Quantum Wellness: A Practical Guide to Health and Happiness [Kindle Edition]

Kathy Freston (Author)

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Review

"I can't tell you how much it's changed my life for the better." (Ellen DeGeneres )

"Kathy elegantly describes how health is a multi-dimensional experience of body, mind, and spirit and should be thought of as an ever-evolving process. As you try to make the small shifts and incremental changes she suggests, you will start to feel more conscious, more plugged in, more alive, and find yourself getting better and better at life." (Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. )

Product Description

An instant New York Times bestseller embraced and endorsed by such luminaries as Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Ellen DeGeneres, and Marianne Williamson, Quantum Wellness is the breakthrough book that created a national trend.

This life-changing guide teaches us how to reach our highest level of health and contentment through small, focused changes. Featuring a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, Quantum Wellness will forever change the way readers approach healthy living.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 399 KB
• Publisher: Weinstein Books (April 7, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001ADIWKG
• Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,766 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Kathy Freston is the New York Times bestselling author of Quantum Wellness and The One. 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 Oprah, The View, Good Morning America, and The Martha Stewart Show. She and her husband divide their time between New York and Los Angeles.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Body, Mind, Spirit and The Environment, January 6, 2010

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Eco-Friendly Interior Designer (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quantum Wellness: A Practical Guide to Health and Happiness (Paperback)

Body-mind-spirit, and , most recently--environment (eco-friendly) is the new mantra to living a full and complete and healthy life, as shown in Quantum Wellness and dozens of other new and not so new books. This is a good thing--seeing books on personal transformation extend beyond the self and into caring for the environment and all its inhabitants.

The way we think, feel and act is interconnected with the planet and the animals--with all of life. For example, Kathy Freston supports vegan diets (or at the very least vegetarian) not only because of the health benefits of a meat-free diet, but because eating most meat available in this country means eating animals that have been treated inhumanely. Additionally, raising animals for slaughter takes a toll on the environment.

Freston calls this conscious eating and that means that nobody is harmed by what she puts into her body.

Freston also supports using eco-friendly body care products and household cleaners--good for the environment and you.To name one of many books that support optimal health, veganism/vegetarianism and the green lifestyle is GROWING UP GREEN: BABY AND CHILD CARE.

Quantum Wellness, according to Kathy Freston, is an achievable higher state if being. Freston writes: "Quantum wellness is not about imposing big changes but about leaning into wellness, comfortably, adding things here and there to the thrust and taking baby steps toward the changes we want to achieve."

The quantum leap--or shift to quantum wellness occurs, according to Freston, as a result of many small steps. For example, Freston suggests baby steps to a more healthful diet--not meat eating one day and vegan the next.

According to Freston, there are The Eight Pillars of Wellness:
* Meditation
* Visualization
* Fun activities
* Conscious eating
* Exercise
* Self-work
* Spiritual practice
* Service

As an eco-friendly interior designer and feng shui practitioner, I was delighted to see Freston write about the importance of home in supporting our health. She tells us to remove clutter, resist buying new stuff unless we either love it or truly need it, and to use as little chemicals (cleaning products, personal care products,) as possible. This is very good advice, as the home definitely affects our well-being.

For a complete guide to greening your home (as well as making it beautiful and energetically vibrant) for optimal wellness, read the award winning book, HARMONIOUS ENVIRONMENT: BEAUTIFY, DETOXIFY & ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME & YOUR PLANET.

As previously mentioned, Freston supports veganism for optimal health. Understanding that the transition from omnivore to vegetarian can be difficult and that veganism is almost impossible for many of us to comprehend, she describes her own process and offers many helpful tips for the reader to adapt. According to Freston, living the vegan lifestyle is empowering. The book also contains vegetarian and vegan recipes to help us make the transition in our diets.

Freston covers a lot of ground in Quantum Wellness, including dealing with addictions and fears and questions to ask yourself when you aren't feeling 100%. As an extroverted person, I have a hard time with some of these sections, as I am not inclined to "look inside too often. Some people love to ask themselves questions and ponder...I either meditate or take a hike when I'm feeling sad, mad or whatever and that generally works for me. because of this, I got overwhelmed with all the suggestions of things to do to achieve perfect wellness.

On the other hand, I love that she suggests having some fun everyday.

Overall, a very good and inspirational book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerfully expansive!!!, July 13, 2009

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Beka Bernard "Beka" (Papaikou, HI USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Quantum Wellness: A Practical Guide to Health and Happiness (Paperback)

I adore this book. It was a reassuring reminder of things I already knew and continued to inspire me to improve my life- in the most inobtrusive way. I am a vegetarian and I appreciated her chapters about a person's eating habits; these have inspired me to go vegan.

An easy to read book, it's almost as if she's in your living room just chatting with you about the subjects. For this reason, it does not feel (at all) like she is forcing these ideas down your throat- she just empowers you to start thinking about what is best for you. She sends a message that I have applied to my daily life: Progress, not perfection.

This book is worth the investment, as it can powerfully expand your life in a multitude of ways.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but not life changing, May 12, 2011

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F. Young - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quantum Wellness: A Practical Guide to Health and Happiness (Paperback)

There is nothing really wrong with this book, but then, there was nothing really inspiring about it either. To me it was just ok. I read it on a recommendation from a friend who loved it, so I suppose some may love it. I just found all of the information to be a bit common sense. It may be because I have read similar books such as this one and many Buddhist books before, so that I had already been introduced to some of the ideas. If you haven't read any other books like this before you may like it more than I did. I was hoping this book would give me the mental willpower to go vegan (I am a vegetarian who would like to be vegan but find it hard to do) but it didn't. If you can buy it used cheaply or rent from the library it might be worth reading in my opinion.