The authors 15-year struggle with a then-inoperable brain tumor led to her discovery of the seedthoughts and core beliefs that link ones mind and body. In this book, Levine shows, via simple, nonmedical language and 53 self-help exercises, how one can use an illness as a vehicle for increased self-understanding and healing. nBarbara Levines struggle with a then-inoperatable brain tumor led her to discover seedthoughts and core beliefs that link ones mind and body. She traced common phrases like that breaks my heart and its a pain in the butt to underlying beliefs on which they are based and the symptoms they cause. The revise and updated edition clearly describes this mind/body language link.