Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques - Softcover

Huddleston, Peggy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964575728 ISBN 13: 9780964575721

Publisher: Angel River Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book shows you how to use mind-body techniques to reduce anxiety, use 23 to 50 percent less pain medication, and heal faster. Documented by research, it is recommended at leading hospitals across the United States. It includes chapters about using relaxation and visualisation to reduce anxiety and speed healing. Feeling peaceful creates the biochemistry that speeds healing. The book is used with Peggy Huddlestons relaxation CD and Quick Start CD, which are bound into the book. Listen to the relaxation CD to reduce anxiety, stop headaches, and fall asleep if you have insomnia. A chapter explains how to use healing statements, words spoken during surgery that reduce the use of pain medication by 23 to 50 percent You also learn to talk to a part of your body to discover what emotions are stored in your body and how to release them to speed healing. Other chapters describe vitamins to enhance healing, how to prepare children for surgery, and how to lessen the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

About this title

About the Author

Peggy Huddleston developed five steps to prepare for surgery using mind-body techniques. Research shows her five steps reduce anxiety, lessen use of pain medication by 23 to 50 percent and speed healing. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, her writing and clinical work focus on the ways positive emotions and the human spirit enhance healing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Angel River Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964575728
• ISBN 13: 9780964575721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267