I am always looking to learn something. This book was a more difficult read as it has a lot of medical science in it but it was a good read and I learned a lot. The author was very sick with numerous chronic diseases. She had tried every medical drug and procedure but was still feeling terrible and in turn emotionally drained. She was in her thirties with two teenage children and did not want to continue to live with the chronic pain and fear and emotional stuff she was dealing with. She decided to take a totally different route and was completly surprised by the results. She sought out yoga, meditation, and acupuncture. She learned that with being able to change your mind you become healthier emotionally and then your body starts to heal, that there is a connection between our minds and our bodies. It was intruging information. Her father died suddenly when she was 12 and she learned how that early childhood trauma affected her body and may have played a part in why she was chronically sick. I really found the information fascinating. If you have chronic pain or childhood trauma this is a good book to read. I have gained some tools to help me calm my breathing when anxious, and things to put on repeat in my brain to retrain it. I also like that the author is skeptical every step of the way but is often surprised at her results. And since she is a medical science writer she always explains everything which I appreciate. "I don't want my Pain Channel to become the childhood pain that keeps them from the Life Channel-now, or twenty years from today. There has to be a better way." Donna knew that her illness was having a profound effect on her children and she didn't want to continue the path that they were on. "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind." Meaning we spend so much time not being present, we think about the past or what is to come. If we could spend more time just being in the moment we would find more joy. "We don't have to react to the thoughts and feelings inside our mind as if they are true." Emotions come and go and instead of spending precious thoughts on what we are feeling it is better to name the emotion and move on and find truth. "It's as if we're all just waiting for everyone else to smile first." A smile can change your day, be the first to smile at others and you might be surprised at the uplifing it will bring to your day. "...that by healing women one by one she'll help each to become more influential and powerful in her family and community-and from there, more women's healing energy will help to heal the world." Sometimes it just takes one, one healthy person to change the world. "It's never too late, as long as you're willing to ask the question of what might be getting in the way of creating the joyful life you want to live now." Healing and wholeness are never too late to achieve. God is the one who brings the complete healing but He does give us means to acheieving it.
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