Product Description

Endorphins are the miracle hormones. Found in everyone, they kill pain, provide the foundation for good health and create the physical sensations of pleasure. They are responsible for the euphoria of athletes and the pleasure of lovemaking. In THE ENDORPHIN EFFECT Dr William Bloom, Britain's leading holistic teacher, presents a major breakthrough in the field of healthcare and personal development. He reveals a revolutionary method that enables you to produce endorphins for vitality and a positive mood whenever you want, even when exhausted or in a crisis. Discover how to use THE ENDORPHIN EFFECT for an easy and effective programme of healthcare, healing and self-improvement. Use it to boost your enjoyment of life, build good health, improve your relationships at home and at work, and enhance your performance in every aspect of your life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54622 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
'THE ENDORPHIN EFFECT is practical, powerfully inspirational and immediately applicable to just about anybody. The techniques it teaches can improve health on both an emotional and physical level while enhancing the quality of your life. I love this book, in no small part because of the wisdom and deep love of life which pour forth from every chapter.' Leslie Kenton, author of AGELESS AGEING and ENDLESS ENERGY 'A brilliant, mature and enlightening book. This superb text provides engaging insights into the awesome power of endorphins and the effect they have upon our emotions and higher states of consciousness.' Dr Caroline Myss, author of ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT and WHY PEOPLE DON'T HEAL

About the Author
Dr William Bloom is considered by many to be Britain's leading holistic teacher. - He co-founded Alternatives and is the founder of the Spiritual Freedom Network and the educational consultancy Holistic Partnerships, which is active in promoting Endorphin Effect techniques amongst organisations and individuals. - He has appeared on, and acted as a consultant for, numerous television and radio programmes. - He is the author and editor of many bestselling books including The Holistic Revolution, Psychic Protection (Piatkus) and Working with Angels, Fairies and Nature Spirits (Piatkus).

Customer Reviews

Genuinely groundbreaking and practical
William Bloom describes his book as an ambitious project, bringing together 4 fields - physical healthcare, psychology, spiritual development and the energy medicine traditions of the east - something that has not been done before. He has managed that project with some style, and the result is an extremely practical and genuinely groundbreaking work.

The opening chapters provide some scientific grounding for the exercises that follow. You might be surprised to learn that endorphins, the natural opiates of the body, providing feelings of pleasure and consequent relief from pain, were not discovered until 1975. Even then, it was believed that they were only produced by the brain, until in the 1980s it was discovered that endorphins are secreted throughout the whole body. Moreover, they are produced by other animals too. Even single cell organisms produce endorphins. Pleasure is an integral part of the universe. Happiness and pleasure, says William Bloom, are built into the biological foundation of the human body.

The exercises which make up the main body of the book are designed to maximise the happiness and pleasure in our day-to-day lives. Although the names for these exercises come across as a bit "new age", don't be put off. Without exception they are easy and, as you might expect, extremely pleasurable. Even trying them for the first time, I found myself carrying a healthy reserve of "inner smile" into my day.

William Bloom has spent many years teaching and developing the Endorphin Effect before writing this book, and it shows in the completeness of his approach. Every conceivable contingency is provided for, including an honest appraisal of the difficulties you might face using the exercises in real life.

On the down side, the last chapter opens out into some rather waffly philosophising which you might take or leave as suits your taste. That said, William Bloom's book, in the main, distils the "waffle" of new age into a series of powerful and practical techniques that will undoubtedly make your days more pleasurable and your challenges less stressful.

A jewel of immeasurable worth
There is something refreshingly new contained within the pages of this book. What William Bloom writes about makes perfect sense and triggered a response from my heart which said "yes, he's got it right" - I was also inspired to go out and buy four more copies to give to friends (even before I had finished my copy).

I write as a professional natural scientist who has been involved in exploring my own growing and healing since 1975 (anybody remember Quaesitor in London?). Don't be put off by mention of Endorphins: it is not a biochemistry text. It was research on endorphins that gave William Bloom the information he needed to formulate his new approach to physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing but I would hazard to say that, now he has made the connection, the book could almost have been written without a single chemical name. As has been mentioned by another reviewer, there is a lot of wisdom in this book. Most importantly it presents a simple and effective methodology that, in my view, does represents a genuine breakthrough.

disappointed
I was reading it because I wanted to understand the source of the sensations I experience when I do Qi Gong. The title is misleading as less than 10% of the book seems to be about endorphins. The rest is about Qi or energy fields. Some on the material on energy is consistent with physics eg quantum fields. Some is wrong eg magnetic fields don't hold the planets in orbit. Sometimes there were unsupportede jumps between the physics and the "bliss fields", eg energy in the universe = life.

The book will appeal to those with spiritual interests. But don't expect to learn much about endorphin.