Synopses & Reviews
You’re concerned about your heart. You know to eat right and exercise regularly, but what you may not know is that there is an established correlation between your emotions and the health of your heart. Anger and anxiety, depression and stress can all make you more susceptible to heart disease. By learning to control these negative emotions, you can significantly reduce your risk of developing cardiac problems and increase your general well-being.
After offering an overview of how your emotions influence your heart, this book provides a comprehensive strategy for controlling negative emotions that put you at greater risk for heart problems. Use the book’s self-assessments to help you determine which negative emotions are the greatest dangers to your heart’s heath and then put its powerful set of emotional tools to work to help you manage them:
- Foster self-knowledge, expression, and acceptance
- Enhance positive experiences
- Counter negative thoughts and solve difficult problems
- Foster calm and clarity through relaxation
- Use visualization for stress management and goal achievement
- Build invaluable social support with interpersonal tools
- Encourage love, acceptance, and compassion through mindfulness practice
Review
“In spite of the breadth of evidence that emotional health can affect patient outcomes in heart disease, most cardiologists recognize neither the importance nor the treatable nature of emotional and behavior patterns that lead to worsening cardiac risk factors. This book compiles this information in a readable and practical way. The strength of this work is in the details—it is essentially a road map to emotional health, with specifics such as relaxation and anger management, with step-by-step techniques that can immediately benefit the patient.”
—Kim Allan Williams, MD, FACC, FCCP, FAHA, professor of medicine and radiology and director of nuclear cardiology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and president of the American Society for Nuclear Cardiology
Synopsis
In this first of its kind book, an expert on the ways that emotions affect physical health presents the latest research on how anxiety, anger, and depression contribute to heart disease and what can be done to reduce the negative effects.
Synopsis
Recent research demonstrates that negative emotions, particularly anger, anxiety, and depression, have a huge impact on heart health. The effect is so deleterious that doctors now regularly send patients with heart disease to seek psychological counseling.This book presents a complete emotional regulation program to readers struggling with emotional factors that contribute to heart disease.
The book opens with an overview of the health issues that contribute to heart problems. It establishes the need for heart disease sufferers to rein in the depression, anxiety, and anger that can aggravate their conditions. Then the book discusses the different emotional issues that contribute to poor heart health. It offers readers assessment quizzes to help identify their particular problems. The remainder of the book contains specific strategies for coping with issues in any of seven different areas of psychological health. The techniques include behavior-modification exercises, relaxation and visualization tips, and interpersonal and spiritual tools-all designed to help readers address each aspect of their emotional lives.
About the Author
Diwakar Jain, MD, FRCP, is professor of medicine and the director of nuclear cardiology and cardiology services at the Drexel University College of Medicine.Arthur M. Nezu, PhD, ABPP, is past president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT) and is currently professor of psychology, medicine, and public health at Drexel University. He is president of the American Board of Professional Psychology and codirector of the Center for Behavioral Medicine and Mind / Body Studies in Philadelphia, PA. Foreword writer E. Thomas Dowd, PhD, ABPP, is professor and interim chair of the Department of Psychology at Kent State University. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association in two divisions.Christine Maguth Nezu, PhD, ABPP, professor of psychology and associate professor of medicine at Drexel University, is codirector for the Center for Behavioral Medicine and Mind / Body Studies in Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a Trustee for the American Board of Professional Psychology.
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