Healing Heart Disease Naturally- Holistic Approach for Total Well-Being

About the Book Recent advances in the behavioral sciences have ensured that a variety of physical disorders can be healed using psychological techniques. Worldwide, mind-body healing is being increasingly used to treat chronic illnesses such as asthma, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and coronary artery disease with excellent results.

Healing Heart Disease Naturally reveals the personality trait that puts you at highest risk and how to change it, how to use self-hypnosis and imagery in healing your heart, how to stop smoking permanently with little or no discomfort, how to find meaning and joy in life, besides other practical techniques to reverse heart disease.

The book also outlines how to:

Avoid angioplasty and other surgery by reversing blockage in arteries.

Control cholesterol, high blood pressure and other risk factors. Lead a full life even after surgery, including a return to having safe sex.

Make lifestyle changes to reverse coronary disease.

Eat right to stay slim and healthy.

Exercise safely and be physically fit.

Plus many more insights and tried-and-tested techniques to prevent another heart attack.

About the Author Dr Dayal Mirchandani, MD, DPM, FIPS has been practising Behavioural Medicine and Psychiatry since 1981. He is Director, Behavioural Science Network and the co-founder and governing body member of the National Addiction Research Centre. He is the author of Super Performance Learning published by IBH 1999.

He was a Member of the Board of Studies of SNDT and Bombay Universities and on the Committee for the selection of teachers in Psychology at the Bombay University. He was honorary consultant at Gopikrishna Piramal Memorial Hospital. He is the co- author of Group therapy for Addiction and Preventing Drug Abuse a manual for teachers. He was invited by the United States Information Service (USIS) under the International Visitors Programme, 1990. He has conducted a large number of workshops and training programmes for companies, schools, colleges and social organisations.

Introduction Shyam Aggarwal, a 45-year-old businessman, woke up one morning with a constricting feeling in the chest. After a while, as the pain subsided, he passed it off as a bout of indigestion and went to work as usual. A few hours later his secretary found him collapsed over a cup of coffee, with a cigarette burning a hole through the papers on his desk.

Shyam was moved to a hospital where an ECG revealed a heart attack. A few weeks later a thoroughly shaken Shyam was back at work. He could not believe that he had a heart attack and was totally confused as to what he should do about it. His doctors advised him to have a bypass operation immediately or otherwise he could have another attack any moment.

Rather than being railroaded into surgery he called in a senior cardiologist for a second opinion who told him that as for now, medication would be enough. Later, if he required it, an angioplasty could be done. He decided to wait and learn more about heart disease by reading on the subject and talking to a doctor friend, who told him about the possibility of reversing his heart disease using a programme of diet, exercise and lifestyle changes. He gave him an article describing the Ornish programme. His cardiologist burst into laughter when Shyam broached the subject of reversing his heart disease with a programme of diet and exercise and said it was a waste of time.

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