Foreword
Preface

PART ONE: THE WORLD WITHIN
Your body has internal mechanisms which regulate the way you act and react
Anyone for tennis?; The choice is yours; The unconscious mind; Central eating control;
Breast is best; The rhythm and blues; The sex drive
There are mechanisms which enable you to adapt to changing demands
Adaptability; Your variable pump; Feeling on top of the world; What a nerve!;
Pink, brown and black; Muscle bound; Them bones, them bones; Feet made for walking;
The housemaid?s knee and the students?s elbow; Old blue eyes; The eyes have it
Your body can defend itself against serious threats
A bleeding wonder; Injury time; Dying for a drink; Fainting with purpose; Bedevilled kidneys;
Battle stations; Untapped potential; Blowing hot and cold; Safety margins; Tears with feeling
There are mechanisms to protect you against disease and infection
Hot but not bothered; Starve a fever; Spit and polish; A life-saving nuisance;
Up, up and away; Secret allies
Your body can develop self-protective symptoms
The importance of pain
There are even mechanisms to help you overrule inappropriate mechanisms!
The automatic aspirin; A labour-saving device; Cold comfort;
Mind over matter; The final dignity
And there are mechansism which lie half-forgotten and unused...
Show me the way to go home; Thanks for the memory; Second sight; Things aren?t what they seem;
The sixth sense; Sound sense; The sweet smell of success; The food of love; A natural Valium

PART TWO: INTERVENTION
- The interventionist approach
- Blinkers can impede your vision
- Doctors under the influence
- Preventative programmes are unimaginative and ineffective
- The hazards of interventionist medicine
- Modern medicine is less effective than you may think
- Patient easily become overdependent
- The hazards of drug therapy
- Your internal defences may be damaged
- An overemphasis on treatment
- Normal: An interventionist's myth?
- Alternative medicines: A real alternative or a variation on a theme?
- Home treatments
- Interventionist medicine: Conclusions
- Bodypower in perspective

PART THREE: THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF BODYPOWER
- You must understand that your body isn't designed for modern living
- Appreciate how your body's responses to pressure can produce illness
- Learn how you respond to pressure by being aware of your own personality
- You must create your own philosophy of Bodypower
- - Learn to listen to your body
- Your early warning systems
- - Learn to know your weak points
- - Danger signs
- Learn to relax your body
- Relax your body; Relax your mind; Let your emotions show; Take time out;
- Rocking chair therapy; Aggressive exercise
- It's all in the mind
- - Learn to appreciate the power of positive emotions
- The advantages of staying active

PART FOUR: BODYPOWER IN PRACTICE
- You can use Bodypower to help improve your shape and maintain your health
- - The fat of the land; For matchstick men and women;
- - More of a good thing; Keep young and beautiful
- You can use Bodypower to help you deal with specific symptoms and threats
- - Anxiety and depression; Waves of nausea; Eyes right; The dark enemy; Happy birth day;
- - If you can?t stand the heat...; A vein thought; Indigestion; Moving experiences;
- - A joint approach; Migraine; Pain control
- You can use Bodypower to help improve your lifestyle
- - Breaking bad habits; Enhanced serendipity; Sense and sensibility;
- - The sporting life; Smile and the world smiles with you
- And finally...
- - The end of the line

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