Hidden Within Us offers a pioneering understanding of the relationship between emotions and health, one rarely considered by physicians, patients, and research psychologists. Nearly all mind-body research and publications focus on the emotional distress we consciously experience, with limited results in terms of understanding and treating medical illnesses. Hidden Within Us brings attention instead to the burden of emotions kept from our conscious awareness by repression. Case histories and published evidence will convey to readers the rarely recognized value, and harm, of repression: Its value as an overlooked cornerstone of emotional resilience in many of us. Its harm in the unrecognized impact of repressed, unfelt emotions on our health, with relevance to many highly prevalent yet still inadequately explained and treated medical conditions. Our ability to repress emotions is a vital gift of evolution, but, silently, the emotions we've repressed do persist and can affect our health. This recognition can lead to new pathways to understanding, treatment, and healing. Dr. Mann is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at NY Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical College.
Many of the nearly 70 million Americans with hypertension (high blood pressure) would like to bring it under control through lifestyle changes such as losing weight, cutting back on salt, exercising, or reducing stress. But, like it or not, most will require medication to get their blood pressure where it needs to be. The good news is that we have many excellent blood pressure medications which, when prescribed wisely, can control hypertension in almost everyone. The bad news is that, despite good intentions, doctors are placing millions of people who have hypertension on medications, drug combinations, or doses that are wrong for them, with staggering consequences that include uncontrolled hypertension, higher risk for stroke and heart attack, avoidable side effects, and billions of wasted health care dollars. Here, Dr. Mann, a nationally recognized hypertension specialist, identifies the drugs most likely to have side effects, and those that can be used in their place. He describes the shortcomings of some of the new drugs, while also introducing readers to some excellent old drugs that are woefully underused as a result of the publicity blitz surrounding the new, expensive ones. He emphasizes the importance of matching the medication and dosage to the individual who will be taking them, and presents the overlooked clues that can tell us who should be on which drug (even an excellent drug can be the wrong one if it is given to the wrong person or in the wrong dose). Hypertension and You is directed at the more than 50 million Americans (including a majority of people over the age of 60) who are taking blood pressure medication. Many patients suspect they might be on the wrong medication, but don’t know enough to be sure. This book shows how medications can be prescribed more wisely to achieve better results and gives patients the knowledge they need to capably discuss their medications with their health care providers. Hypertension and You provides many ideas and approaches that will be new to readers, and also to many physicians, and which no other book offers. It’s the first book to make the case that something is terribly wrong with how doctors are prescribing drugs for this condition. It provides readers with better knowledge of the available medications, empowering them to work with their physician to get onto the medications that are right for them.
Coleridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures. This volume includes all the printed and manuscript versions of the Bristol lectures in chronological sequence. Among the contents are "Lectures on Revealed Religion, Its Corruption, and Its Political Views" and "Lecture on the Slave-Trade." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
After a steady increase following the global financial crisis, private nonfinancial sector leverage rose further during the COVID-19 on the back of easy financial conditions induced by unprecedented policy support. We investigate the empirical relationships between increased leverage, financial conditions, and macro-financial stability in a sample of major advanced and emerging market economies. We find that loose financial conditions contribute to leverage buildups and generate an intertemporal tradeoff: financial stability risk is lessened in the near term but exacerbated in the medium term. The tradeoff is amplified during credit booms, when debt service burdens are particularly high, or when the share of foreign currency debt is high in emerging markets. Selected macroprudential tools can arrest leverage buildups and mitigate the tradeoff.
SPIRIT and TRUTH is a thought-provoking and in-depth account of the origins, purpose, and destiny of mankind. As such, it provides a way to think about the basic truths from which many religious concepts originate as it explains beliefs commonly held but little understood. SPIRIT and TRUTH is a compilation of information from many sources including the Bible, the teaching of Paramahansa Yogananda, and the readings of Edgar Cayce, and the latest scientific discoveries that substantiate the information discussed. From it the reader will gain an idea of the nature of God, soul, mind, and will, the creation of matter and man, and the meaning of evolution. SPIRIT and TRUTH is about the underlying spiritual truths that are the basis of religious doctrines. Answers to most questions about Christian beliefs can be found here.
Aging Towards My Freedom is a collection of poems uniquely capturing the process of growing old from within the spectrum of four main themes: Aging with Freedom, The Art of Love, Eros and Acts of Defiance. As a departure from the Sartrean existential concept that all men are condemned by their freedom at birth the poet predicates his incremental freedom on the loss of it through the institutionalisation of society from childhood until he reaches the age of seniority. As a man becomes older he begins to regain that lost sense of total freedom and to instinctively defy traditional customs. This experiential awakening is heralded by the opening poem of the same title and strongly articulated later on by others such as Vulgar Man, Despicable Me, In no mood to be arsed, The Birthing of the Older Man Inside, Apologies Regretted and The Man who pretended to be a Goat. The Art of Love, which follows as the second theme in the collection, combines the poet's own personal early skills as a visual artist with his gradual progression into the more fluid literary sphere. Notably, this marriage of the two mediums can be easily deciphered in The Portrait and Tubes of Colors as well as The Word which plays upon the mythology of creation. The poems that specifically relate to love, What if I told you and Saying Goodbye to the Rain, are imbued with euphoria, sometimes wildly so, but at the same time pragmatically circumspect and remorseful with age. Eros is where the poet takes off the glove of prudence and boldly confronts the sexual longings of the older man, exemplifying his uncontrolled feelings and insatiable desire to be explosively young again with My Epiphanous One and to demonstrate his wiliness with I'm not sexy and Too Many Etceteras. Finally, the rebellious dimension underscoring the more radical and enlightened reaction of the older person is post modernist and openly critical of the-establishment by Breaking all the Rules and shouting Rebel! Rebel! And eventually Reversing to be hit by a Truck. In many respects, the process of growing old is similar to the rites of passage of a younger man except that it is paradoxically unfolding in the reverse direction much like the curious case of a Benjamin Button.
We all think of our blood pressure rising dramatically in times of anger or acute stress. The case isn't so simple. In fact the author's own extensive research and case studies have led him to the belief that high blood pressure has a deeper, hidden cause in many cases - problems from childhood and blocked emotions. A large percentage of sufferers who haven't fully had the cause of their high blood pressure diagnosed needs to get to the root of the problem with the help of therapy and this book explains the link between the mind and illness. Our unconscious feelings are the root of a whole host of disorders (chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma and colitis for example) and high blood pressure is at the forefront. The book explains why this disorder happens and discusses all drug treatments in addition.
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