Awakening Your Heart

We need a new science, one that not just cares for the body or to the mind but to the two together, as inseparable parts of the person. The lack of information about emotional stress and the body means that medication is often prescribed in lieu of other treatments. Children and adults are given major medications for an array of syndromes and their symptoms such as chest pain, back aches, neck pain, weakness in limbs and upset stomachs, which can often be successfully treated without medication, particularly with early intervention.

The term most often used for integrative treatments that link the mind and the body is "holistic," a term too broad to be useful and one that often generates suspicion. There is a growing body of scientific evidence that what we consider physical symptoms and what we consider psychological symptoms are intertwined. The work of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, an emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts, on the effects of stress on the immune system, has helped bring attention to the need for a new approach that rejects the false dichotomy of mind and body.

Instinctively, we know that science is broken. Nearly a third of Americans use alternative therapies. It increasingly important to standardize those treatments and show whether and how they work. The Emotional Wellness Way to Cardiac Health ... is a beginning.

As long as health care in this country remains primarily pharmaceutically based, these problems will continue regardless of what program is being financed. Only by embracing an integrative medicine effort, which incorporates research that has been done in non-pharmaceutical and non-patentable medicine, and bringing this into our system of financing health care, will we help people get well and lower costs.

Live long and be well.


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A Physical and Mental Rebirth

This book has given me a lot. A whole hell of a lot. Foremost being the knowledge I need to repair and heal my heart. Smoking two and a half packs a day for 35 years left me with a shriveled and blackened pump and this book has given me the tips I require to repair it. God knows I never pictured myself a health nut, my weight topped 400 lbs by the time I turned 30, but this book gave me the spark needed to repair my ultimate valve. It seemes like every night I would find myself throwing back the last drops of a handle of popov, but this book HAS ALTERED MY DOME. So go out and get this book if you are really committed to cardiac health, youll be happy you did.

"I wish I was a headlight on a north-bound train
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain"

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