Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness »

KATHY FRESTON is the author of the New York Times bestselling The One: Discovering the Secrets of Soul Mate Love, and Expect a Miracle: Seven Spiritual Steps to Finding the Right Relationship. She has produced a popular series of guided-meditation CDs on relationships, healing the body, creating prosperity, losing weight, and destressing. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Harper s Bazaar, Self, W, and Fitness, among other publications, and she has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Good Morning America, and The Martha Stewart Show. She and her husband divide their time between New York and Los Angeles.

Praised and celebrated on such programs as The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and CBS'sThe Early Show, Kathy Freston's The One became a New York Times bestseller and a must-have for everyone looking to improve the quality of their relationships. Now Kathy is back with a new life-changing guide in which she teaches the principles of 'quantum wellness'—a significant increase in health of the mind, body, and spirit, achieved through small steps that yield extraordinary changes in our lives.

Freston looks at the various dimensions of wellness and how they can be approached. She allows that none of us makes perfect choices all the time and shows how baby steps regarding how to eat, how to work without living in constant stress, how to live in our imperfect bodies, and how staying positive and open to life can add up to significant breakthroughs in well-being. Freston advocates setting manageable goals—from choosing not to eat meat one day a week, then two, then more—building to...

Publishers Weekly

Former model Freston (The One) writes intimately about healing and finding wellness through "incremental changes that vault us to a new experience of ourselves." Peppered with examples from Freston's own path to more conscious, healthier living (quitting smoking, becoming vegan), the book methodically addresses what it means to be healthy in mind, body and spirit and how the three are inextricably intertwined. Some of Freston's prescriptions-such as cleansing, meditation and yoga-are familiar and feel like Hinduism and Buddhism lite-but her contention that "[w]e cannot thrive as individuals without tending to the ills of this world and all its inhabitants" is powerfully argued. The book devotes considerable attention to promoting vegetarianism ("It's about having integrity in the most fundamental of our actions-eating"), and in keeping with the book's attention to "incremental" change, Freston introduces ways for even the most hardened carnivore to start leading a cruelty-free life. With compelling chapters on dealing with crisis and an innovative section on "personal energy management," Freston invites-and equips-readers to become their own healers in moments of sickness, despair and loss. (May)

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Foreword Mehmet Oz xiii

Part 1 The Quantum Approach

Chapter 1 What Is Quantum Wellness?: Making the Body-Mind-Spirit Connection 3

Chapter 2 The Eight Pillars of Wellness 17

Part 2 Clearing the Way

Chapter 3 Shine a Little Light: Transforming the Shadow 49

Chapter 4 How to Hear Yourself Think: Clearing Mental Chatter 62

Chapter 5 A Jump Start for Your Body: Doing a Cleanse 67

Chapter 6 Your Nest: Creating a Magical Environment 91

Part 3 Laying the Groundwork

Chapter 7 Give Us This Day...: Considering the Health, Environmental, and Spiritual Implications of the Foods We Choose to Eat 101

Chapter 8 One Bite at a Time: Assumptions and Truths, Questions and Answers About Eating Consciously 119

Chapter 9 Personal Energy Management: Balancing the Four Rs 138

Part 4 Overcoming Obstacles

Chapter 10 When You Are Faced with Crisis: Becoming Your Own Healer 155

Chapter 11 More Detours on the Wellness Path: Breaking Bad Habits 174

Part 5 Making the Leap

Chapter 12 Be the Change: Stepping Up to the Life That Is Calling You 199

Appendix I Recipes 219

Appendix II Vitamins and Supplements 275

Suggested Reading and Viewing 279