From Turmoil to Tranquility: A Step-By-Step Guide to Total Emotional Freedom - Softcover

Cooke, Cindy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971434611 ISBN 13: 9780971434615

Publisher: Sundance Communications Intl, 2002

Synopsis

Recently, neuroscientists discovered an innate mechanism in a part of the brain called the amygdala that actually dissolves emotional trauma - if you let it. The actual breakup of old emotional memories can be clearly seen with a sophisticated brain imaging technique called functional Magnetic Resource Imaging (fMRI). So, why isn't this process - the process of homeostasis in which all things tend to return to a state of health and well being - why isn't it working for you and other Americans, 48% of whom will experience a major emotional disorder at some time in their lives? Why, as only 5% of the world's population do we consume 50% of its cocaine? Why, despite 40 million prescriptions for psychotropic medications is the suicide rate not declining?

It is related to some of the basic beliefs underpinning industrial societies, beliefs that begain 500 years ago with Sir Isaac Newton, but have been proven incorrect by discoveries in quantum physics in the last 30 years. Primary among these beliefs is the idea that we are supposed to be in control and that if we think long enough, hard enough and rationally enough, we can solve our problems.

From Turmoil to Tranquility describes why these beliefs are in error, why thinking about your issues will not cure emotional distress any more than studying a specific germ will cure your cold. It explains why most of our treatments for emotional disorders don't work, why psychotropic medication is more often than not counterproductive, how our emotions try to heal themselves and how we inadvertently prevent them from doing so.

From Turmoil to Tranquility also explains how our life crises are related to emotional distress and provides detailed step-by-step procedures on how to stop trying to control our emotions and let mother nature do the job she was meant to do.

About this title

From the Publisher

This book is not only for those who suffer from emotional distress - though that is the primary audience - it is also for anyone who has a friend or loved one who experiences anxiety and depression and doesn't understand why. In simple, easy to grasp language, and using colorful examples, Cooke describes the implications of the most recent neuroscientific discoveries, explains how mother nature is designed to cure emotional distress as easily and quickly as it cures you from the common cold, how the emotional immune system gets damaged, and how to restore it to full health.

From the Author

Though trained in psychology, I suffered from emotional distress my entire life. None of the suggestions in other books - and I read them all - gave me anything more than temporary relief from anxiety, panic and obsessive thinking.

And then, quite accidentally, while on an extended trip to Russia, with no resources and no way to escape the fear in my head, the pain of my life imploded with extraordinary force. In the days and months that passed, I knew something extraordinary had happened. It was as if someone had thrown a thousand puzzle pieces into the air and it had come down in one piece. It was easy, simple, innate. But I, like so many others, had not seen it before. Blinded by the belief that I was responsible for controlling my emotions, I didn't know what they were for. But now I knew - and I knew how to dissolve them.

For the last decade I studied the latest neuroscientific research, poured over dismal statistics regarding therapy and psychotropic medications, unraveling the puzzle of why, in this nation of plenty, of resources and of science, so many of us suffer from emotional distress, and detailing exactly how to actually get permanent relief from anxiety and depression, exactly how to let go and allow the body to fix itself.

As I look back on that explosive moment it is as a different person. There are no terrors, no panic attacks, no anxiety. I sleep at night and even the life crises have disappeared. It was a paradigm shift so powerful and deep, it even now leaves me breathless. I have been teaching seminars for a number of years now, and, spurred forward by the success of seminar participants, I finally finished the book, and now offer it to you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sundance Communications Intl
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0971434611
• ISBN 13: 9780971434615
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224