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This is a good book. It is well written and very insightful.

Dr. Michael L. Johnson, author of "What Do You Do When the Medications Don''t Work--A Non-Drug Treatment of Dizziness, Migriane Headaches, Fibromyalgia, and Other Chronic Conditions".

Blakley and Siegel do an excellent job of explaining dizziness in terms that are easy to understand for a person unfamiliar with medical terminology. I have Meniere's Disease, of which dizziness is a symptom, and this is the first book I turn to for reference. Its only drawback is that is isn't up-to-date on current treatments, which is, of course, impossible

This was a very helpful book on how fluids and electrolytes work in the body

I have purchased this series for peds, med surg and fluids & electrolytes and critical care nursing. Without fail other students want these books. Class lecture follows these books nearly verbatim. Thus I can follow along in the book while listening. I don't even need to take seperate notes. Although sometimes I do write notations in the columns when my teacher stresses a particular point. The diskette that comes with the series is the best review that I have found. I am on the Dean's List in part to this series.

Although I'm just starting my meditation, I think it's an excellent introduction into meditation and one's life. It focuses heavily on the mind and building awareness and thereby gives glimpses at the goals of the practice of meditation. Tulku continually explains why many people feel lost, anxious and misdirected in their lives and how meditation can help these people find a natural inner confidence. If you're looking for something to tell you to 'sit here, think this, breath this way' you might be disappointed in the philosophical nature of this book's writing. I think that's a normal attitude for us beginners to have, but once you've begun your journey on the path of meditation you'll probably think your original preconceptions about it were silly.

This is an absolute gem of a book. Read it

Doc Childre talks very simply to teenagers and the teens in everyone and addresses very down-to-earth issues. He leads us on a journey of self-discovery and helps us to become "heart-smarts". This is about tapping into the resources of both the head and the heart, being responsible for one's actions and reactions, building heart security and self-esteem and riding the waves of emotion instead of letting them engulf us. Creative cartoons convey beautifully the key ideas. The book ends with "A Few Heart Smart Practices" illustrating how the heart can respond much more resourcefully than the head to situaitons like: a friend snubs you; you feel a parent just doesn't understand you; you don't fit in; feeling bored... Behind the simple advice are decades of research and team work developing The HeartMath System. This book is just as useful today after almost a decade since it was first published. [Please confer my other reviews for more background, starting with Cut-Thru.]

Uhhh.... this book was good. I now have self esteem, I guess, at least the book told me I did. Isn't that cool? So.. my advice...get it. Hope you like my review, isn't it cool?

I have 2 videos and 2 books now, and this one is good.. Videos are too fast and the concept is not learned. My other book is too advanced. But this book begins slowly and teaches the concept slowly using the first exercises to learn the technique.. of breathing and moving in sinc. By using Lynne Robinsons video to learn to breath and begin the process, along ith this book to begin the gentle moves.. I have found a system for me..

Absolutely delighted with the clear, concise way this book has been put together for teaching the Pilates method. Excellent photographs to show all positions. A book well suited to the older person especially those wanting to take control of their lazy tummy muscles again. (Tip: I use a child's soccer ball instead of the cushion or bolster which is suggested.) Congratulations to the instructor, author and publisher. A very delighted reader and practitioner at home who did not want to join a class.

This is the 3rd book I know of so far from author Gloria Benish. She takes a very refreshing approach to spirituality, using honesty and humor to get her points across. Imagine a spiritual leader who when called "wise," calls herself a "smart ...!?"

Spiritual Training Wheels is filled with straight talk about ways to keep your soul in balance. We all make mistakes and no one is perfect, but you soon learn that anyone of any background is capable of tapping into positive spiritual energy.

The author shares many stories and adventures with her ex-con friend and student Nikki, a drug addict who at one point tried to kill herself by falling backwards off her top prison bunk in hopes of breaking her neck. Gloria took this woman in, and let her share her family's home. Nikki was like a bird with a broken wing who now flies high and proud, and not without teaching a few lessons to Gloria along the way!

If you're feeling trapped in your life, Gloria teaches us about free will. You will be shown how to remove the mental blocks we create to keep from letting ourselves grow. Learn the basics of meditation, the use of violet light energy, and how to use healing in different energy centers and chakras of our bodies.

This book has a heavy focus on family, but you soon learn that definition includes spiritual and physical families as well. People with traditional families will enjoy chapters on gifted children, family love, and the facts of life.

Now for the greatest part of this book, the unwritten part that comes from you! Each chapter ends with several questions for the reader to answer in their own journal. This will help you take a great inward look at yourself, so you can dissolve fears and boundaries. You'll also visualize and create new beginnings and dreams.

If you ever get the chance, take one of Gloria Benish's workshops if she is in your area. I took one a few years ago, and was able to customize some of her techniques and found them very helpful.

Spiritual Training Wheels is a book you'll spend hours with, and you'll want to answer the journal questions more than once as your environment changes over the years. This book is just the push most people will need, to help get some balance back in their lives.

Like the title above states this is my opinion of all of Gloria Benish's books. All chapters are introduced in a very warm, friendly and welcoming way. After reading all her books, some things may appear repetitious. I just look at them as quick reminders. Sometime this is necessary. Just have the patience to absorb all info. This is what's completely different about this 3rd book: it challenges the mind a bit through the sections at the end of each chapter and the new info off course. Anyways, in my heart her book gets more than 5 stars.

My ongoing professional development involves a commitment to read books that have nothing to do with my profession. I chose this book for two reasons: It is the textual basis for a faith-sharing program in which I am involved at my church. I also thought its subject was far a-field from my job as a preceptor/facilitator.It appears I was mistaken on the second reason.

Gregory Pierce is in the publishing business, he's a husband and father, and he's active in his church and civic communities. The subtitle, "10 ways to balance your life on the job" is really what the book is all about. As he puts it, "It is pretty clear that God is present on our workplaces. Yet the workplace is a difficult place to 'be spiritual.' It is noisy, crowded, complex, competitive, materialistic, tiring, frustrating, dangerous, busy, [and] secular. To find God there, we have [to work hard at it], and most of our traditional spiritual disciplines are not well designed to help us do that."

This is the belief that forms his thesis and Pierce's life experiences provided the motivation for his writing. The writing is crisp and clear, and, unlike similar spiritual books, is not aimed at changing one's belief systems about God, but it's rather a 'how-to' book on achieving a higher level of spirituality in the workplace.

Pierce establishes some common language for us about work, defines spirituality, and he adds some ground rules about how he wants us to focus on what he refers to as spirituality disciplines. He presents ten disciplines, or practices, for spiritual improvement and invites our examination in the context of what we do with each area daily.

This book revealed more about leadership than I first imagined. Woven into each discussion on each of the disciplines are anecdotal quotes concerning how each person practices their spirituality and why it's important for them to do so. Although he didn't use the term servant-leader, Pierce shares this from a social worker who was talking about her boss:
"She was direct and honest but never disparaging of others. She was strategic but not conniving. Her power came from her vision, not just from the authority she held by virtue of her position. She was gentle in her correction or direction of others- affirming not mushy. [She] was passionate but not emotional, smart, tolerant of other views but always clear about her own. She treated others like she wanted to be treated, and others who worked for her eventually began to behave that way too." This reflects that notion of Robert Greenleaf's servant leadership plus the "modeling the way" espoused by Kouzes and Posner.

These ten disciplines remind one of Stephen Covey's Seven Habits, especially Pierce's last discipline entitled "Engaging in Ongoing Personal and Professional Development." This was almost a carbon copy of Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw. The book is simply constructed, with just enough thought provocation on each spirituality discipline followed at chapter end by a section prescribing real-life methods of practicing each discipline discussed in that chapter. Great stuff!

This was a well-conceived and well-researched book by an author who convinced me that he had experienced the same kinds of issues and problems faced by those searching to practice spirituality at work. I recommend putting this book on your leadership bookshelf for the practical lessons it teaches and for the timelessness of the author's prescription for a balanced life.

This wonderful little book could be aptly subtitled "Spirituality for the rest of us." Pierce, who confesses himself "piety-impaired," has written a practical, day-to-day handbook for discovering the divine presence as it lurks in some of the places we may least expect it.

This is not a book about how to cope with jobs that overwhelm and diminish us. It is rather a step-by-step set of instructions, which Pierce terms "disciplines," through which we may actively transform our daily grind (whether we're priests or poets, doctors, lawyers, butchers, bakers or candlestick-makers) into our own best crack at co-creation of the world. It is not a book about getting away from the world, but rather a book about getting really into the world with our spiritual wholeness intact, about remembering to remember that God is present among the daily hum and rattle, if only we have the personal discipline to look. Not a book to read and put away or pass along, you'll want to keep it desk-side, a User's Manual for the spirit, available for ready reference.

All too often one is exposed to the glamour of the life of a diplomat. This book is an insightful look into the work-a-day world of an American diplomat. Well worth the read.

An extremely well-documented account of Mr. Boudreau's incredulous career intertwined with deep concern for caring for his family in a foreign, often hostile environment. Book is untinged by prejudice of any kind; has many down-to-earth insights. As I read each chapter I was amazed at the tasks Mr. Boudreau was assigned, which would intimidate most most men.
His diplomacy rose to the occasion over and over again, solving potential crisis and disaster. I admire his wife, Dailyn, for accompanying her husband to Africa and other places he was assigned to, having her children with her etc. and placing herself in possible dangerous situations, yet having the guts to "stand by her man" and assist in any and all ways she could. I have recommended Mr. Boudreau's book to many of my friends and family. Very educational, emotional, often times humorous, and a valid account of history.

I have read both books. I will say that both books are well written, in a sense that they are easy to understand. Marilu relays all of the information to you as if she is talking to you - no big words, no hard to understand philosophies. I found the information interesting and tried this way of life for about 3 weeks - no dairy, no meat, no sugar, no caffiene, no white flour....I went "all out". I have a feeling this way of life is nuch easier when you have someone shopping and/or cooking for you. I found it very difficult to shop and cook for one. (My husband thought I was nuts, therefore he would not take part in this new way of "looking at food".) Most of the foods were very expensive, and some would go bad before I could eat them, not to mention that many of them were impossible to find in the grocery store/health food store. What Marilu says about the foods we eat, the foods we don't really need to eat, and food combining makes a lot of sense, but applying it to real life was an obstacle for me. I will still pay close attention to my sugar and caffiene intake, and even white flour - but the rest of it? I don't forsee it working into my busy schedule...I think this way of life almost has to become a hobby, for it to work for you. It takes a great deal of dedication, energy and imagination to convert to this change. (I will say that after reading the chapters on milk and beef, I have no desire to consume these produts. YUCK!) I think it is great that it works for Marilu, (she looks terrific!) and some of her readers. I just don't think it is something we all can make work!

Very well-written and thorough approach to healthy lifestyle. I bought the book 3 days ago, have finished it and already loaned it to a friend. Her chapter on dairy, while stomach-turning, was thought provoking. I must say that the overall plan is difficult for the average person who doesn't have the financial diet Henner has (the brands of products she mentioned are available in stores 50 miles away from me AND cost way more than my food budget will allow.) A sideline that I found most inspiring was Henner's complete honesty about her weight fluctuation. Most actresses would rather die than have pictures of themselves at the weights Henner had throughout her life. Added a very refreshing dose of honest and proof that she knows what she's talking about. I appreciated the overal honesty, but wish that it could be more practically applied to people NOT pulling down grande salary a year. That being said, the principles are the signficant factor, and shouldn't be over! ! shadowed by Henner's tendancy to brand-name drop. I know I'm convinced and have already decided to give up red meat AND caffeine. If I can look 1/10th as good as her, it will be time and money well-spent. The best $24 investment you can make in your health!

When I came here to read the reviews, I noticed that one person said that milk is not an allergy, but rather an intolerance. As someone who IS allergic to milk without an intolerance to lactose, I can tell you that her claims are not unfounded. I appreciate the book from it's outlook on the milk perspective because ever since I was young, I have carried this ongoing allergy -- until a doctor finally told us, we never knew. I had chronic ear aches, an ongoing runny nose, and dark circles under my eyes. And now as an adult, my face breaks out in zits if I consume large quantities. I repeat... I AM NOT LACTOSE INTOLERANT, BUT AM ALLERGIC, so when you read all of these reviews remember that not everyone knows what they are talking about. If they did, they would be writing a book, and obviousely they aren't... only bad reviews.

Everyone should make their own decision about any book, and since technology is changing at such a fast rate, so does much of the information we learn about nutricion. Make your own judgments.

From my personal perspective, there are many great claims in the book. I think her ideas about food balancing are great, and I love the milk speech. A few of the ideas are questionable, such as not having protien with a starch, but I have cut most starches out of my diet due to the "South Beach Diet." I only consume whole grain breads and pastas (minimally), etc.

I do agree with the statement in one of the reviews about the claims on soy. There have been research claims that state that it can be hazardous. And again, this is another highly allergetic food. In fact, I am allergic to soy milk as well! If you decide to incorporate soy into your diet, make sure to do some research before delving head first.

Do not buy this book as a diet to lose weight... that's not what any diet should be intended for. You have to look at it as a life-style change, and I think Marilu does a good job of portraying that. She made a believer out of me and changed my perspective on true health.

First thing I want to say is this.... some of the reviews I read on Amazon seem like they are written by the employees of the publishers, or companies products trying to act like a real end user! Some are so obvious and others do a pretty good acting job ( should win an Oscar!)

I am a 46 year old male. I am in good shape and I work out.

I tried this when it first came out. Right after I tried Atkins before everyone else was doing it. My sister got a job at the Zone in Mass coincidently at the same time. There is so much marketing and sales there!

Who can really eat like that. Counting blocks etc! It's ridiculous. It's way too tedious.

I just read Body For Life and it is a pretty good book, but it pushes the supplements from the authors Company (EAS) and tries to make a cookie cutter approach to all people. However, For the most part, the book is the type of routine most people can use for the long haul.

The long and the short of it I am concluding is to not do any type of EXTREME diets. Just watch your nutrition and calories for a few weeks by writing everything down until you are educated on what you are putting in your mouth. You will get the hang of it and you will not need to write things down once you have things memorized and know how to eat.

You will be amazed at certain foods that you should stay away from and others that are wonderful. Actually Body For Life is a great starting point for this concept. You don't have to take any of the supplements they recommend since 98% of your problem is in the other stuff like eating and exercise. Take care of that 98%. The author gives a good road map and then you can tweak it to your own lifestyle. Get a personal trainer if you can afford it, even if you are experienced. I did, and it really motivated me after years of doing the same old routines. He also helped my with my nutrition questions.

Bottom line is you have to have a slight caloric deficit ( you do not have to go around hungry all the time either ) , try to eat more than 3 times a day if your schedule allows. IF not then get some Protein Bars of fresh fruit (Yogurt, other healthy snacks) between meals so you don't get hungry and you keep your metabolic rate up.

This is NOT rocket science.

Sorry folks, there is no easy way out. You have to exercise, not just cardio, but some weight lifting if you want a nice physique and want to feel great.

I found the book excellent because it talks about reality.. that taking carbohydrates would just make you fat, and that the reason why people don't have any energy is because they aren't eating fats to give them that energy. My fiancee and I are trying it out(I'm trying to gain, and she's trying to lose weight), and have found that our energy has never been better.

Unlike what another person has said, I never found this book confusing at all, whereas my fiancee did. The reasoning behind the confusion, in my opinion, is because all of these magazines talking about some new "diet" using pastas and rice, and Boost with their "energy drink". For too long, we have been inundated with false information most likely from some company who's told the government that this is the right way to eat and lose weight. Thank goodness for this book. People can finally eat properly, and all based on scientific research. As well, I've also seen the ideas in real magazines such as "Muscle Media" and "Oxygen".

Now for the "but". I did not agree with the use of aspirin to lower cholesterol. When I got to that part, I read a few pages, and almost tore it out of the book. Why would I take such a drug to lower my cholesterol? What about the chances of getting addicted? With all the illegal drug addicts dying, there is never any mention of aspirin and tylenol addicts.

Finally, this book failed to mention that the best way to lose fat and increase metabolism, is to lift weights. Muscle is the best fat burner that nature has given us, and yet very few mention that.

I have been working out for years and within the last year I have been running over 12 miles a week, weight training, taking boot camp classes at my gym as well as tai box classes three times a week. I thought I was eating healthy. But I could never lose any weight. I grow up eating bread with every meal. I originaly read Dr. Atkin's boot the New Diet Revolution. I found this boot to be to strigent for my liking. I was feeling tired and weak. I read the Zone and with in the last two weeks I lost five pounds, feel energize as well as I did not suffer from any PMS. I have told my mother about this book as well as a friend who suffers from MS. They both went out and bought the book and are begining the zone plan. This book makes it easy to follow. I was amazed it even suggested what type of fast food I could eat.