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Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What it Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-being
We all want to be healthy. In fact, in a recent national mega-study, declining health ranked as our greatest fear, far surpassing anxieties about finances, relationships, terrorism... or even spiders! Clearly it's our #1 priority. Yet, we've chosen to control our health by focusing almost exclusively on low fat diets, exercise programs, and trips to the doctor. As important as these are, we haven't tapped into our most powerful and available route to good health, what scientists refer to as the New Frontier - the thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors that create positive emotions. New research shows that they are a root cause of good health, high immune function, and better healing.
Why don't we capitalize on something we all possess? Because even though most of us believe in the health benefits of positive attitudes and behaviors, we haven't had a clear roadmap to access them.
Rick Foster and Greg Hicks, national best-selling authors of How We Choose to Be Happy, have spent over a decade studying happiness and its relationship to health through their research with The Mayo Clinic and hundreds of interviews. Along with Jen Seda, MD, a founding member of Mayo's Department of Integrative Medicine, Rick and Greg present their revolutionary system of 9 choices in Choosing Brilliant Health. The first practical guide to how anyone can create the positive emotions medically proven to make you healthier, they are truly breaking ground.
Having trained over 10,000 doctors, nurses, patients, and people from all walks of life, they've discovered that, when you follow the 9 choices, you live in a state they call "Brilliant Health." Brilliant Health is a deep feeling of vitality, wellbeing, and a sense that you've achieved the highest possible quality of life. You have a healthier body down to the cellular level, you have better brain function, you recover faster from illness and injury, your organ systems work better, and you can even look forward to a longer, and definitely better life.
Praise for Choosing Brilliant Health
Choosing Brilliant Health is simply wonderful. Better yet, this information can save your life...at the very least make it a lot more fun.
—Christiane Northrup, MD, author
Essential reading for anyone who seeks control of their life in pursuit of better health and happiness.
—Bernard Birnbaum, M.D., Vice Dean and Chief of Hospital Operations, New York University Medical Center.
This book is an absolute necessity for anyone who wants the roadmap for a healthy and happy life. It even taught this old dog a few new tricks. Bravo!
—Billy Goldberg, M.D.,
#1 NY Times bestselling author of Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Greg Hicks and Rick Foster have written a unique, important, and wonderful book for anyone, including anyone in healthcare, who instinctively knows that attitude is essential to healing and happiness but needs a roadmap. The tools are so simple and the authors have made them powerful by linking them to those who have thrived despite challenges.
—Elizabeth Summy, Executive Director,
American Society of Healthcare Risk Management
Choosing Brilliant Health shows us how to make very reality-based choices about personal health. This book is so basic, and with so much common sense, that it should be part of every elementary school curriculum. Not only is it grounded in the science gleaned from recent studies about mind-body medicine, but also in the real-life stories of diverse people from all over the world. Choosing Brilliant Health works!
—David Roche, author of The Church of 80% Sincerity
The brilliant choice is to read this book! Choosing Brilliant Health powerfully reveals that health is a verb, not just an office visit or medical treatment. The book is a wonderfully constructed guide for something already within each of us: intentionally chosen and actively lived mind, body, and spirit.
—Jody Hereford, (Fmr.) President, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
I love this book. It's lively, fun, and filled with optimism and possibility on every page. Foster and Hicks tie together brilliantly the body and the mind in a guide to chart our course to improved health. No matter what your present state of well being, it will be raised by reading this wonderful book. I think Choosing Brilliant Health has every type covered!
—Suzanne Brue, President, The Association for Psychological Type international (APTi), and author of The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You'll Never Quit!
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