Chronic Pleasure

Chronic Pleasure
Author: Karen Lorre
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1642795127

Chronic Pleasure helps readers who are overwhelmed easily, incessantly fatigued, and constantly in pain by providing them with the tools to feel vibrant, more energized, and happier. After struggling with chronic pain and incessant fatigue, Karen Lorre used her knowledge of the Law of Attraction and the mind-body connection to live with vibrant, youthful energy, and a tranquil mind. In Chronic Pleasure, Karen covers all the steps she discovered that allow her life to be easier, richer, happier, more intuitive, and more fun. She helps readers discover the secrets to wake up feeling good and keep feeling good all day by showing them the “missing piece” that gives boundless energy and relief from pain. Chronic Pleasure is for those who are ready to tap into the vibrant energy and chronic pleasure that one’s body and emotions crave.

Undo It!

Undo It!
Author: Dean Ornish, M.D.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0525480021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • By the pioneer of lifestyle medicine, a simple, scientifically program proven to often reverse the progression of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level! Long rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report, Dr. Ornish’s Program is now covered by Medicare when offered virtually at home. Dean Ornish, M.D., has directed revolutionary research proving, for the first time, that lifestyle changes can often reverse—undo!—the progression of many of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level. Medicare and many insurance companies now cover Dr. Ornish’s lifestyle medicine program for reversing chronic disease because it consistently achieves bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported—based on forty years of research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Now, in this landmark book, he and Anne Ornish present a simple yet powerful new unifying theory explaining why these same lifestyle changes can reverse so many different chronic diseases and how quickly these benefits occur. They describe what it is, why it works, and how you can do it: • Eat well: a whole foods, plant-based diet naturally low in fat and sugar and high in flavor. The “Ornish diet” has been rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report for eleven years since 2011. • Move more: moderate exercise such as walking • Stress less: including meditation and gentle yoga practices • Love more: how love and intimacy transform loneliness into healing With seventy recipes, easy-to-follow meal plans, tips for stocking your kitchen and eating out, recommended exercises, stress-reduction advice, and inspiring patient stories of life-transforming benefits—for example, several people improved so much after only nine weeks they were able to avoid a heart transplant—Undo It! empowers readers with new hope and new choices. Praise for Undo It! “The Ornishes’ work is elegant and simple and deserving of a Nobel Prize, since it can change the world!”—Richard Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States “If you want to see what medicine will be like ten years from now, read this book today.”—Rita F. Redberg, M.D., editor in chief, JAMA Internal Medicine “This is one of the most important books on health ever written.”—John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business
Author: Vivian Gornick
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0374716609

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2020. One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life I sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading—and re-reading—as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, assesses womanhood in Colette’s The Vagabond and The Shackle, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover. She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowen’s prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, “a writer whose work has often made me love life more.” After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessing’s Particularly Cats. Guided by Gornick’s trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literature’s power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who “still read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.”

The Sudist Way

The Sudist Way
Author: Pierre Dalcourt
Publisher: Sudist Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-06-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1777240409

Do you suffer from depression, anxiety, irritability, headaches, or chronic pain, or know someone who does? Do you wonder why, despite your best efforts, you have not achieved the lasting happiness you long for? Drawing from over 500 sources, including medical experts, psychologists, and numerous studies, The Sudist Way explores why we struggle with physical and emotional aches, why lasting happiness seems to always slip out of our grasp, and what we can do differently to achieve the most fulfilling, meaningful life possible. Gain crucial, evidence-based insights on many aspects of daily life, including: • The hidden dangers of seeking pleasure and happiness at all cost • Why all pleasant experiences fade away, no matter how hard we try to make them last • Why we’re often wrong about who is truly happy and who isn’t • The heavy price we pay for using painkillers and psychiatric medications • The powerful, hidden connection between pleasure, joy, pain, and suffering • Why the idea of “everything in moderation” is wrong • The root causes of the worldwide obesity epidemic and the best way to solve our weight problems • Why we should willingly take our daily dose of pain and suffering • A comprehensive chart of all pleasant and unpleasant sensations we have the capacity to experience • Powerful, natural lifestyle strategies for beating depression, anxiety, and chronic pain without medication—even if these problems have resisted all other forms of treatment.

Chronic City

Chronic City
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385532156

A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancée, Janice Trumbull, who is trapped on a circling Space Station. A chance encounter collides Chase with Perkus Tooth, a wily pop culture guru with a vicious conspiratorial streak and the best marijuana in town. Despite their disparate backgrounds and trajectories Chase and Perkus discover they have a lot in common, including a cast of friends from all walks of life in Manhattan. Together and separately they attempt to define the indefinable, and enter into a quest for the most elusive of things: truth and authenticity in a city where everything has a price. "Full of dark humor and dazzling writing" --Entertainment Weekly

Effortless Enchantment

Effortless Enchantment
Author: Karen Lorre
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781950367719

Have you ever noticed that there are those people who shine so much that no one can help but think they are special?What is that magical energy that somehow lights them up from the inside? How do they harness that magic and use it to create the lives of their dreams - even when they don't realize they have it?And what happens when they lose their magic? Can they ever get it back?That's what happened to Karen Lorre.The Playboy Playmate and One Life to Live star had unknowingly let the universe guide her most of her life - until a dear ex-boyfriend killed himself, her father died, and she became embroiled in a lawsuit against a pedophilic youth minister.All this happened when Karen was newly married to the man of her dreams, an incredible, romantic, brilliant man.She went from being the happiest wife to being divorced, devastated, alone, missing her husband with all her heart, and unable to work, function well, or stay awake.She had devoted herself to her acting career and to her now ex-husband, but she had lost it all.Though she was in such despair, that small voice within urged her to find her way back to her own special magic, even when all she craved was oblivion.Karen invites you on an inspiring journey through adventures, extravagant experiences, insights, and chance meetings that reminded her to reconnect with who she really is, to tap into her special magic in a whole new way, and to cause that small voice within her to boom louder than anything else. Let her stories inspire you to reconnect with your own magic in a whole new way, too. Get ready for new adventures!

Pain Free

Pain Free
Author: Pete Egoscue
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-06-25
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0804152640

Starting today, you don't have to live in pain. “This book is extraordinary, and I am thrilled to recommend it to anyone who’s interested in dramatically increasing the quality of their physical health.”—Tony Robbins That is the revolutionary message of this breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy. Developed by Pete Egoscue, a nationally renowned physiologist and sports injury consultant to some of today’s top athletes, the Egoscue Method has an astounding 95 percent success rate. The key is a series of gentle exercises and carefully constructed stretches called E-cises. Inside you’ll find detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions for dozens of e-cizes specifically designed to provide quick and lasting relief of: • Lower back pain, hip problems, sciatica, and bad knees • Carpal tunnel syndrome and even some forms of arthritis • Migraines and other headaches, stiff neck, fatigue, sinus problems, vertigo, and TMJ • Shin splints, varicose veins, sprained or weak ankles, and many foot ailments • Bursitis, tendinitis, and rotator cuff problems Plus special preventive programs for maintaining health through the entire body. With this book in hand, you’re on your way to regaining the greatest gift of all: a pain-free body!

The Seven Sources of Pleasure in Life

The Seven Sources of Pleasure in Life
Author: Luciano L'Abate
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0313395802

This book examines a seemingly simple and absolutely essential topic: learning how to enjoy every aspect of your life on a daily basis. All of us look for happiness, well-being, and positivity throughout our lives, but for most people these goals are abstract and the processes established to achieve them ambiguous. The Seven Sources of Pleasure in Life: Making Way for the Upside in the Midst of Modern Demands focuses attention upon the concrete, specific, and everyday sources of pleasure that are within the grasp of almost everyone. Prolific author Luciano L'Abate, PhD, ABEPP, examines at all kinds of pleasures, investigating where we find them, why they appeal to us, and what benefits they provide in terms of both mental and physical health. He explains how to increase our sensitivity to everyday opportunities for pleasure, and then gives tangible techniques to focus upon these moments in order to fully experience them. The author employs personal memories from his childhood in Italy, more recent stories from his travels abroad, and the findings of most recent scientific research on the benefits of pleasure-seeking to further illustrate his points.

Addiction and Weakness of Will

Addiction and Weakness of Will
Author: Lubomira Radoilska
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-11-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0191006866

The way in which society views addiction underlies how it treats, understands, blames, or even punishes those with addictive behaviours. This thought-provoking new book presents an original philosophical analysis bringing together addiction and weakness of will. Within the book, the author develops an integrated account of these two phenomena, rooted in a classical conception of akrasia as valuing without intending and at the same time intending without valuing. This fascinating and suggestive account addresses a number of paradoxes faced by current thinking about addiction and weakness of will, in particular the significance of control and intention for responsible action. Addiction and Weakness of Will makes an original contribution to central issues in moral psychology and philosophy of action, including the relationship between responsibility and intentional agency, and the nature and scope of moral appraisal. The book is valuable for philosophers, ethicists and psychiatrists with an interest in philosophy.