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This book will be one someone could work through again and again and make more progress towards a balanced life each time. They will find a balance between mind, body and spirit. This was an amazing book that anyone looking to live life and live it to the full could benefit from reading.
Great book to get you up and moving, watching your weight and your health with faith as your base. Great motivation!
I wasn’t expecting to have a plan laid out before and to have blanks I could go through and figure out what I needed help with. I really really liked this format for this style of book — it puts it in an action plan at your finger tips and gives you a timeline to finish it! Talk about setting people up for success!
I previously read Dr. Morris’ book Health Care You Can Live With and was quite impressed with it. Let me say this one I really loved! I was actually surprised – I wasn’t expecting it to be so helpful!
I wasn’t expecting to have a plan laid out before and to have blanks I could go through and figure out what I needed help with. I really really liked this format for this style of book — it puts it in an action plan at your finger tips and gives you a timeline to finish it! Talk about setting people up for success!
— Amydeanne
Welcome, from Dr. Scott Morris, Founder of the Church Health Center 4
Week 1 Eddie's Story 6
Beginnings
Direction
Goals
Expectations
First Steps
One Step Forward, One Step Back
Celebration!
Week 2 Frank's Story 34
Habits
Triggers
Cleaning Up
Attitudes
Wholeness
Enjoyment
Thanksgiving
Week 3 Iva's Story 62
Balance
Grace
Balanced Senses
Balancing Outside the Comfort Zone
Our Purpose
Change
The Halfway Point
Week 4 Rev. Clark's Story 90
God's Creation
The Sun
The Air
Water
Our Bodies
Community
Our Spirit
Week 5 Kathy's Story 118
Varieties on the Journey
God with Us
The Seasons Sounds
Sight
A Changed Life
Healing
Week 6 Deb's Story 146
Our Conversion Stories
Knowing Ourselves
The Next Steps
Fellow Travelers
Forty Days!
Review
Looking Ahead
Recommended Reading and Resources 174
Dr. Scott Morris and the staff of Church Health Center of Memphis have collaborated in producing this incredible "40 Days to Better Living" plan for discovering optimal health. The book is made up of forty chapters designed to be read and implemented over a period of forty days. Each week introduces a featured true-to-life story illustrating how to put into practice the suggested guidelines on your personal journey to optimal health. Each chapter includes a "Morning Reflection" an "Evening Wrap Up" and "Daily Practices" which are made up of suggestions titled: Faith Life, Medical, Movement, Work, Emotional, Family and Friends, and Nutrition. These practices include self examination questions, practical action steps, and exercise suggestions. A few lined spaced are provided for journal notes, progress reports, or reminders. Each two page spread includes colorful pictures which add a visual impact to one of the "Daily Practice" issues. I plan to recommend "40 Days to Better Living Optimal Health" to my family and friends from the "Gen X" generation right up to the "Senior Crowd." The cover, content, and format of this book make it a perfect gift for any occasion. I received a complimentary review copy from a representative of the author in exchange for a fair and honest review. The opinions expressed are my own. As reviewed on Midwest Book Review.
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Posted July 13, 2011
40 Days To Better Living : Optimal Health by Dr. Scott Morris is exactly what we need to jump-start a new way of living. This is the first book in this series. Although this is a 40 day plan, this book could easily be made into an 80 or 120 day plan.
This book is divided into six weeks, each beginning with a testimony of someone who made dramatic lifestyle changes which also brought health benefits. There is a daily Morning Reflection and Evening Wrap-Up, with devotionals and scripture included. There is room provided to briefly journal, answering specific questions posed by the author in the areas of :
?Faith Life
?Medical
?Movement
?Work
?Emotional
?Family and Friends
?Nutrition
If you believe that the suggested assignments are too involved to accomplish in one day, you could do two or three and stretch each weekly chapter into two or three weeks. This is the first book I have read in this format, health plan in a devotional format. The inside is as bright and colorful as the cover, with much to hold your attention. This book is small enough to carry in your purse to read as you are waiting. I enjoy Dr. Morris style of writing. He is always very encouraging in a non-preachy style, offering many suggestions to accomplish a goal. I know from reading other works by him, that he promotes natural and medical remedies when necessary, but strongly promotes lifestyle change as the best way to improve our body and spirit. If you are ready to change, this inexpensive book, at $7.99, will show you how.
Dr. Scott Morris is a family practice physician and ordained United Methodist minister who founded the Church Health Center in Memphis, Tennessee. The center, formed in 1987 to provide quality health care for working, uninsured people, has grown to become the largest faith-based clinic of its type in the United States with more than 36,000 patient visits per year.
Overview
You want to feel better—and 40 Days to Better Living: Optimal Health provides clear, manageable steps to get you there, through life-changing attitudes and actions. If you’re ready to really live better, select one or more elements of the 7-step Model for Healthy Living—Faith, Medical, Movement, Work, Emotional, Family and Friends, and Nutrition—and follow the 40-day plan to improve your life, just a bit, day by day. With plenty of practical advice, biblical encouragement, and stories of real people who’ve taken...