Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
UPDATED on 5/9/2013 – based on Sondra’s e-mail to me on 5/9/2013
Sondra’s Voice on 5/9
I was SHOCKED and ecstatic to discover that the book hit #1 Amazon best seller among cell biology books. It was also in the top 100 of “new thought” books.
Thank you so much for helping it get there. If you already purchased a book, please take the time to write a review at Amazon, GoodReads, Sounds True, wherever you enjoy reading about books.
If you haven’t yet received a copy, here’s an opportunity to win a free copy.
As mentioned last time, Tami Simon, founder and publisher of Sounds True, interviewed me recently for her Insights at the Edge series -Part 1: YOUR CELLS ARE LISTENING. If you’d like a candid look at my current and controversial interpretation of our cells’ intelligence, please listen. You can also read the transcript of the interview. You may even discover for yourself, what your cells know to help you thrive.
Part two of the interview is now out. It was fun to do. You can download a file, read the transcript, enjoy!
I’m keeping this short and to the point. You’ve helped make the book reach one goal – it can now be called an Amazon best-seller. However an even bigger goal is to share the helpful information inside the book to folks who can use it – healers, people challenged by illness, stress, spiritual seekers, thinkers and tinkerers.
To that end, I am once again ‘out in the world’ doing book signings (July, August), workshops (August), and talks (September-November). I’d like to offer experential programs also to children so if you have any ideas or leads for that possibility, please let me know.
We’re also working on radio interviews and other media outreach. What I am discovering – it’s as much work, if not more, promoting the book as it was to write it. It is not so much just about the book, it’s what’s inside. Just like you and me, it’s what’s inside that is the most important to other people.
Stretch Your Self
One of the core themes in Secrets of Your Cells is the fact that tensions and stresses on our cells’ inner matrix influence their actions and health. When we extrapolate what has been learned by science about this structure of our cells, we find that it is a place where yoga, walking, stretching, dancing, singing, qigong, can have their beneficial effects.
A profound scientific discovery, first by Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, showed that stretching and releasing tensions by the cell affects genetic expression. In other words, the simple practice of contracting and releasing physical tensions reverberates to our tiniest cells and even to our invisible consciousness.
Take your cells for a walk. They will show their thanks in many ways.
Most promising forthcoming book by my friend, another University of California, Berkeley Alumna, Sondra Barett, PhD
Her acclaimed gift in Photography adorns the Cover Page of our forthcoming e-Book on Genomics, scroll down for the second image by Sondra Barett, PhD
Sondra’s Voice:
I’m writing to tell you about a forthcoming book, Secrets of Your Cells: Discovering
Your Body’s Inner Intelligence (Sounds True, on sale May 1, 2013) by Sondra Barrett,
PhD, biochemist, mind-body medicine teacher, and author.
About the book:
Secrets of Your Cells: Discovering Your Body’s Inner Intelligence puts cutting-edge
biology into practice for healing body, mind, and spirit. Bringing together a powerful
synthesis of easy-to understand science and ancient wisdom
traditions, “Secrets” offers a compelling and controversial new
look at our cells as our hidden teachers.
Researching children’s cancers brought medical scientist Sondra
Barrett, PhD into real life issues of families suffering, life, and
death. It also catapulted her into a spiritual quest to discover
more about healing.
In Secrets of Your Cells, Dr. Barrett takes an expansive
approach to our cellular universe. As she moves from our
molecular creation, she frames our cells’ roles in human health
and culture in a completely new and fresh way. By exploring the
development, design, and intelligence of human cells and working with people with lifethreatening
illnesses, Dr. Barrett became intrigued that perhaps the inner life of our cells
could add value to our own personal lives.
Beyond their biochemical abilities and knowledge for living, listening and thriving, our
cells carry powerful intelligence to assist us in letting go, diminishing stress and finding
deeper meaning in life.
• What can cells teach us about letting go that may influence genetic expression?
• What 5 things do our cells reveal about thriving physically and spiritually?
• What and where is cellular intelligence?
Willingly embracing the deep-rooted conflict between science and spirituality, Dr. Barrett
offers new controversial ideas that ancient sacred traditions may, in fact, have roots in
our cells and molecules. By searching for the sacred within our cells we might well find
the divine within ourselves.
One tip from your cells: Remembering gratitude with your heart, senses and mind of
your cells brings peacefulness to all of you.
For fans of Dr. Bruce Lipton (Biology of Belief) or Dr. Candace Pert (Molecules of
Emotion), Dr. Barrett’s provocative ideas and practical strategies will further inspire and
educate them.
Author’s BIO
Sondra Barrett, PhD, is a medical scientist and teacher with a degree in biochemistry
from the University of Illinois Medical School followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in
immunology and hematology at the University of California Medical School (UCSF). She
was on the faculty at UCSF for a decade engaged in basic cancer research, which led
her to bridge medical science and healing strategies for children and adults with lifethreatening
illnesses.
She has delivered programs throughout the United States as well as for University of
California, California Pacific Medical Center, Sonoma State, Apple Computer, Esalen,
California Institute of Integral Studies and numerous institutions throughout the Bay
Area. An award-winning photographer and long-time student of qigong and shamanism,
Sondra also explores the inner world of wine and our senses and is the author of book
Wine’s Hidden Beauty.
Book Title: SECRETS OF YOUR CELLS: Discovering Your Body’s Inner Intelligence
Author: Sondra Barrett, PhD
ISBN: 978-1-60407-626-4
ebook ISBN: 978-1-60407-819-0
Publication date: May 1, 2013
Publisher: Sounds True
Books are available online at Sounds True, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Indie Books
and bookstores.
Additional Links
Online Interviews – “Insights at the Edge” – Sounds True publisher Tami Simon
Part 1 Your Cells are listening.
PART 2: Your Cells are listening. (Imagery, genetic expression, sacred symbols in our
cells
Press Room
Author’s website:
PRESS CONTACT: Wendy Gardner, WendyG@soundstrue.com,
303.665.3151 x114
CONTACT:
Sondra Barrett 707-799-0833
sondra@sondrabarrett.com
3171 Ross Rd. #305, Graton, CA 95444
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