Dr. Bernie Siegel

When you visualize successful conception and pregnancy, your body doesn't know you're visualizing - it thinks it's really happening and prepares accordingly

Dr. Siegel describes how actors performing comedy scripts show improved immune function and lower stress hormones, while tragedy scripts create the opposite effect, demonstrating how mental rehearsal physically changes the body.

A nurse trying desperately to conceive became pregnant within two weeks after learning to visualize successful conception and eliminate anxiety during intercourse

Dr. Siegel personally counseled a nurse in his office who had been struggling to conceive. After teaching her to visualize pregnancy and expect success rather than approaching it as work, she conceived within two weeks.

You can communicate with your uterus through guided imagery to stop miscarriage, as demonstrated when a woman's labor stopped after meditation

Dr. Siegel describes helping a woman experiencing miscarriage by clearing negative energy from her hospital room and guiding her through meditation to communicate with her uterus. The labor stopped, and months later she gave birth to a healthy boy named Brady.

Feelings profoundly affect health - Monday mornings see more heart attacks, strokes, suicides and illnesses because of emotional state

Dr. Siegel cites medical statistics showing significantly higher rates of heart attacks, strokes, suicides, and general illnesses occurring on Monday mornings due to people's emotional resistance to returning to work.

The words you use to describe your fertility struggle reveal what else in your life needs to change for healing to occur

Dr. Siegel explains his diagnostic technique: when patients describe problems as 'draining,' 'roadblock,' or 'wearing me out,' he asks what else in their life fits that description. Many immediately recognize what needs to change without him telling them.

Deceiving people into health with hope dramatically improves outcomes, as seen with the HOPE protocol that outperformed standard treatments

Dr. Siegel describes a doctor who realized his study protocol spelled HOPE backwards and started giving patients hope instead. This doctor had statistically more patients respond to chemotherapy than all other doctors in the study.

When you look in the mirror and tell your body you love it, including your reproductive organs, miraculous healing can occur

Dr. Siegel shares the story of a woman whose cancer disappeared after she sat naked in front of a mirror telling each part of her body she loved it, going inch by inch, because she didn't want to die hating her body.

The stress of helplessness about not getting pregnant is worse than the actual fertility challenge itself

Dr. Siegel explains that when you fear not having a pregnancy, it becomes more likely to happen, but when someone helps you relax and laugh, pregnancy becomes more likely than not having it happen.