Candace B. Pert - Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d

ALSO BY CANDACE B. PERT, PH.D.

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pert, Candace B.
Everything you need to know to feel go(o)d / Candace B. Pert ; with Nancy Marriott.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4019-1059-4 (hardcover)
ISBN-10: 1-4019-1059-9 (hardcover)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4019-1060-0 (tradepaper)
ISBN-10: 1-4019-1060-2 (tradepaper)
1. Medicine, Psychosomatic. 2. Mind and body. 3. Consciousness. 4. Self-care, Health. I. Title.
RC49.P443 2006

Hardcover: ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-1059-4 ISBN 10: 1-4019-1059-9
Tradepaper: ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-1060-0 ISBN 10: 1-4019-1060-2

09 08 07 06 4 3 2 1
1st printing, October 2006

Printed in the United States of America

This book is dedicated to my husband, Michael Roland Ruff,
who is the co-creator of my dreams and parent of my children.

As a child Michael saw an angel who told him that
he would do something important for the world.
I am grateful to God for bringing him into my life.

Contents

First impressions are lasting. Ill never forget finally meeting this brilliant woman scientist who was responsible for putting mind-body medicine on the map, at a wellness conference in 1996. For several years, wed traveled in the same circles. Id originally contacted her when I was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1990 and sought holistic or mind-body-spirit treatment for a disease that traditional medicine had little to offer by way of a cure.

Id been intrigued by seeing her work on Bill Moyerss PBS miniseries Healing and the Mind, so I invited Candace to join me at the University of Wisconsin, where I was moderating a panel of experts speaking on spirituality and health. I stopped by her hotel room to get acquainted in person and talk about the program for the opening day. I was an initiate in this brand-new world of medical science. Just as Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, and Loretta Lynn had inspired me in music, Candace was my female mentor in psychoneuroimmunology.

When Candace opened the hotel door, I was blasted with a gust of exuberance. She had none of the stiff, dour personality qualities that I expected of a highly trained, world-class neuroscientist. Three hours later, after laughing most of the time, we had bonded.

Bottom line: Candace Pert is a scientist with heart, a woman who cares and who knows God is her source, even in the laboratory. Shes down-to-earth and not afraid to tell it like it is, to walk her talk. Shes a living example of what it means to get out of black and white and start living in Technicolor. In this book, she shows you how to get out of your comfort zone and take riskswhich is the only way your life is going to be what youve always wanted it to be.

What she found under her microscope is that your feelings are really chemicals that can help or hurt you. Neuropeptides are biological messengers released by the brain; sent all throughout the body; and accepted by receptor sites located on the cells of every tissue, organ, and body part you have. This means that your physical self is constantly registering every word that you believe and say. In this book, Candace demonstrates how your consciousness changes your body, your health, and even your environment. When you bring real awareness into your everyday life, you begin to heal yourself first and then your world. As you expand and get better on a personal level, the positive changes will be reflected onto those around you. Like the ripple effect when a pebble is dropped into a still pond, as you grow in consciousness, the mass state of mind shifts accordingly.