Book of the Week 3
Dr Vernon Coleman
Bodypower was my first international bestselling book. First published in 1983, it was a Sunday Times bestseller and it was published around the world. Numerous TV shows and radio programmes were made about it and the book itself was serialised for weeks in a number of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines. In the UK the book was serialised in the Sunday Mirror and the paper’s circulation soared as a result. Bodypower changed my life – not because it was successful but because it enabled me to share my thoughts about the body’s self-healing powers. In 1983 the philosophy behind Bodypower seemed new and slightly frightening to many people. Some thought it threatening, a few even suggested that it was heresy to suggest that in 90 per cent of all illnesses there was no need for a professional healer, that the body could look after itself perfectly well.
Today the philosophy described in Bodypower is widely accepted. It has not halted the march of modern interventionism but it has, perhaps, caused some of those who lead the march to break step. From the letters I have received I know that it has encouraged many to be prepared to take advantage of their bodies’ own healing processes and to regard illness as something to be conquered in partnership with the help of healers (whether orthodox or alternative) rather than as something to be handed over completely to the professionals.
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Copyright Vernon Coleman January 2026
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