Effortless Pain Relief: A Guide to Self-Healing from Chronic Pain (Hardcover)

by Ingrid lorch Bacci (Author) "To heal from chronic pain, you have an abundance of options..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

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Paul Davidson, Medical Director, Fibromyalgia Clinic, Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital; author of "Chronic Muscle Pain Syndrome"

The optimal treatment [for chronic pain] lies not in medications but in a comprehensive self-empowerment approach. This book is a 'must read' for chronic pain sufferers. It would make a wonderful, enlightening gift for your physician!

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Louise Hay, founder of Hay House; author of You Can Heal Your Life

All those who are suffering in pain can begin their healing by reading this book. After seventy-seven years on this planet, I finally learned from Dr. Bacci why I have such extreme tension in my neck and shoulders, and simple changes in the way I stand have made an enormous difference. I am deeply grateful to Dr. Bacci for this book,

Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body

Dr. Ingrid Bacci takes us step by step through methods that have transformed the lives of thousands of individuals who have put these techniques to the test.

Paul Davidson, Medical Director, Fibromyalgia Clinic, Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital; author of Chronic Muscle Pain Syndrome

The optimal treatment [for chronic pain] lies not in medications but in a comprehensive self-empowerment approach. This book is a 'must read' for chronic pain sufferers. It would make a wonderful, enlightening gift for your physician!

Jean Houston, Ph.D., author of A Passion for the Possible

This book is a godsend! Not only does it offer state-of-the-art strategies to relieve and heal chronic pain, but it awakens a new order of body-mind awareness that can only enhance one's life and possibilities.

Roger Jahnke, OMD, author of The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi

Dr. Bacci's intriguing science of self-healing provides excellent tools for gaining freedom from pain. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Free Press; 1 edition (December 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743260759
• ISBN-13: 978-0743260756
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #805,864 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to Heal Yourself , January 6, 2008

By	Susan C. Lanzano (Briarcliff Manor,NY 10510) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Effortless Pain Relief: A Guide to Self-Healing from Chronic Pain (Hardcover)

Effortless Pain Relief is both an unusual and a really important book. It has a revolutionary and very effective approach to helping you heal yourself from chronic pain - back, neck or shoulder pain, fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc. Its core idea is that chronic pain, no matter what its original cause, always involves muscle tension, and that letting go of the tension is letting go of the pain. The idea that muscular tension is the source of pain is not in itself that new. John Sarno, for example, in his book Mind Over Back Pain, holds to that view. But John Sarno's solution is just to ask you to figure out what problem in your life is causing the tension, and then you will feel better. That works sometimes, but a lot of times it doesn't. What if the source of the tension is unconscious? What if the source of the tension is the way we stand, breathe, or walk? Or what if the source of the tension comes from misalignment due to an accident? In each case, the author of Effortless Pain Relief gives you lots of tools for releasing tension in your body. Some of those tools involve changing the way you breathe. Some involve changing the way you stand, sit, or walk. Some involve learning how to identify and release habits of pushing through life that so many of us have. And some involve learning how to recognize unconscious emotional blocks. Ingrid Bacci does it all. She shows us how to let go of whatever is causing our pain. She shows you how to heal yourself. That's a great gift.