The Love Response: Your Prescription to Transform Fear, Anger, and Anxiety Into Vibrant Health and Peace of Mind

By Eva M. Selhub, Divina Infusino, Divinia Infusino

Book Overview

Fear, anger, and anxiety-the side effects of life's everyday stresses-are natural and sometimes helpful, but left unchecked they can lead to a host of debilitating ailments that are now so common we assume they are unavoidable: heart disease, arthritis, gastrointestinal problems, depression, and more. There is good news, though: The key to a healthy life free of these conditions is to activate what Harvard Medical School instructor Dr. Eva Selhub calls the love response: a series of biochemical reactions that lower blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, and adrenaline levels, stimulating physical healing and reinstating balance and well-being. A practical life-healing program, the first of its kind, The Love Response is the result of Dr. Selhub's years of research-and clinical practice-on how to reverse the destructive physical effects of fear and stress, and banish emotional wounds from the past. Through a simple-to-use plan of awareness, breathing, visualization, and verbal command exercises, The Love Response reprograms your brain and changes your biochemistry from negative to positive, putting you on a path to long-term wellness and happiness. The Love Response is structured around the three essential building blocks of mental health: - social love-connecting not only in your intimate relationships but with family, friends, and pets - self-love-learning to nurture yourself with care and tenderness (often the hardest step) - spiritual love-contributing in meaningful ways to the world beyond your personal needs The Love Response provides all the tools you need to transform anger into compassion, release your fears, overcome shame, embrace self-acceptance, connect through empathy, and, ultimately, strengthen your natural ability to heal.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345506529
• ISBN13: 9780345506528
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Open your heart with this book.

I purchased Eva Selhub's CD's in addition to her book. Between the two and some other activities on my part, my heart is beginning to open again. I believe one of the most critical parts of her book was her realization that she did not love herself. I too, realized that I did not accept myself unconditionally. So like Eva, I began telling myself, "I love me." I also inserted that "God love's me." I believe that feeling love for oneself is the key to living a full life. Without heartfelt love, nothing else matters. And one must love oneself before they can truly extend love to anyone or anything else. So, if you don't already, you must begin loving yourself in order to open up to joy and happiness. This book will help you do that. Thank you Eva, your book is just what the doctor (in myself) ordered!

I love 'The Love Response': A much-needed book for our times

Just a day after getting the book, I'm about halfway through it (putting all the other books I'm reading on hold) and I'm enjoying it tremendously. Already using the SHIELD; love the exercises; love the case studies. It's basically a book about cultivating a profoundly spiritual way of life (in a craftily secular disguise) not because it's 'good' or 'noble' but because it's just plain healthy! It contains a series of powerful practices straight out of the greatest spiritual traditions in the world, made completely jargon-free and accessible. Dr Eva also provides the scientific basis for the benefits of these practices, just in case you had any doubts about their efficacy. Can't imagine a more positive, empowering message. Get one for yourself, and get a copy of each for any stressed-out loved ones you have.

All You Need Is Love

Just like the Beatles song, "All You Need Is Love", this books explains that whatever is going on in your life can be handle much better through love. The "Love Response" is a book that clearly and practically explains how to achieve this state of mind. When I practiced the meditations that Dr. Selhub describes in the book I found that it put me in a wonderfully happy and relaxed state ... like the feeling that one has when they're on vacation. In addition, the various case studies that are presented in the book also help the reader to relate to and understand how the techniques actually work. I would also recommend buying the two CD pack, "Ten Minutes to Relax: The Love Response". The cd's contain a series of meditations to accompany the book. I found that listening to these meditations was a great way to practice this work.

Learning to Shift Your Physiology Is the Difference

What I love about Dr. Selhub's book, "The Love Response," is that her work is easy-to-use self-help grounded in science and medicine. With a humor and a friendly bedside manner, Dr. Selhub teaches you techniques and practices that help you find and stay on your path to mental health and physical wellness. I have suffered from generalized anxiety my entire adult life and have gone through extensive therapy to help me function. Dr. Selhub's book and its "prescriptions" have provided me with a new approach to bring much needed balance, clarity and calm into my life. Thanks to this book, I am well aware of the why I am triggered by certain situations or when I am just feeling anxious or bad. Through reading "The Love Response" and using Dr. Selhub's CD's with her guided meditations, I now have tools to shift my physiology from the Stress/Fear response to Positive Physiology and The Love Response. It is truly amazing how well this works and how easy it is to do. I actually look forward each day to using the techniques I've learned. An unexpected side effect of changing my physiology was losing 8 pounds without dieting in the first 2 months of following her practice. Why? As I understand it, lower your stress levels and the pounds come off! I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to feel better emotionally, physically and/or spiritually. When you feel good and are in The Love Response, the people around you respond more positively and the world somehow feels like a better place!

The Love Response

Eva Selhub's book The Love Response is a beautiful read. Selhub swims against the current of mainstream medicine as she eloquently weaves together an approach to opening the heart that is both scientific and spiritual. In this gem of a book Dr. Selhub shares both her wisdom and an abundance of practical exercises designed to open the heart and activate "the love response." Eva's experiences as a physician, an energy healer, and a committed spiritual seeker, come together to create a rich and informative journey for the reader interested in healing the heart.