Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being

Stepping into a new frontier of health, Choosing Brilliant Health is the first practical guide to discovering the most powerful, yet least utilized, route to good healthathe thoughts and behaviors that create positive emotions.

Based on groundbreaking new studies showing that positive emotions are a root cause of good health, high immune function, and better healing, the book offers a clear, concise path to unraveling the mysteries of the mind-body connection.

Choosing Brilliant Health provides the means for anyone to take control of their health and to thrive in spite of inevitable illness and aging. By integrating a specific and easy-to-implement set of nine attitude-driven behaviors that strongly correlate with high quality of life and emotional well-being, people can actually alter their physical state, be more resilient, reduce pain, and recover faster from illness and surgeryato live longer and live better.

9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality 1. Intention: When we make a conscious choice to embrace the most beneficial thoughts and behaviors, we will determine how we react and what actions we need to take.

2. Accountability: By taking full ownership of our health, we avoid falling into the traps of blame, victim-hood, or apathy.

3. Identification: When we determine and envision our passions and most significant life experiences, we experience true joy and genuine positive emotions.

4. Centrality: Doing the things we love creates a self-perpetuating cycle of energy and engagement.

5. Recasting: Convert the sadness, fear, anger, and despair of trauma and illness into meaning, opportunity, and action.

6. Options: By recognizing the choices we have, we can create hope and resilience.

7. Appreciation: The deepest form of gratitude is a rich understanding and expression of the meaning, quality, and importance of our bodies and our lives.

8. Giving: To give to others and allow others to give to us is an exceptionally potent prescription for well-being.

9. Truth: For the sake of our own survival the natural default position of our brains is set on truthabeing honest with others and ourselves.

Stepping into a new frontier of health, Choosing Brilliant Health is the first practical guide to discovering the most powerful, yet least utilized, route to good health – the thoughts and behaviors that create positive emotions.

Based on groundbreaking new studies showing that positive emotions are a root cause of good health, high immune function and better healing, the book offers a clear, concise path to unraveling the mysteries of the mind-body connection.

Choosing Brilliant Health provides the means for anyone to take control of their health and to thrive in spite of inevitable illness and aging. By integrating a specific and easy-to- implement set of nine attitude-driven behaviors, people can live in Brilliant Health and actually alter their physical state, boost their immune function, reduce pain, enhance their ability to fight disease, reduce stress, recover faster from surgery, and live a longer and better life.

With a blend of personal and inspiring stories, testimonials from healthcare professionals and the hard science that substantiates the amazing affects of the“Brilliant Healt” system, Choosing Brilliant Health shows us:

* Tangible things we can do each day to reset our biochemistry and feel more energized.

* Key thoughts and behaviors that actually change the pathways in our brain.

* How we boost our immune system by triumphing over the“victi” brain.

* The latest research in Positive Psychology and how it supports all nine Brilliant Health choices.

* A process called recasting, which helps to convert despair into meaning, opportunity, and resilience.

* A quick, diagnostic self-test to determine your own Brilliant Health quotient.

Jen Seda, MD was a founding member of Mayo Clini‛s Integrative Medicine program and an expert in the biochemistry of bind-body medicine, specializing in the psychological factors that affect health and immune function.