituality. Art. Asian Studies. Introduction by Chogyam Trungpa. DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA presents images of the eight surviving "Lohan" statues--remnants of one of the most renowned works of Eastern art, as well as "The Torch of Precious Jewels-a Sadhana of the Buddha and Sixteen Arhats" by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche.
"DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA is a treasure of Buddhist art, history and wisdom. These centuries-old rare images, with expressions as realistic as if we were in the very presence of the living sages in their true states of being, nourish our hearts with blessings of peace, joy and power" --Tulku Thondup.
"This book brings us images which "are expressions of nonverbal experience that the artist had in the state of arahthood...We could say these images present the particular realization of Buddha's sanity in his disciples."
--Chogyam Trungpa.
Newman, founder and president of the World Health Foundation and Medigrace, Inc., has written an unusual and highly engaging text on eight famous statues of the Lohans, principal disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha. The book includes not only plates depicting each of these highly distinctive works of art but also historical backgrounds, reflections by Chogyam Trungpa as well as Newman himself, and a translation of a Tibetan Buddhist text dealing with these and other legendary Buddhist teachers. Pleasing to the eye as well as the mind, this is highly recommended where there is a strong interest in Buddhism or Eastern arts.
by Robert Newman (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Disciples-Buddha-Living-Images-Meditation/dp/1887276211
Cultural Writing. Religion & Spirituality. Art. Asian Studies. Introduction by Chogyam Trungpa. DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA presents images of the eight surviving "Lohan" statues--remnants of one of the most renowned works of Eastern art, as well as "The Torch of Precious Jewels-a Sadhana of the Buddha and Sixteen Arhats" by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche.
"DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA is a treasure of Buddhist art, history and wisdom. These centuries-old rare images, with expressions as realistic as if we were in the very presence of the living sages in their true states of being, nourish our hearts with blessings of peace, joy and power" --Tulku Thondup.
"This book brings us images which "are expressions of nonverbal experience that the artist had in the state of arahthood...We could say these images present the particular realization of Buddha's sanity in his disciples."
--Chogyam Trungpa.
Newman, founder and president of the World Health Foundation and Medigrace, Inc., has written an unusual and highly engaging text on eight famous statues of the Lohans, principal disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha. The book includes not only plates depicting each of these highly distinctive works of art but also historical backgrounds, reflections by Chogyam Trungpa as well as Newman himself, and a translation of a Tibetan Buddhist text dealing with these and other legendary Buddhist teachers. Pleasing to the eye as well as the mind, this is highly recommended where there is a strong interest in Buddhism or Eastern arts.
(c) 2016 Robert Bruce Newman