The Good Heart:101 Ways to Live a Positively Long, Happy Life
Author(s): Austen Hayes (Author)
Publisher: OBooks
Publication Date: 28 Sept. 2012
Language: English
Print length: 109 pages
ISBN-10: 1780995253
ISBN-13: 9781780995250
Book Description
Rooted in positive psychology, focusing on cardiac prevention and recovery, The Good Heart: 101 Ways to Live A Positively Long, Happy Life helps readers replace depression, stress and anger with self-confidence, generosity and optimism. The book, with its 101 one- to two-page tips, written in easy-to-understand language by a well-respected expert in her field, targets the millions throughout the world who suffer from some form of diagnosed cardiovascular disease, as well as those dedicated to disease prevention. This formula for providing succinct, up-to-date research-based tips helps readers quickly absorb information on how to behave, feel and think, approaching heart health in a new way emphasizing more than exercise and diet with changed attitude as the key to prevention and recovery. Combining information gathered from 30 years experience in cardiac psychology, hundreds of cardiac studies, and the most recent findings of both cognitive and positive-psychology literature, The Good Heart will change lives.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The Good Heart is a great book that will give you practical, easy-to-use pieces of daily wisdom to give balance and meaning to your life. It helps you reduce stress moment-to-moment. Clear, concise, and convincing, The Good Heart will be your daily companion. –Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D | Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, Author of ‘The Worry Cure’
Over the past years I have heard regularly from my patients how terrifically helpful you have been. I can now see why first hand. The Good Heart tips combine medicine, psychology and common sense into well written, easily digestible lessons. Instructive comments on dealing with the difficulties of cardiac disease, and helpful advice on preventive measures are expertly combined. –Russell Berdoff, M.D. | Cardiologist at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City
I underwent an open-heart, quintuple by-pass operation in December 2005. . . .Without qualification, I am convinced the treatment I received from Dr. Austen Hayes . . . was as beneficial to me in the long run as the physical treatment. Perhaps more so. . . . I found The Good Heart absorbing to read, and insightful. I see myself in several of the descriptive passages, and appreciate the prescriptions about easing my dilemmas. –Sanford Socolow | former CBS News Bureau Chief, Producer, 60 Minutes, Executive Producer, Cronkite Productions, Inc.
About the Author
Dr. Austen Hayes is a licensed clinical psychologist, educator and consultant. Since 1978 she has been helping others acquire skills and lifestyle practices vital to the realization of optimal health and well-being. As a cognitive-behavioral and health psychologist, Dr. Hayes is expert in understanding how patterns of thinking influence emotion and the effect emotion may have on physiological responding. Her methods reflect her belief that psychological health is more fully achieved when positive rather than negative characteristics are the point of focus.
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