It's All In Your Head: Change Your Mind - Change Your Health (Capital Ideas)

By Mark Pettus

In America today, many suffer from the "Lifestyle Syndrome," where poor eating habits, lack of exercise, depression and anxiety have caused an epidemic of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, high blood lipids, substance abuse, and general poor health, not to mention the cost. We are an addicted society and need to change how we think, feel, and behave to live better and longer. But how?

In "It’s All in Your Head," Dr. Mark Pettus tells how he turned his own life around and uses current scientific research to show that the secret to good health has been "in our heads" all the time. The will power to change in a positive manner, he reveals, is a biologic response that can be "turned on" in just four to six weeks to make us "addicted to health."

Dr. Pettus’s four-week self-directed program uses positive emotions, meditation, dedicated work, and self-awareness, to begin to achieve health, healing, and life satisfaction. "It’s All in Your Head" promises to change your mindset.

Crave activities like exercise, a healthy diet, less stress, and social stimulation as much as a smoker craves the next cigarette.
Gain greater awareness and control over the choices you make and their biological consequences.
Improve blood pressure, heart rate, and metabolic rate
Change your behavior and activities for better physical, emotional, and spiritual health
Create value in your life as you get up and start moving
Transform the fear in your life to greater confidence and well-being.

It’s accessible, easy-to-absorb and put-into-action health care.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933102225
• ISBN13: 9781933102221
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Capital Books, Incorporated
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Mind over Body

I loved this book as it was well researched and provided a different perspective on what drives our patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. It also connects many dimensions of living e.g. social connection, forgiveness, and conflict management with health outcomes. There is even a chapter on raising teenagers!

Groundbreaking!

In a very accessible and pragmatic way, Dr Pettus brings the burgeoning science of mind-brain-body into an effective roadmap for effectively changing behavior. He provides a lot of research data in support of many strategies for reducing allostatic load (a fascinating concept) and improving health.

Hope for Those Addicted to the Unhealthy Lifestyle

Dr. Mark Pettus is a rare doctor--one who makes changing your lifestyle to improve your health something anyone can achieve. He's compassionate, nonjudgmental, and inspirational. He looks at the whole picture -- what you eat and drink, how you exercise, how you interact with other people, and how you handle stress -- and makes suggestions for "bite-size" changes that can help you wean yourself off unhealthy behavior and into a whole new way of being. He helps you understand how your brain works, so you can literally "change your mind" and focus it on healthy changes in your life.