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Search - The Search for Wellness: A Holistic Approach to Stroke, Heart Disease, and Other Lifestyle-Related Conditions

The Search for Wellness A Holistic Approach to Stroke Heart Disease and Other LifestyleRelated Conditions
Author: Sean T. Hubbard

According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease?particularly heart disease and stroke?is the leading cause of death in the United States. Because stroke and heart disease are so closely related to unhealthy habits and choices of lifestyle, they are increasingly being referred to as ?lifestyle conditions.? These lifestyle cond... more »itions cause the greatest number of deaths and disabilities, thereby limiting the fulfillment of an enormous amount of human potential. Sean T. Hubbard, DO, a neurology specialist who works with stroke and heart attack victims on a daily basis and author of The Search for Wellness: A Holistic Approach to Stroke, Heart Disease, and Other Lifestyle-Related Conditions, is the first to admit that fad and quick-fix approaches seldom lead to the lasting effects necessary for healthy aging and personal maturity. ?The federal government has focused on educational programs to teach people about diet and exercise,? says Hubbard. ?Other programs are aimed at educating the public on risk factors and symptoms. Emotionally, everybody wants to be healthy. Intellectually, everybody knows what to do. What we need is ?empowerment??the spiritual capacity to make positive lifestyle changes.? Hubbard points out that traditional medical methods are aimed at decreasing the sudden manifestations of chronic blood vessel conditions, but they fall short of significantly altering the underlying chronic conditions. Furthermore, since these lifestyle conditions have developed as a result of years of plaque buildup, the key involves making new and healthier choices that lead to plaque meltdown and stimulate collateral circulation (the process of new blood vessel growth). In the case of his own patients who would suffer a first event and then go on to suffer yet another of the same type, he acknowledges that the first impulse is to think they don?t care, but they do care. They simply find it difficult to make meaningful changes in their lives. ?In my search for an approach that restores balance to the body and optimizes conditions,? explains Hubbard, ?I discovered a path to personal wellness. I realized this concept of care through my work with stroke and heart attack patients, sitting at the foot of their hospital beds, trying to gain an understanding of their modes of decision making. In response to the expressed needs of my patients, I have further defined wellness as a philosophy of principle-centered thinking and living through which empowerment is discovered, lifestyle conditions are overcome, and one?s greatness is realized.? The book describes how wellness expands the concept of care beyond the general principles of developing healthy habits to replace those that are considered unhealthy. Wellness is greater than alternative or preventive care for it emphasizes not only aging well, but the fulfillment of human potential and purpose. Wellness acknowledges humanity?s challenge: growing spiritually. This book will teach you: ~*~ How to overcome barriers to wellness ~*~ The importance of communing with the good in life ~*~ The significance of caregiving in obtaining spiritual growth ~*~ How objective reasoning can lead to empowerment ~*~ The spiritual capacity needed to make positive lifestyle changes

ISBN-13: 9780977779239
ISBN-10: 0977779238
Publication Date: 5/9/2006
Pages: 96
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Publisher: Neu Age Publishing Company
Book Type: Paperback
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