Achieving Vibrance: A Seven-Minute-a-Day Plan for Feeling, Looking, and Being Younger [Paperback]

Gay Hendricks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 26, 2001

Vital, Harmonious, Clear—in Just Seven Minutes a Day

Do you feel like your physical energy has decreased? Is your mind in a fog? Are you troubled by stiffness and body pain?

If you said yes to any of the above questions, you are not alone. Through extensive research, Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has identified these concerns as the most common complaints of Americans over fifty. In response to these findings and his own concerns about aging, Hendricks developed Achieving Vibrance, a program designed to restore and optimize the harmonious feelings of our “original youth.” The easy-to-follow seven-minute program consists of six main concepts:

* The Vibrance mindset—attitudes that turn your Vibrance on
* The Vibrance flex—a basic movement of the spine that takes just two minutes a day
* The Vibrance breath—how to identify and cure the central breathing problem and maintain your oxygen balance
* Vibrant connections—the art of relationship flow
* Vibrant foods—three secrets for staying energetic and slender
* Neurogymnastics—keeping your mind vibrant

Learn the simple way to transform the experience of aging into a journey of vital expansion.

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Vital, Harmonious, Clear—in Just Seven Minutes a Day

Do you feel like your physical energy has decreased? Is your mind in a fog? Are you troubled by stiffness and body pain?

If you said yes to any of the above questions, you are not alone. Through extensive research, Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has identified these concerns as the most common complaints of Americans over fifty. In response to these findings and his own concerns about aging, Hendricks developed Achieving Vibrance, a program designed to restore and optimize the harmonious feelings of our "original youth." The easy-to-follow seven-minute program consists of six main concepts:

* The Vibrance mindset—attitudes that turn your Vibrance on
* The Vibrance flex—a basic movement of the spine that takes just two minutes a day
* The Vibrance breath—how to identify and cure the central breathing problem and maintain your oxygen balance
* Vibrant connections—the art of relationship flow
* Vibrant foods—three secrets for staying energetic and slender
* Neurogymnastics—keeping your mind vibrant

Learn the simple way to transform the experience of aging into a journey of vital expansion.

About the Author

GAY HENDRICKS, Ph.D., is the bestselling author of Conscious Loving and Conscious Breathing, as well as many other popular titles. With his wife, Kathlyn, he is the cofounder of the Hendricks Institute, which hosts workshops on numerous mind-body topics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (December 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609809393
• ISBN-13: 978-0609809396
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #966,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gay Hendricks has served for more than thirty years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. Throughout his career, Dr. Hendricks has coached more than eight hundred executives, including the top management at firms such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and KLM. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, he has coauthored many books including Conscious Loving, The Corporate Mystic, and his latest, the New York Times bestseller Five Wishes, which has been translated into seventeen languages. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford University. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor at the University of Colorado, he founded the Hendricks Institute, which offers seminars in North America, Asia, and Europe. He is also the founder of a new virtual learning center for transformation, www.gaiailluminationuniversity.com,
and The Spiritual Cinema Circle.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A practical guide to enjoying every minute of your life, February 23, 2005

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Michael Neill "the genius catalyst" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Achieving Vibrance: A Seven-Minute-a-Day Plan for Feeling, Looking, and Being Younger (Paperback)

Favorite quote:
"What would it take for me to feel better each day than I felt the day before?"

Gay Hendricks is one of my favorite personal development authors. Partly, this is because I feel he and I are walking similar paths towards what he calls 'Conscious Living', but a lot of it is more simple than that - he gives good technique. While I found it difficult to apply some of the specifics in the 'Vibrant Eating' part of this book, every other technique was easy to implement and almost immediately impactful.

Hendrick's divides the book into five core sections - the vibrance mindset, the vibrance flex (movement), vibrant breathing, vibrant eating, and vibrant connections (relationships). Each section is chock full of practical techniques and suggestions for gaining vibrance when you're feeling sludgy and maintaining and enhancing vibrance when you already are feeling good. In addition, the book finishes with three 'Vibrance routines' - a 7 minute foundation routine, an extended advanced routine, and a 14 day 'Neuro-gymnastics' program to install the vibrance mindset.

The fundamental premise here is simple yet radical - it is possible to feel vibrantly alive every minute of every day for as long as you live. While I can't personally vouch for the efficacy of that statement (yet!), I'll settle for what I have learned - I can feel more wonderfully alive in my body more of the time than I ever thought possible.

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing, February 12, 2009

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felix pichardo (new york city) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Achieving Vibrance: A Seven-Minute-a-Day Plan for Feeling, Looking, and Being Younger (Paperback)

this book is just wonderful!!!
the exercises are easy to do, with long lasting results.
if your looking to feel great, this is the book to buy.