Healing Your Heart, By Changing Your Mind

A Spiritual and Humorous Approach to Achieving Happiness

De: Dr. Jeffrey L. Gurian

Narrado por: Dr. Jeffrey L. Gurian

Have you ever felt you were more sensitive than you wanted to be?

Has anyone ever hurt your feelings, lied, or broken a promise to you?

Does the concept of "heart wounds" resonate with you on any level?

Does this statement make sense to you? You can't get better with the same mind that got you sick. You need new thoughts and new knowledge in order to be healed!

Imagine if you could learn how to eliminate things and thoughts that seem to be blocking you from achieving happiness.

Dr. Jeffrey Gurian shares in his book Healing Your Heart, By Changing Your Mind - A Spiritual and Humorous Approach to Achieving Happiness how he has learned through his own personal experience and years of study to overcome all the above and more.

Burdened with a severe stutter until he was in his 20's and beyond, seemingly unable to be helped by therapy, and combined with the confusion of A.D.D. and a bit of O.C.D. thrown in, he was faced with having to deal with that for the rest of his life.

His low self-esteem and lack of confidence told him he would never have the things that other people had. He engaged in negative thinking.

He felt he would never marry, have children, a successful career, or even something simple as having his own apartment!

Being "graced" with the knowledge that there was really nothing wrong with him, he worked on basically "taking his mind apart" and examining all his thoughts to find the negative ones that were not valid.

He used this technique to heal himself of his stutter and go on to achieve all the things he feared he would never have, becoming a husband, a father, and a homeowner.

He also became a cosmetic dentist, a clinical professor at a major New York university in the Oral Medicine/Oro-Facial Pain Department, a lecturer, a comedy writer for many big stars, a comedian, author, radio and TV personality, and a healer.

It's this journey and how he did it that he wants to share with you. And being one of the only doctors with a long, successful career in comedy has given him a very unique perspective on how to incorporate humor into your life.

In this book you will learn:

• How to overcome the fear that's stopping you from achieving your goals
• How to release the "heart wounds" that affect every decision you make
• How to examine your thoughts to discover which ones are not valid
• How to stay connected to your "inner child" and create your own "Happiness Center"
• How to reprogram your mind through the use of affirmations

©2017 Dr. Jeffrey L. Gurian (P)2018 Tantor

Beautiful wisdom and humor

This is a lovely book filled with beautiful wisdom and humor. Absolutely soul nourishing. Thank you Dr. Gurian, you are a gift.

A must read!

I’ll be listening to this one again. It was fascinating, uplifting, encouraging and laugh out loud hilarious. Sometimes a little corny with humorous cliches or spiritual concepts, but worth listening to the end. A heartfelt journey and I’m thankful this book exists.

Unlike anything I’ve read.

If you want a book that fits neatly into a category this one might not work for you. It straddles self-help, trauma therapy, spirituality, and humor (!)

He pulls it together nicely, though, through an unusual, rambling sort of account of one man’s journey. In a sense this rambling structure is one of his key ideas: “don’t be so uptight” he seems to be saying – “let yourself go” – I have never experienced anything quite like the flavor of fun and playfulness he bring to self-help –the “category” for his message might not exist.

Since I read a lot of memoirs, I found myself intrigued by the memoir-like aspects of this book. He was sharing his fascinating journey to discover these insights for himself. So listening to it as a sort of memoir provided a bit of a roadmap through his extensive list of self-help topics.

Some reviewers have expressed concern that his delivery is “flat.” I didn’t hear it that way. He has what is known in comedy as “deadpan humor.” So another requirement for enjoying this book is to give him a “playful ear”- if you tune into his ironic humor, (as I did) you might find the listening experience to be informative, uplifting, and inspiring.

I was expecting something more clinical.

It was ok. I was expecting something more clinical. I wouldn't recommend to anyone with deep rooted issues

This book helped me get over my narc ex! :)

Everything happens exactly when it’s meant to.,, something about the good dentist’s radical acceptance just got me out of the loop. Thanks ex!