Product Description

Contrary to popular belief, the most frequent causes of neuromuscular, joint, or skeletal pain can be traced to your lifestyle: unconscious habits that involve the way you breathe, stand, and move, and the way you store physical and emotional stress in your tissues. Given this fact, if you suffer from chronic pain, you may need to consider replacing expensive, often inefficient pain treatment with self-help methods for reversing the way physical, mental and emotional stresses affect your muscles, joints and bones. Effortless Pain Relief presents a unique mind-body programme for overcoming chronic pain developed by acclaimed alternative healthcare practitioner Dr Ingrid Bacci. In Effortless Pain Relief, you will...Find a simple explanation of how stress creates chronic pain; Discover clear, simple, and powerful self-help techniques for reducing and even eliminating pain; Develop greater awareness of your body and sensitivity to it; Learn how you can change your lifestyle habits by adopting body awareness techniques that eliminate tension; Citing numerous case studies from the thousands of patients she has helped during the past fifteen years, Dr Bacci also tells the extraordinary story of her own complete recovery a severe case of the chronic pain syndrome - fibromyalgia. The curative techniques through which she healed herself, and with which she has helped her thousands of clients achieve freedom from pain, are now available for everyone in Effortless Pain Relief, Groundbreaking and completely accessible, Effortless Pain Relief offers deceptively simple yet profoundly effective ways to leave pain behind, enhance your vitality, and find an effortless route to a pain-free life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #417175 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Ingrid Bacci, Ph.D., C.S.T., CMT is a complementary health care practitioner and a consultant to US corporations, health organizations and hospitals. She is a licensed Alexander Technique teacher and a Certified Craniosacral Therapist and teaches seminars on chronic pain management and stress reduction. She is also a guest lecturer at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and author of The Art of Effortless Living. She is currently training to teach Craniosacral therapy nationally for the Upledger Institute, the world's largest teaching institute of alternative healthcare modalities. She lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Customer Reviews

Definitely worth trying.
I borrowed this book from my local library and by the time I'd read the first couple of chapters I had ordered a copy from Amazon. The general principles are well-known - deep breathing and release of tension - but Dr Bacci's simple 'body scan' is new to me. I've had chronic pain in my hands for several months, there was no obvious medical condition and no treatment other than painkillers which helped up to a point. As I work with my hands I was beginning to think of taking early retirement because of the pain, and it was very limiting in many other ways. I already knew that tension and pain are linked and can become a vicious cycle - pain causes tension which causes more pain. Using Dr Bacci's method I discovered that my neck and shoulder muscles were in a permanent state of tension - I wasn't aware of this because it had become 'normal'. I followed her simple but detailed instructions and within hours the pain level had dropped. I also found out that I often hold my breath without realizing it, and that was contributing to the tension. It will take some time to change these habits which have developed over years, but I can feel the difference every day. Three days after starting to use this method I worked for more than 2 hours without any pain, the first time for more than 4 months. Each day there is a longer pain-free period as the release of tension becomes more automatic. Everyone who has chronic pain knows how tiring and depressing it is. Even when there is an underlying medical condition I think this would be worth trying as it might at least reduce the level of pain.