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The 15 Minute Heart Cure: The Natural Way to Release Stress and Heal Your Heart in Just Minutes a Day

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Dr Kennedy hits this one head on. Finally a MD who understands that stress is the main cause and risk factors such as genetics, elevated blood pressure and elevated cholesterol are just that, risk factors. He guides you through an easy way to deal with stress and eliminate heart disease from your system. I've been a RN for 25 years specializing in cardiac care. Many patients that have heart disease are just treating symptoms with medication and procedures but not dealing with the underlying stresses in their lives that cause the disease in the first place. I highly recommend this book!!!

There are hundreds of books on Amazon about heart disease as well as stress reduction and the relaxation response. Some, like Dean Ornish's, are quite comprehensive and integrative in their approach to the problem. Others are overly narrow, stressing just one of the usual three legs of the tripod of diet, exercise, and stress. Then there are books that zoom in on one narrow aspect of their already narrow approach (the 2 currently most popular books concentrate on diet, though Esselstyne's "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" emphasizes abstinence from all fats, dairy, even fish and flax while Sinatra's "Reverse Heart Disease Now"-- with its advocation of CoQ10 and numerous non-prescription vitamins--comes close to making a pill junkie out of the afflicted).

It's a little like the old Indian tale of the blind men who are asked to determine the precise nature of an elephant by feeling it--each coming to a valid but necessarily limited and partial conclusion. Jennings and Kennedy's book acknowledges all three legs of the tripod but emphasizes stress reduction through exercise, relaxation, guided imagery and a simple breathing technique. To readers familiar with Herbert Benson's relaxation response and the numerous books it has spawned, this will be familiar ground. No doubt even readers without a representative collection of heart books are likely to "speed read" all of the statistics and anecdotal examples that the authors have collected in order to substantiate the claim that their approach is proven and useful and to "justify" a book devoted to a few basic techniques--a 15-minute cure--that may already be common wisdom to many readers.

Still, a book with a highly marketable title and hyperbolic sub-title (the sick are often as impatient and anxious for a quick read and simple and complete cure as the healthy) is unlikely to mislead those readers who choose to pick it up. Familiar and repetitive some of the information may be, but books such as this have a way of being read and then forgotten. Like the Sunday sermon, even the reader who is familiar with the "message" needs to be reminded of it from time to time, the greater the number of doctors, specialists, preachers, cheer-leaders the better. So in one sense it's good, especially for those of us who have lapsed in our programs and our former good intentions, that books on the subject of heart disease and lifestyle changes keep appearing.

The book is easily recommendable, and would make a good Kindle download (though some of us might wish that the price were reduced by another 20% for such a comparatively fast read). The advice is well-taken, the exercises within the reach of virtually everyone, and, unlike some books promoting mega-doses of arginine and other exotic chemicals, vitamins and herbs, this one cannot possibly do the reader who follows its prescriptions any harm.

This is an amazing book by Dr. John M.Kennedy! The BREATHE technique outlined by DR. Kennedy is simple yet life changing. I just started using the BREATHE technique after reading the book and have found it to be an incredibly simple, easy way to reduce stress on my heart and regain balance in my life. We all live in stressful times yet this simple process has allowed me to calm down an I truly appreciate this book and will use this for the rest of my life. I think this book will be a huge success since it applies to all of us who live with stress on a daily basis!

I found this book to be disappointing. I read it, tried the exercises, and found myself frustrated because I really wanted to feel de-stressed...but wasn't. The book is replete with anecdotes about the author's interactions with various patients, and I felt that most of it was redundant. The main B-R-E-A-T-H-E exercise may be valuable to some and could have been taught in one simple chapter without the rest of the chatter.

I never doubted that meditation is a healthy practice, but I didn't realize how it can actually help prevent and even cure an ailing heart. Dr. Kennedy has written an entertaining, encouraging, easy-to-read book on how to stay alive in this stressful world. He backs up his statements with reference to important research studies and to his own experiences during his many years of practice. I am a library director and will highly recommend this book to my patrons. In fact, I may even offer a few free public programs teaching folks Dr. Kennedy's methods of relaxation.

This is a phenoemenal review of the subject "emotional stress and heart disease" and is written in story telling format which makes the information entertaining and educational. I've read much on the subject and this is the first book that really provides the reader with tools that are simple, effective, and even a little addicting!!Thanks for giving us all a much needed B-R-E-A-T-H-E-r!

It does my heart good (literally) to see such a simple and basic ancient discipline as breath work incorporated by a member of the American medical community. Since reading The 15 minute Heart Cure, I have practiced Dr. Kennedy's Breathe Technique in many of my daily activities. When I find myself tense and holding my breath, or feel generally stressed out, it helps release tension and brings a sense of calm and clarification to stressful situations. The more I practice this breathing and visualization technique, the easier it becomes to diffuse daily stress.

Easy read and thoughtful message. Everyone will benefit from these breathing and guided imagery experiences. Dr Kennedy leads you through a series of techniques that work to relax and reduce stress on your heart and spirit. Take a deep breath, relax, heal your heart. It really works!

I just finished reading Dr. Kennedy's book - very well written and very comprehensive.

Excellent examples to practice and follow - I would highly recommend this book to everyone, including healthy individuals without any heart issues!!

Dr. Kennedy has got it right. Dr Sarno and the mind over body technique has helped me with back pain and now Dr Kennedy has taught me how to reduce stress and reduce my blood pressure. This is so easy to do and so relaxing, give it a try.