Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer

ISBN 10: 1481534599 ISBN 13: 9781481534598

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2015

Synopsis

[*Read by the author - Eva M. Selhub]

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.

Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth: health, happiness, and strength are often a direct result of the affirmative choices we make, regardless of whatever genetic or environmental setbacks we face. When our bodies get sick, we often feel out of control -- a cycle of fear that leaves us feeling vulnerable and helpless, desperate for medication or tests that will make us well. But illness shouldn't make us afraid. We do have control over our well-being, contends Dr. Selhub, and we can make choices that can positively influence any health issue, big or small, acute or chronic. It's all about perception -- how you view yourself, your resources, and your circumstances. Drawing on findings in the emerging field of epigenetics, she reveals how we can bolster the mind-body connection and actually change the way our DNA operates.

In Your Health Destiny, Dr. Selhub teaches you how to pay attention to your body's signals, to understand what these signals mean, and to make the right choices that will bring amazing results to your health, now and for the future. You will discover ways to prevent disease from happening or getting worse, and even find that you can reverse the disease process all together.

We have more power than we think. Your Health Destiny shows you how to harness it to improve your life.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

From a board-certified internist and lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School comes a scientifically proven mind-body prescription that will help you prevent disease, bounce back from illness, and manage life's ups and downs—all while achieving a greater sense of well-being, now and for the rest of your life.

There's no way around it: the human body is designed to get sick. Illness is the body's way of calling attention to a bigger problem. Aches and pains—whether annoying or debilitating, acute or chronic—mean that something's out of balance. What they don't mean is that you're not in control. Because your body takes its cues from your thoughts and emotions—and not the other way around—you can take control of your health, rather than letting your health take control of you. In Your Health Destiny, Dr. Eva Selhub shows you how.

After treating thousands of patients with a myriad of health problems—from heart disease and cancer to depression and anxiety—Dr. Selhub discovered that simple and easy-to-implement shifts in lifestyle, attitude, and overall approach to stress not only reduce your reliance on conventional medicine but, more important, prevent and reverse all types of disease before they can take root. Bringing together timeless Eastern practices with cutting-edge Western research, Dr. Selhub teaches you how to tap into the powerful connection between your mind and body, and, in the process, jump-start your body's built-in healing capabilities.

Proactive and prescriptive, this revolutionary program puts the power of health back into your hands, now and for the rest of your life.

About the Author:

Eva M. Selhub, MD, is an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a clinical associate of the Benson Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She is board certified in internal medicine and trained in Eastern medical practices. She has an integrative medicine practice and she also coaches clients in resiliency and stress management. Dr. Selhub is a motivational speaker, teacher, and trainer and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, China, and Israel. Dr. Selhub is also the author of The Love Response and has been published in medical journals and featured in national publications, and is a media spokesperson.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1481534599
• ISBN 13: 9781481534598
• Binding: Audio CD