Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster

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For some people, surgery is a simple matter of having something fixed, removing a bone spur or a benign cyst. If this is what you are facing, the mind-body techniques you'll learn here will help you go through routine surgery more easily and with greater comfort. And you'll recover faster. However, if you are facing major surgery, or a life-threatening condition, surgery can be frightening. The mind-body techniques you'll learn here will give you ways to cope with your fears and actually feel peaceful during the hours, days and weeks before your operation. In turn, your calmness will improve your surgical outcome. An impressive body of medical research documents that people who actively prepare for an operation have less pain, fewer complications and recover sooner. While most of this research had been buried in medical journals and reports, this book now makes it available to you. As a psychotherapist and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, my clinical work, research and studies have focused on how people can use their emotions, attitudes and human spirits to enhance the healing process. Over the past 18 years, I have taught workshops in self-healing techniques to more than 6,000 people in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, London, Paris and Amsterdam. Often in workshops someone will ask, "I am having surgery in a few weeks. What can I do to reduce my anxiety and make surgery less stressful? How can I have less pain and heal faster?" In response, I developed five steps to prepare people for surgery. They give you specific ways to feel more in control at a time you can often feel helpless and vulnerable. They are easy to use, cost you and the hospital nothing, and have no negative side effects. Using these techniques will help you feel calmer before surgery, have less pain after surgery, use less pain medication, recover faster, strengthen your immune system and save money on medical bills. Step 1: Relax to Feel Peaceful You will learn the skill of deep relaxation to reduce anxiety and feel calm. Using the audio cassette offered with the book, you will be guided through a process of relaxation. Feeling peaceful soothes your nervous system and strengthens your immune system. It also balances your endocrine and cardio-vascular systems, creating the complex biochemistry that enhances overall healing. In addition, if you have any stress-related symptoms, such as tension headaches, migraines, insomnia hypertension or anxiety, you'll find these symptoms diminishing or disappearing, depending on how well you master the technique of relaxation. Once relaxed you'll learn to surround yourself with love as a way to promote healing. Ground-breaking medical research reveals what you may have always known: We all feel better when our hearts are filled with love and we heal better too. Step 2: Visualize Your Healing You'll learn to turn your worries into vivid, healing images. As you use them daily to visualize your healing process, they will permeate your consciousness, facilitating your recovery.

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