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

Selhub, Eva, M.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006232778X ISBN 13: 9780062327789

Publisher: HarperOne, 2015

Synopsis

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 wellbeing, 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.

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Review:

“Your Health Destiny combines timeless spiritual guidance with the latest medical research on what’s best for our bodies and minds, giving you the power to transform your life.” (Deepak Chopra)

“We have a tendency these days of giving our health over to our genes and other factors beyond our control. The key insight of Your Health Destiny is that our health is not fixed, but can be constructed by the decisions and choices we confront every day.” (Larry Dossey, MD, Author of Reinventing Medicine and One Mind)

“Your health is indeed your destiny! You control it with your attitudes, habits and activities. At least 85% of all diseases are results of your choices. Choose wisely from the many great prescriptions in this important book.” (C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., Founder and CEO, National Institute of Holistic Medicine, Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association)

“Your Health Destiny awakens us from our misguided passive reliance upon pharmaceutical remedies that so often fall short. Selhub’s empowering text will transform your perspective, providing the tools to actively and fundamentally change your destiny as it relates to health, disease resistance, and longevity.” (David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author of Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers)

“Your Health Destiny presents clear and practical guidance on not only how to face one’s stressors but how to overcome them as well. Dr Eva Selhub skillfully illustrates how to nourish and find balance between one’s physical, mental and spiritual well-being.” (Bardor Tulku Rinpoche, author of Living in Compassion)

“Dr. Eva has provided an essential guidebook for maintaining optimum health. Dr. Selhub provides education, encouragement, and inspiration that reveals an entirely new way of practicing medicine, yet maintains many elements of ancient wisdom traditions.” (Dr. Steven Farmer, author of Healing Ancestral Karma, Earth Magic, and Sacred Ceremony)

“I highly recommend this book to help change behavior and develop the techniques to get the most of your life while defeating stress. All this comes through knowledge and you practicing her simple method of changing your present to brighten your future.” (John J. Ratey, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School)

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 this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 006232778X
• ISBN 13: 9780062327789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256