The Secret of Resilience

Restore resilience at its developmental source through energy medicine When neuroscientist Stephanie Mines started practising the hands-on healing art of Jin Shin, she began to unravel the mystery of trauma and the secret to resilience. As a survivor of early childhood abuse, police brutality as a social justice activist, and a series of dysfunctional and abusive relationships, Mines was profoundly curious about how the human nervous system finds resilience despite the cumulative burden of chronic stress and traumatic life events. While earning her doctorate in neuropsychology, she met Mary Iino Burmeister, master of the art of Jin Shin, through one of Mary’s first American students, Pamela Markarian Smith, founder of the Jin Shin Institute. Jin Shin consists of non-invasive touch, using the fingertips, on sites of the body that are similar to acupuncture points. After Jin Shin helped Mines resolve her own trauma and awaken her innate resilience, she began to incorporate it into her clinical research. She discovered that the Jin Shin sites correlate with the Chinese Extraordinary Meridians or Rivers of Splendor, which develop prenatally. She then began investigating our earliest neuro­developmental processes and was able to correlate the Jin Shin sites with specific embryological events. She found that subtle touch on these sites in combination with trauma resolution amplifies neuroresilience, enhances creativity, restores motivation, and heals the fragmentation and disconnection associated with trauma and shock. Sharing her personal journey as a wounded healer, Mines reveals not only how to unlock the secrets of resilience for individual healing but also how embodied resilience will help us heal our wounded planet.

Stephanie Mines, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in neuropsychology at the Union Institute. She is the founder of The TARA Approach, a nonprofit dedicated to providing sustainable health options to individuals and communities, and the founder of Climate Change and Consciousness (CCC), a global network to accelerate regenerative responses to the climate crisis. She is the author of 5 books, including We Are All in Shock.

Foreword by Cherionna Menzam-Sills, Ph.D. INTRODUCTION Remembering the Future 1 Stepping onto the Path of the Wounded Healer 2 Resilience and the Discovery of Original Brilliance 3 The Way of the Great Physician: Transmuting Poison to Medicine 4 Beyond Epigenetics 5 All Rivers of Splendor Flow to the Sea 6 What Are the Rivers of Splendor? 7 Elemental Gateways and the Unified Field of Consciousness 8 Regenerative Health for a Climate-Changing World 9 Your Resilient Embryogenesis Abbreviated Directory of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Landmarks 10 The Secret of Resilience AFTERWORD The Perspective of an Indigenous Taoist by Spring Cheng, Ph.D. Glossary Bibliography Index