The Book of Stress Survival |
Alix Kirsta - ISBN 0-04-132022-0 |
Publisher's Note |
A most useful and comprehensive reference work on stress management. Not only does it examine the causes and effects of stress, it also shows how to pinpoint and reduce the stress in your life. With clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations, the book takes you through meditation and relaxation exercises to yoga and massage – essential skills for developing a stress-free lifestyle. |
Willie's Impression |
Almost a workbook – some very helpful hints on how to calm down. |
Your Life is in Your Hands |
Krishnan Chopra - ISBN 1-86204-500-3 |
Publisher's Note |
In this life-changing book Krishan Chopra draws upon his vast medical expertise and the wisdom of ancient India to offer us practical advice on how to restore your mind, body and spirit to harmony, including guidance on the epidemic of stress in today’s world and how to counter it; ways in which an improved lifestyle can guard against such conditions as heart disease and cancer; the benefits of the right diet for a longer life; the immense powers of positive thinking, meditation an d prayer and how to add a spiritual dimension to our everyday lives. Dr. Chopra draws upon the family wisdom that has inspired his son, the health-writer Deepak Chopra. He illustrates his discussion with a wealth of anecdotes vibrant with the richness and grounded in modern science. |
Willie's Impression |
A large book of anecdotes and insights into how our health and happiness is really up to us. Can be read in bits and pieces. |
Heal Your Body |
Louise L. Hay - ISBN 1-870845-04-08 |
Publisher's Note |
Heal Your Body will awaken within you the ability to contribute to your own healing process. In clear, resonant language, Louise Hay shows us how to become whole and healthy, how we can balance the body, mind and spirit and take good care of our bodies. She tells us how we can have a positive mental attitude about ourselves and about life. This, balanced with a strong spiritual connection, will give us joy in living. The book does not ‘heal’ anyone itself! No doctor, nor health practitioner can help us unless we choose to take part in our healing process. This little book shows us how. |
Willie's Impression |
Short and to the point – again, how our health and happiness is in our own hands. Very accessible and simple. |
Depression - An Emotion not a Disease |
Michael Corry & Aine Tubridy - ISBN 1-856354-79-2 |
Publisher's Note |
Drs. Michael Corry and Aine Tubridy present a revolutionary new perspective in which they assert that depression is an emotion, just like fear, anger or love, that can be consciously influenced, rather than a disease which can only be suffered. This new theory has enormous implications for the traditional treatment of depression. It puts the sufferer back at the centre of a more individual and tailored approach to healing and raises serious questions about the medical community’s focus on medication as a primary treatment. The book speaks both to those experiencing depression and to their families and aims to offer hope and understanding, equip sufferers with the resources to buffer them against future setbacks, end the cycle of relapse and re-medicate and provide ways to create a new identity for the sufferer, rooted in self-acceptance and empowerment. |
Willie's Impression |
Here’s a book that explores an approach to the useless thoughts that depression really is. Having worked with depressed clients, it can be a self-revelation to understand that their ‘disease’ is a software virus and there’s nothing wrong with their hardware! This book should be mandatory reading for the medical profession! |
Perfect Health |
Deepka Chopra - ISBN 0-553-81367-6 |
Publisher's Note |
Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact more like fires that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grow new stomach linings every five days, for instance; our skin is new every five weeks; each year, ninety-eight percent of the total number of atoms in our bodies is replaced. Ayurveda gives us the tools to intervene at this quantum level, where we are being created anew each day. It also reveals how freedom from sickness depends on contacting our own awareness, bringing it into balance and then extending that balance to the body. Perfect Health provides a complete step-by-step programme of mind-body medicine tailored to individual needs. A quiz identifies the reader’s mind-body type – it is the body type that forms the basis of a specific Ayurvedic programme of diet, stress reduction, neuromuscular integration, exercise, and daily routines. The result is a total health plan that will re-establish the body’s essential balance with nature, strengthen the mind-body connection and use the power of quantum healing to transcend the ordinary limitations of disease and aging. |
Willie's Impression |
Fusing molecular science and ancient Eastern mysticism, Chopra proposes an action plan for “Perfect Health” – can be heavy going but, in my view, Chopra’s always worth reading. |
Quantum Healing |
Deepak Chopra - ISBN 0553173324 |
Publisher's Note |
Here is an extraordinary new approach to healing – a book filled with the mystery, wonder and hope of people who have experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from cancer and other serious illnesses. Chopra began his search for answers when he saw patients in his own practice who completely recovered after being given only a few moths to live. In the mid-1980s he returned to India to explore Ayurveda, humanity’s most ancient healing tradition. Now he has brought together the current research of Western medicine, neuroscience and physics with the insights of Ayervedic theory to show that the human body is controlled by a “network of intelligence” grounded in quantum reality. Not a superficial psychological state, this intelligence lies deep enough to change the basic patterns that design our physiology – with the potential to defeat cancer, heart disease and even aging itself. In this inspiring and pioneering work, Chopra offers us both a fascinating intellectual journey and a deeply moving chronicle of hope and healing. |
Willie's Impression |
Again, Chopra blends modern and ancient science (Ayurvedic medicine) to encourage the reader to change one’s health and life. |