Product Description

Fear, anger, and anxiety–the side effects of life’s everyday stresses–are natural and sometimes helpful, but left unchecked they can lead to a host of debilitating ailments that are now so common we assume they are unavoidable: heart disease, arthritis, gastrointestinal problems, depression, and more. There is good news, though: The key to a healthy life free of these conditions is to activate what Harvard Medical School instructor Dr. Eva Selhub calls the love response: a series of biochemical reactions that lower blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, and adrenaline levels, stimulating physical healing and reinstating balance and well-being.

A practical life-healing program, the first of its kind, The Love Response is the result of Dr. Selhub’s years of research–and clinical practice–on how to reverse the destructive physical effects of fear and stress, and banish emotional wounds from the past. Through a simple-to-use plan of awareness, breathing, visualization, and verbal command exercises, The Love Response reprograms your brain and changes your biochemistry from negative to positive, putting you on a path to long-term wellness and happiness. The Love Response is structured around the three essential building blocks of mental health:

• social love–connecting not only in your intimate relationships but with family, friends, and pets
• self-love–learning to nurture yourself with care and tenderness (often the hardest step)
• spiritual love–contributing in meaningful ways to the world beyond your personal needs

The Love Response provides all the tools you need to transform anger into compassion, release your fears, overcome shame, embrace self-acceptance, connect through empathy, and, ultimately, strengthen your natural ability to heal.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181477 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-27
• Released on: 2009-01-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 6.45" w x 9.75" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780345506528
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Advance praise for The Love Response

“Dr. Eva Selhub shows us how to transform fear into trust, pain into joy, and hatred into love. The Love Response is beautifully written and full of wisdom that is both highly practical and deeply spiritual.”
–Dean Ornish, M.D., founder and president, Preventive Medicine Research Institute and author of The Spectrum

“In this elegant book, Dr. Eva Selhub shows how, through very precise biological mechanisms, love heals us. Read this book and heal yourself.”
–Deepak Chopra

“Especially relevant in today’s tumultuous times, this is a wonderful guide to healing and happiness. Through practical steps that develop and help us access our own love response, Dr. Selhub helps change the proverbial lead in our lives into gold.”
–John Ratey, M.D., clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

“Eva Selhub is a gifted healer who integrates scientific medicine, wisdom traditions, and psychological insights.”
–Ted Kaptchuk, author of The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine

“This book will change your life–it might even save it!”
–Gustav Dobos, M.D., chair of complementary and integrative medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany


From the Hardcover edition.

Review
Advance praise for The Love Response

“Dr. Eva Selhub shows us how to transform fear into trust, pain into joy, and hatred into love. The Love Response is beautifully written and full of wisdom that is both highly practical and deeply spiritual.”
–Dean Ornish, M.D., founder and president, Preventive Medicine Research Institute and author of The Spectrum

“In this elegant book, Dr. Eva Selhub shows how, through very precise biological mechanisms, love heals us. Read this book and heal yourself.”
–Deepak Chopra

“Especially relevant in today’s tumultuous times, this is a wonderful guide to healing and happiness. Through practical steps that develop and help us access our own love response, Dr. Selhub helps change the proverbial lead in our lives into gold.”
–John Ratey, M.D., clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

“Eva Selhub is a gifted healer who integrates scientific medicine, wisdom traditions, and psychological insights.”
–Ted Kaptchuk, author of The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine

“This book will change your life–it might even save it!”
–Gustav Dobos, M.D., chair of complementary and integrative medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

About the Author
Eva M. Selhub, M.D., is a senior staff physician at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. An integrative health specialist and the founder of Alight Medicine for Learning and Healing in Newton, Massachusetts, she is also a clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Selhub has lectured throughout the United States and Europe and has trained healthcare professionals across the globe. Her articles have been published in medical journals and featured in national publications including The New York Times, USA Today, Self, Shape, Fitness, and Journal of Woman’s Health, and she has appeared on television in connection with her work. Dr. Selhub lives in Boston.

www.loveresponse.com

Customer Reviews

Learning to Shift Your Physiology Is the Difference
What I love about Dr. Selhub's book, "The Love Response," is that her work is easy-to-use self-help grounded in science and medicine. With a humor and a friendly bedside manner, Dr. Selhub teaches you techniques and practices that help you find and stay on your path to mental health and physical wellness.

I have suffered from generalized anxiety my entire adult life and have gone through extensive therapy to help me function. Dr. Selhub's book and its "prescriptions" have provided me with a new approach to bring much needed balance, clarity and calm into my life.

Thanks to this book, I am well aware of the why I am triggered by certain situations or when I am just feeling anxious or bad. Through reading "The Love Response" and using Dr. Selhub's CD's with her guided meditations, I now have tools to shift my physiology from the Stress/Fear response to Positive Physiology and The Love Response. It is truly amazing how well this works and how easy it is to do. I actually look forward each day to using the techniques I've learned. An unexpected side effect of changing my physiology was losing 8 pounds without dieting in the first 2 months of following her practice. Why? As I understand it, lower your stress levels and the pounds come off!

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to feel better emotionally, physically and/or spiritually. When you feel good and are in The Love Response, the people around you respond more positively and the world somehow feels like a better place!

I love 'The Love Response': A much-needed book for our times
Just a day after getting the book, I'm about halfway through it (putting all the other books I'm reading on hold) and I'm enjoying it tremendously. Already using the SHIELD; love the exercises; love the case studies. It's basically a book about cultivating a profoundly spiritual way of life (in a craftily secular disguise) not because it's 'good' or 'noble' but because it's just plain healthy! It contains a series of powerful practices straight out of the greatest spiritual traditions in the world, made completely jargon-free and accessible. Dr Eva also provides the scientific basis for the benefits of these practices, just in case you had any doubts about their efficacy. Can't imagine a more positive, empowering message. Get one for yourself, and get a copy of each for any stressed-out loved ones you have.

The Love Response
Eva Selhub's book The Love Response is a beautiful read. Selhub swims against the current of mainstream medicine as she eloquently weaves together an approach to opening the heart that is both scientific and spiritual. In this gem of a book Dr. Selhub shares both her wisdom and an abundance of practical exercises designed to open the heart and activate "the love response." Eva's experiences as a physician, an energy healer, and a committed spiritual seeker, come together to create a rich and informative journey for the reader interested in healing the heart.