Sound Mind Sound Body

In this dramatic new approach to understanding personal health Dr. Pelletier shows how lifelong good health is far more dependent on a positive purposeful life orientation than on aerobic workouts and rigid low-fat diets. He challenges the medical community's long-accepted focus on the disease model and proposes a positive new health paradigm.<P>Sound Mind Sound Body examines the lives of people who are rarely ill who manage aging successfully or who cope extremely well with both acute and chronic illness -- and describes how they do it. Among Dr. Pelletier's fascinating findings: <BR>-- People who overcome serious illness or physical trauma in childhood are often actually strengthened -- not debilitated -- by the experience.<BR>-- People who enjoy a sense of belonging and a real connection with others generally pass through periods of intense stress and remain untouched by illness.<BR>-- Altruistic work is closely related to the ability to overcome life-threatening crises and disease.<BR>-- There is a healthy way of being ill which can help a person manage such chronic problems as arthritis and heart disease.<P>In addition Sound Mind Sound Body offers practical effective techniques to help anyone achieve physical mental and emotional equilibrium and enjoy a lifetime of optimal health.