The Fear Cure : Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind and Soul CD-Audio

Few in the conventional medical world are talking about how fear can make you sick, and even fewer are suggesting that courage can be a potent medicine.

But through her work with patients struggling to overcome illness, as well as her experience with her own health, Dr Lissa Rankin realized that fear is not just a nuisance emotion that makes us unhappy; it's a serious risk factor for disease that threatens our longevity.

The body's physiological response to fear raises patients' risk for conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer - and even when patients know what they need to do in order to heal, fear often holds them back.

In The Fear Cure, Dr Rankin presents a breakthrough understanding of fear, courage and health, exploring the psychospiritual roots of disease and charting a path back to wellness in body and soul.

Using peer-reviewed studies and scientifically proven techniques, she shows readers how fear operates and what can be done to reduce its damaging effects. Key points include: how a fearful thought translates into physiologic changes throughout the body that disable the body's natural self-healing mechanisms; the difference between 'clean fear' (the kind that arises from a genuine, present threat) and 'dirty fear' (which leads to unnecessary stress responses that put us at risk for disease); why a fear-based approach to health care can do more harm than good; and how mustering up courage not only heals our body, it heals our entire life.

Featuring a practical six-step process aligned with New York Times bestseller Mind Over Medicine.