The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, to Work, to Play-- Life in the Balance

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Hunter House, 1996 - 276 pages
Current wisdom dictates that anything that tastes, smells, or feels good can't be good for us. But pleasure is the way to health, not a temptation away from it. In The Pleasure Prescription, Pearsall gives the antidote for "delight dyslexia," his name for misreading of intensity for joy, accomplishment for worth, busyness for connection, and excitement for love.
 

Contents

The Pleasure Paradigm
9
PleasureThe Seventh Sense 12345
47
The ReEnchantment of Everyday Life
63
Cranial GSpots The Psychoneurology
79
Learning Aloha
97
The Cycle of ConnectionOvercoming
114
The Power of PleasantnessNo Bliss No Gain
128
The Magic of ModestySilencing the Self
145
Contents contd
181
Raising Blissful Families in Pressured Times
191
Laboring with Love Health and Balance in
202
Loving and Learning Through the Hard Times
212
Joy to the World Caring for Our Enchanted
224
Notes
233
Polynesian Glossary
254
Copyright

The Gift from GivingTry a Little Tenderness
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Paul Ka'ikena Pearsall, Ph.D., is a clinical education psychologist specializing in psychoneuroimmunology--the interactions between the brain, mind, body, and the immune system. A bestselling author, popular lecturer, and consultant, he gives presentations throughout the world and appears regularly on national television and radio talk shows. He and his wife divide their time between Michigan and Hawaii.

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