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Overview

Everyone wants to be happy. But what does that really mean? Increasingly, scientific evidence shows us that true satisfaction and well-being come only from within.

Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr. Weil's pioneering work in integrative medicine, the book suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of happiness, discusses the limitations of the biomedical model in treating depression, and elaborates on the inseparability of body and mind.

Dr. Weil offers an array of scientifically proven strategies from Eastern and Western psychology to counteract low mood and enhance contentment, comfort, resilience, serenity, and emotional balance. Drawn from psychotherapy, mindfulness training, Buddhist psychology, nutritional science, and more, these strategies include body-oriented therapies to support emotional wellness, techniques for managing stress and anxiety and changing mental habits that keep us stuck in negative patterns, and advice on developing a spiritual dimension in our lives. Lastly, Dr. Weil presents an eight-week program that can be customized according to specific needs, with short- and long-term advice on nutrition, exercise, supplements, environment, lifestyle, and much more.

Whether you are struggling with depression or simply want to feel happier, Dr. Weil's revolutionary approach will shift the paradigm of emotional health and help you achieve greater contentment in your life.

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Andrew Weil's 1995 Spontaneous Healing (9780804117944) challenged readers to discover their body's natural ability to maintain and itself. Spontaneous Happiness invites us to explore non-pharmaceutical strategies to enhance our mental health. As in his previous book, Dr. Weil draws on an array to integrative approaches; from meditation and mindfulness training to acupuncture, psychotherapy, Ayurvedic medicine, and Buddhism. He also offers prudent guidelines on the use of prescription drugs to alleviate depression and elucidates factors in emotional wellbeing including dietary, lifestyle, and behavior changes. Retraining and caring for our mind never felt so good; certain to be a bestseller.

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Weil’s enormously successful blend of mainstream and alternative therapies has earned him the reputation as guru of integrative medicine. Here, he develops a guide to help patients beat back the blues. It couldn’t come at a more opportune time. One in 10 people in the U.S., including children, takes antidepressants. Weil dissuades readers from expecting perpetual happiness, suggesting his program aims for “positive emotionality”—a far better destination than the roller-coaster ride between bliss and despair. He makes his case with what is becoming a signature formula: take the Western medicine your doctor prescribes, and then bend the “biomedical model” to incorporate alternative therapies, including supplements like omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, and herbal remedies; meditation and other “spiritual” strategies. He reiterates “limiting information overload” as an integral part of the program. Despite plugging his Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine—and predictable endorsements from patients who’ve hopped on the bandwagon—this is more than a New Age prescription for contentment. Weil’s revelations and insights from his own lifelong battle with depression lift this guide from a hip and clinical “how to” to a generous and heartfelt “here’s how.” (Nov.)
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Weil (founder & director, Arizona Ctr. for Integrative Medicine, Univ. of Arizona; Spontaneous Healing) writes openly of his midlife struggles with moderate depression and here offers a new approach to thinking about happiness. In Part 1, he argues that the basic assumptions of mainstream psychiatric medicine are obsolete and the biochemical model has limitations. He asserts that the integration of Eastern and Western psychology into a new approach will result in better management of depression and an increase in emotional intelligence. In Part 2, Weil offers advice and practical steps for caring for the body and mind, drawing on techniques from Ayurveda, Buddhism, acupuncture, mindfulness, and other disciplines, along with advice on lifestyle, behavior, dietary changes, and exercise. Weil provides a map for a journey based on the techniques he describes. Integrating these changes, he argues, will result in emotional resilience and well-being. VERDICT The case studies and practical guidance here can help readers make life-changing decisions.—Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn. Lib.
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Prolific health advisor Weil (Natural Health, Natural Medicine, 2011, etc.) offers a comprehensive roadmap for the prized path to true happiness.

Having addressed methods of maximizing the human body's potential for adapting, repairing and regenerating itself in Spontaneous Healing (1995), the author turns his compassionate eye for wellness toward the inner emotional mechanisms that elicit mood spectrum, from bliss to despondency. Weil believes that contentment, serenity and "calm acceptance" form the baseline "sea level" of emotional well-being, and that internal happiness is derived and achieved from within and not from forced, external "cultural insistence." The author's positive narrative covers a range of topics, including the body's vital emotional and physical interconnection and how diet affects bodily inflammation, and he offers sage recommendations on life balancing and incorporating spirituality into the fundamental goal of "optimum emotional health." Weil effectively positions himself into the context of his narrative, sharing epiphanies on personal loss, his history of anti-depressive therapy, a healthy diet schema and his struggle yielding to the "changing contours of my own emotions." Though the author devotes too much space to murky, scholastic sections on the history and science behind depression, his inspiring writing style breathes new life into rather mundane reminders on the benefits of exercise, sleep, meditation, compassion and holistic remedies. Complementing footnoted case studies, media articles, sound scientific scrutiny and social-media testimonials is the author's four decades of clinical research. Weil provides sensible, accessible advice several tiers above general marketplace offerings.

Immensely beneficial information for those seeking a self-galvanized life lift.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316129442
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 11/8/2011
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 9,445
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Andrew  Weil
Andrew Weil

Andrew Weil, MD, is the founder and program director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. He is the author of many bestselling books, including Spontaneous Healing, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, and others.

Biography

Since the early ‘70s, Andrew Weil has been bucking conventional wisdom about healthy living.

Weil began his career with a bang -- or maybe just a puff -- in The Natural Mind, a book containing ideas that remain controversial today. Most famously, it endorsed the idea of "stoned thinking" (induced not only by drugs but also by hypnosis, meditation, etc.) and identified a bias in traditional studies about mind-altering drugs. The book was fortified by Weil's own experience studying and taking various psychotropic agents, and while it suggested that non-chemical experiences were healthier, it also bore open criticism of American drug policy. Weil continued his exploration of altered mental states with The Marriage of the Sun and Moon and From Chocolate to Morphine (coauthored with Winifred Rosen).

In his next three titles -- Health and Healing, Natural Health, Natural Medicine, and Spontaneous Healing -- Weil turned to illness and alternative therapies, educating readers on then relatively unknown options such as homeopathy, herbal medicine, cranial therapy and other unconventional approaches. The fact that Weil was a Harvard-trained doctor lent his writings credibility and popularity with an ever-widening readership, even as he earned a somewhat heretical status in the world of mainstream medicine.

Some of Weil's views might rile practitioners of traditional medicine -- he has suggested that certain conventional treatments do more harm than good -- but Weil has never advocated abandonment of the medical establishment. Rather, he promotes integrative medicine: an approach to health that embraces nontraditional healing methods and takes the mind and spirit into account when assessing and treating problems. In response to Dr. Arthur Relman's assault in the New Republic, charging that assertions in Weil's books that lacked scientific backing, Weil responded on his web site, "If I had dismissed the successes I saw with [cranial therapy, for example] as ‘anecdotes,' we would not be in a position to take the next step and gather the data that Dr. Relman wants to see. It is important to note that paradigm shifts, in medicine as in other fields, are not quiet affairs. They occasion much screaming and kicking." (To both of the doctors' credits, they engaged in a public debate at the University of Arizona following Relman's much-discussed critique, minus the screaming and kicking.) Whatever the future holds for certain alternative approaches, it is a testament both to Weil's popularity and the growing interest in his ideas that studies of such practices have begun to win funding and attention.

Eight Weeks to Optimum Health was the most complete synthesis yet of Weil's ideas about holistic health and also helped cement his status as a health guru. Unlike most "diets" that focused mostly on meal plans and magical eating formulas, Weil's program is about a balance of nutrients, herbs, exercise, and mental salves such as turning off the news or keeping fresh flowers around. In particular, Weil became a well known expert on the growing field of herbal supplements.

Recently, Weil teamed with Rosie Daley -- Oprah's former personal chef – to create The Healthy Kitchen. The book operates on a bit of push-and-pull between Daley and Weil, with "Andy" offering substitute ingredients to some of Rosie's recipes. As with Weil's other tomes, The Healthy Kitchen does not operate on draconian edicts, offering options for individuals instead.

Good To Know

Weil is director and founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine of the College of Medicine, University of Arizona. Also, his Polaris Foundation advances the cause of integrative medicine through public policy, education, and research.

Weil's parents owned a millinery store in Philadelphia, and his mother fostered his interest in botany. "When you grow up in a row house, there's very limited opportunity to grow stuff, but my mother knew some things from her mother, who was the one with the real green thumb," he told My Generation magazine. "And she did introduce me to growing bulbs in the house, and we had a little plot of ground to garden. That stuff fascinated me. And I always dreamed about the day when I could have enough space to do it."

Weil's undergraduate focus was ethnobotany, which focuses on the uses of certain plants by various cultures and ethnicities. His thesis title: "The Use of Nutmeg as a Psychotropic Agent." Under a fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs, Weil traveled from 1971-75 throughout Central and South America to investigate cultural psychotropics and healing. Many of his findings from this time are collected in The Marriage of the Sun and Moon.

Weil lives in Arizona "by pure chance," he told HealthWorld Online. His car broke down in the mid-1970s, and it took so long to fix that he ended up staying in Tucson.

    1. Hometown:
      Tucson, Arizona
    1. Date of Birth:
      June 8, 1942
    2. Place of Birth:
      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    1. Education:
      B.A. in Biology, Harvard University, 1964; M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1968
    2. Website:

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 14, 2011

    Depression reconsidered:

    Anyone seriously interested in this topic should read Robert Whitaker's 2010 book "Anatomy of an epidemic." After that, Weil provides the multiple strategies useful for becoming positively engaged with living.

    5 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 10, 2011

    Very well written

    I read it but need to read it again since it's a bit drawn out, however everything the author recommends is workable, IF one follows his suggestion.
    Unfortunately it's very hard to control ones thoughts in real life, but one has to work on it to succeed. I am still working on controlling my off and on depression with the help of this book.
    I highly recommend it to anyone who wants peace in their life.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 6, 2011

    Not Worth Your Time

    This book was touted very highly as something new and better than the average self help book. In fact, it is just that. I should have learned long ago that when an author writes more than one self help book, the ones past the first are just more of the same.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 17, 2012

    Extremely helpful

    I've read a few things Dr. Weil has written and seen him interviewed on television. He is very knowledgeable and sensible in every health topic he responds to. Spontaneous Happiness has been most enlightening to me since I associate with people who have "problems being happy" for one reason or another...it helpful for me to know what they are going through mentally and try to be kind and understanding. I recommend this book to everyone.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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    Posted December 11, 2011

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2012

    Practical, doable solutions for feeling better

    For many years I have suffered from mild to moderate depression. I found the scientifically based information in this book to be extremely helpful. Dr Weil provides many ideas based in sound research for feeling better. I started with two of the easiest; increased Omega 3 and increased moderate physical activity. Over the course of several months, I have been able to incorporate additional useful suggestions. This book is not a meant to be a magic pill, but rather a set of useful tools that can be tailored by an individual based on what works for them.

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    Posted March 25, 2012

    Excellent information

    Inspiring! Can't wait to read more!

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  • Posted February 29, 2012

    Fantastic

    I am extremely grateful I had the opportunity to come across this book. It captured my attention from the start and I picked it up everyday to read after (and still use it for reference often).

    I love how to-the-point he is about depression in general. I've read many sources about depression, saying you can ban it forever- but this book is different, and teaches you depression happens, and how to fight it and overcome it.

    The tips and advice, as well as the plans created are wonderful and ones I do my best to follow everyday. I've never dealt with major depression, but even when the slightest amount of stress or sadness shows up, I've used his methods and have dramatically noticed a difference in my everyday mood. I even often find myself quoting this book to others. I can't recommend it enough.

    This book has changed many little things in my life and I'm happier because of it. You don't have to be dealing with major depression to pick this up and read it- it's for everybody and I highly encourage you to read it and try it out.

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