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Summary: Practical book . . .
Review: As far as self-help books go, this one is practical, informative, and easy to read. Joan Borysenko, I believe, is good at her craft, and gets her ideas across well.This is a book that is based on the belief that the mind can help heal the body. There's physical exercises and stretches to relieve tenstion and anxiety, there's deep breathing instructions to initiate the relaxation response, meditation to calm the mind and expand the soul, and there's even a psychological evaltional of questions and answers to guide you in your stress, anxiety, and depression levels, which may be contributing to your physical illness. Joan Borysenko presents her knowledge in a straight-forward, down-to-earth way that makes the reader sit up and listen. Truly a helpful book to anyone who has a phycial illness, and wants to help the mind heal the body.
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Summary: Your thoughts should work with you, not against you!
Review: I read this book at a very low point in my life, with depression and a variety of physical symptoms related to anxiety. This practical, straightforward book helped me gain some control of racing, negative thoughts (Borysenko calls this type of thinking "awfulizing"). Borysenko's rationale includes the fact that your body can actually help your mind to calm down. She provides simple, gentle stretching/breathing to help this happen. For me, it was most valuable to realize that even if my thoughts/intellect seemed beyond my control, my physiology is the same as all humans. Therefore, breathing/stretching has to affect my body/mind the same way as it does other humans. I kept the book on hand for bad moments, and I found that using the exercises helped me to bypass the downward spiraling thoughts and begin to get centered. She includes theory, psychology, and spirituality which supports the intellect as well. I still needed help after I found this book, but it absolutely put me on a safer, stronger path. I have loaned this book several times, to others in need. There are so many books out there, it's overwhelming. This one is worth it.
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Summary: Not the same as the book, this is fluff !!
Review: I was very disappointed with the lack of practical and theoretical content of this audio book. A friend recommended the book, but I'm not very good at reading self-help books tho I'm an avid reader, thus the audio seemed a good solution.... Was I ever wrong! This was an hour of fly-by preaching, skimming the surface so lightly that it angered me, it wasted my money and my time.
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Summary: Simple, But Big Solutions
Review: If you're stressed out or overwhelmed, I highly recommend this book. It gives you simple, workable solutions that make a HUGE difference. Only criticism is that parts of it are a bit too "new age-y", but overall, it's very good.
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Summary: Simple, But Big Solutions
Review: If you're stressed out or overwhelmed, I highly recommend this book. It gives you simple, workable solutions that make a HUGE difference. Only criticism is that parts of it are a bit too "new age-y", but overall, it's very good.
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Summary: knowledgable integration of medicine, psychology and spirit
Review: These are excellenct introductory lectures on theory and practice of healing. Joan Borysenko has the rare knowledge of mulitple fields: medicine, psychology and spiritual teachings. the lectures are an introduction to an integration of these three. Borysenko also reminds us of simple healing things: creativity, beauty, meditation and prayer.
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Summary: This book makes you think!
Review: When I first starting reading this book, I was like "thats my book, thats my life that she is writing about" I loved her writing and examples and stories that she told from other people's experiences. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in people's behaviors and everyday life.
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Summary: This book makes you think!
Review: When I first starting reading this book, I was like "thats my book, thats my life that she is writing about" I loved her writing and examples and stories that she told from other people's experiences. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in people's behaviors and everyday life.
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