FleetStreet Publications: The Essence of Self-Healing Category:  Health/Wellness Publisher: FleetStreet Publications ISBN-10:  0970044402 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 262 Copyright: Jan 1 2000 The Essence of Self-Healing: How to bring health and happiness into your life is unique in its simplicity and clarity. Written with warmth, charm and profound insights, it delivers an invigorating and empowering understanding of the links between you, your thoughts, your beliefs, and your health. The Essence of Self-Healing gives you step-by-step instructions, easy-to use techniques and exercises that can be simply adjusted to your own individual needs. This book is a gift that will change your life and everyone's around you, and will remind you of your own self-healing skills. Why self-healing? 98,000 Americans die every year by medical errors (National Academy of Sciences), and an estimated 106,000 Americans died in 1998 in hospitals from drug side effects (Journal of the American Medical Association), making the use of prescription drugs the third leading cause of death in the USA. A "natural product potent enough to help people will be potent enough to cause side effect" (Stephen Barrett, M.D., a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud). "Mounting evidence suggests that increasing number of Americans are falling seriously ill or even dying after taking dietary supplements that promise everything from extra energy to sounder sleep." The Washington Post, March 2000. Excerpt Although many books have been written on self-healing, very few seem to work for everyone. In many of these books, the terms used, the answers given, and the exercises recommended often complicate the subject, and bring or reinforce theories and concepts that are not necessarily so. Now is the time to address the ridiculousness of the present health-care situation, especially in the United States, where endless amounts of drugs, drug alternatives and natural solutions are widely available and constantly advertised, yet still millions of people continue to be in poor health. Health issues have become very complex, and yet we will see throughout this book that self-healing is simple. Two reasons clearly stand out as to why we do not heal: a lack of self-belief and a lack of knowledge. I decided to write The Essence of Self-Healing because I have seen over and over that self-healing works. I believe that it is time for a far greater number of people to have access to another point of view, a simpler one, that may further inspire them to look more deeply into themselves, and regain once again the realization and the belief of how truly amazing we really all are.

A primer on self-health and healthcare
"The Essence of Self-Healing will become a primer on self-health and health-care in America. Anyone who is seriously investigating means to improve our health care will find this book invaluable. Her emphasis on taking personal responsibility for our own health and a valid course of treatment should be welcomed by any health-care professional." ~ Dr. Bill Lanning, Houston, Texas

Trust your heartfelt instincts
"The Essence of Self-Healing strongly emphasizes the understanding of self-healing and shows you how to trust your heartfelt instincts in order to make better choices in a most powerful and natural way. This book is not your usual self-help book. It is interesting, enjoyable to read, and life enriching. It shows you how to create balance in your life in the most simple and invigorating ways possible. I was never overwhelmed and feel richly rewarded by the knowledge of achieving a happier, healthy lifestyle. ~ Jane Heid, Illinois.

An author who cares
“The text is so clearly and simply written that the reader at once feels at home with the author. This quality alone distinguishes it from the dozens of similar books written in pseudo-poetic prose. One gets the feeling that Petrene Soames is truly trying to communicate with the reader.” ~ Ted Maass, Phone Books – White Plains, NY