The 15 Minute Heart Cure: The Natural Way to Release Stress and Heal Your Heart in Just Minutes a Day

by John M. Kennedy, Jason Jennings

From a top cardiologist-simple stress-reduction techniques to prevent and reverse the four major kinds of heart disease The 15 Minute Heart Cure shows how stress can harm our cardiovascular system and offers practical, easy ways to dispel stress naturally, without spending a lot of time or money. It explains the stress-heart disease connection for the four major types of heart disease-heart attack, arrythmia, congestive heart failure, and cardiac valve disease-and equips you with the author's proven BREATHE technique to help you stop stress in its tracks. Don't let stress hurt your heart. Unleash the healing benefits of The 15 Minute Heart Cure and discover the wonderful sense of focus and calm it will bring to your life.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published December 15, 2009

Reviews

[Jekabs Saulitis · Rating 2 out of 5]

The same technic repeated over.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

John Kennedy, MD/ Jason Jennings wrote this how to book on using breathing techniques and positive mental imagery to reduce stress to the heart and circulatory system. The heart beat increases with inhalation and decreases with exhalation. His system uses a seven count exhalation thru the mouth after inhalation via the nose.

Various waterfall scenes are visualized to accompany the breathing exercise. The exercise trys to vary the heart rate, a good sign for a cardiologist. People get so stressed out that they become rigid with high blood pressure and a constant high heart rate. Add alcohol and salt or a little road rage and bingo a vascular "event". Most hospital admissions on people over 60 are related to strokes or heart attack. Many excellent examples, along with coaching on how to get an emotional ramp up (example: road rage) to a conscious level, where a decision can be made to try some other interpretation.

I think most of these approaches are well known and what is added to a standard yoga and common sense approach to life is marginal.

[Patrik Hallberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title got me really interested and made me want to read the book. But the title is better than the rest of the book. The basic concept is a technique called BREATHE.
B - Begin
R - Relax
E - Envision
A - Apply
T - Treat
H - Heal
E - End
The technique is based around breathing and envisioning different situations like a flowing river and connecting that to a healthy strong heart. In the book several heart diseases is discussed and then a specific BREATHE scenario is gone through. I think the book is much more relevant for those that have gone through a heart disease and need an alternative treatment to avoid it from happing again.

[Rachelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I could have read 3-4 chapters and that would have been enough. I don't have any particular heart condition and this book really focuses on specific conditions. I liked the chapters about stress and the BREATHE exercise. I have started practicing that exercise and can see a difference in my stress levels. It's not a bad book, just a lot of stuff I really didn't need to read.

[Janet · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very useful book. I learned a lot about stress and my heart.