Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love » (Reprint)

JUDITH ORLOFF, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. She is the author of the bestsellers Positive Energy, Dr. Judith Orloff’s Guide to Intuitive Healing, and Second Sight.

Dr. Judith Orloff has the answers for those of us who feel exhausted and scared by the demands that we put on ourselves and that an often hostile world puts on us. Dr. Orloff has done vital research on "intuitive medicine," and she now combines this with the complementary field of "energy psychiatry," in which one comes to understand the body's own energy, or "chi." The results of this synthesis are concrete ways in which one can take care of one's mind and body, ranging from avoidance of "Energy Vampires" to relief from "Energy Defensive Eating." Exercises of one to three minutes are just right for today's busy and distracted soul. Ten principles of positive energy will reinforce you against mental pressures, without and within.

Publishers Weekly

Orloff, a psychiatrist who has appeared frequently on television and written an eponymous Guide to Intuitive Healing, here provides 10 detailed prescriptions for harnessing one's "positive energy" to replace fatigue with physical and emotional vigor. Her commonsense program includes pursuing an individual spiritual path, developing "true-to-self eroticism," designing an energy-building diet and exercise plan, learning to celebrate laughter and protecting oneself from "energy vampires." Along with practice exercises for following these prescriptions, each section ends with a public figure describing the ways that he or she uses Orloff's methods. In the chapter on spirituality, Amy Gross, editor in chief of O: The Oprah Magazine, discusses how practicing deep breathing and meditation replenishes energy as she centers herself. Wavy Gravy, who warned against eating the brown acid at Woodstock, explores the way laughter has not only helped him cope with pain but also heightened his vitality level. Orloff delivers her revivification techniques in thoughtful, accessible prose that some may find an energy builder in itself. (Apr.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.