A standout, approachable self-improvement guide that emphasizes mental, spiritual, and physical integration.
Authors Rhoades and McDonald’s useful handbook offers actionable concepts, based on well-researched methods, as tools for improved health.
Rather than offer a new, gimmicky plan, the authors provide solid steps toward affecting positive personal change. Rhoades and McDonald first point to scientific approaches, such as the scientific method, placebo effect, and probability. They suggest that by using the scientific method of testing a hypothesis, a person can arrive at a conclusion that subverts the normal human tendency to face a setback and give up. Next, the guide delves into the connection between mental and physical health. Citing ample research in endnotes, the book presents a fresh perspective on self-empowerment that circumnavigates the world of prescriptions, quick fixes, and gimmicks. For example, the guide explores the way strong emotions can play a factor in creating irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and other conditions. The book also suggests forms of biofeedback practices, from meditation to relaxation exercises, to help readers discover the links between their systems of beliefs and their systems of bodily processes. Anyone who has ever started a new job, traveled to a foreign country, or encountered a similarly exciting yet stressful situation will notice physical changes like stomach discomfort, headache, or anxiety. The authors explain how to manage stress before it negatively affects mental and physical health and point to examples like Tibetan monks, who ”override” physical discomforts by changing their mindset. The book closes with home remedies for common ailments, such as peppermint, ginger, and salt—all shown to have healing properties. In sum, the book presents an unconventional, appealing approach to solving “problems” of busy 21st-century lifestyles, offering readers an actionable way to connect the mental, physical, and spiritual states and thrive.
A standout, approachable self-improvement guide that emphasizes mental, spiritual, and physical integration.Pub Date: Aug. 5, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4575-4147-6
Page Count: 367
Publisher: Dog Ear
Review Posted Online: Sept. 17, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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