Adam Heller's Zero Pain Now

by Adam B. Heller

The proven process to become pain-free without drugs, surgery, or physical therapy.

226 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2011

Reviews

[Kate]

In a 220 page book, pages 78 to 125 are success stories. And outside of the pages, he continues to splatter tales of how he's "cured" people in about every fourth page. His obnoxiously high self esteem is very much apparent.

The author spends far too much time discussing 3 things. How terrible his life was before his marriage. Success stories. And how amazing his life is on his second marriage. The book performs poorly in actually engaging the reader in "how to heal your back and body pain without drugs, surgery or physical therapy". Paraphasing he alleges to have all but cured a woman with just the power of his words over a Skype call. He discusses techniques hypothetically, and how great it is. As if 77 pages of tooting his own horn with reviews weren't enough, he continues to splatter them throughout the rest of the pages. This entire book is nothing more than a poorly written self promotion. Both to rub in his ex wife's face and any reader who cannot afford to sign up online.

After dealing with chronic pain for sometime, this book was a lousy dissapointment, with an undeserving title. Don't get excited. It's a patronising tale of "imagine a balloon" and "you're doing amazing" but within book lies nothing of value. I've read a lot of back pain books. Some of them great. This isn't one of them. I'm frustrated on behalf of people who look seeking help, only to waste money they could have contributed to actual help. It reads like a pyramid scheme, only without any product to offer.

In a nut shell, there's nothing of value. If you're looking for real change, try

1)Robin Mckenzie - Treat your own back/neck

2)Positive options for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) : self-help and treatment
Author: Juris, Elena.

3)Confronting Chronic Pain : a pain doctor's guide to relief
Author: Richeimer, Steven

Or basically anything else.

[Melinda]

This has been transformative for me. I read it at the same time that I'm dealing with a number of emotional stressors and some chronic pain in my feet. I realized while reading this book that I routinely push my emotions down inside, because having a mother freak out seriously disturbs my children. I've heard this expressed on someone's blog as, "Nice, nice, nice, Furious!" I am guilty of not acknowledging some of my emotions even to myself; this author says that repressing emotions leads the brain to distract the conscious mind from those emotions, in an effort to help, by focusing the attention on some body part or other, by reducing blood flow to that part, which causes pain. I've also read elsewhere that physical problems are related to emotions in such a way that if we treat only the physical symptoms, such as by treating a skin rash with ointment, that the physical problem will retreat inward to some other body part, causing potentially much worse damage that is not so easily treated. So I'm making a conscious effort to recognize and acknowledge my emotions; it's harder than it sounds! My 16yo daughter has very little trouble expressing her emotions and for years has been disciplined for storms of temper and lack of self-control; looking at her, I don't want to express my emotions. At the same time, our communication suffers from perceived not caring (because I don't storm as she does) and perceived selfishness (because she doesn't restrain her reactions as much as I would like). There has to be a middle ground.

[Isabelle Van]

Leest makkelijk maar gaat voor het overgrote deel over succesverhalen. Valt daarnaast veel in de herhaling.

[Dries De haes]

I do like the concept but the writing is terrible.

[Fatima Afridi]

Need to try the technique now.