Susan Smith Jones - The Joy Factor: 10 Sacred Practices for Radiant Health

Incredibly practical and uplifting, this book shows simple and proven ways out of an unhealthy, stressful lifestylefrom what you eat, how you exercise, and what you think and feel to a balanced life abounding with joy, vitality, and sacredness. The Joy Factor will have a major impact on your life.

JOHN ROBBINS, AUTHOR OF Diet for a New America

The Joy Factor contains all of the essential ingredients to live our very best livesphysically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Susan has a gift for taking complex research, scientific studies, and personal experiences and distilling them down to the most essential, empowering, and practical level. I especially appreciate her personal stories and how she brings insight to life lessons we all need to learn in order to live our highest potential. Susan's book will enrich your experience of living, too!

VICTORIA MORAN, AUTHOR OF Creating a Charmed Life

The Joy Factor is an exquisitely beautiful book, with profound depth, sound health advice, and practical application techniques that will touch your heart and transform your life forever. Sensational!

ELLEN TART-JENSEN, PHD, AUTHOR OF Health Is Your Birthright

The perfect blend of modern research and ageless wisdom. Susan Smith Jones's sound and practical guidance, along with the inspiring personal stories about her life and work with her clients, will help everyone awaken to a new understanding of what living fully, celebrating life, and creating vibrant health are all about. The Joy Factor will touch your heart and change your life for the better.

ALEXANDRA STODDARD, AUTHOR OF You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life

This combination book/workbook is sure to be a welcome companion for anyone seeking to bring vitality and radiant health into their lives. Whether you are 18 or 88, consider this required reading for bringing peace and high-level wellness to your life. I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone!

NEAL BARNARD, MD, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE; AUTHOR OF Breaking the Food Seduction

What an absolute joy to read. This thought-provoking, beautifully written, and empowering book breaks through the barriers of conventional health, healing, and medicine and presents an innovative and highly effective program for creating radiant health, youthful vitality, and a balanced life.

REBECCA LINDER HINTZE, AUTHOR OF Healing Your Family History

I always look forward to Susan's books, and this one was well worth the wait. The Joy Factor inspires and empowers the reader to seize the day while providing a well-conceived blueprint for creating a life filled with health, happiness, joy, and peace. A superb book.

GABRIEL COUSENS, MD, AUTHOR OF There Is a Cure for Diabetes

For more than thirty years, Dr. Susan Smith Jones has been living and teaching the material presented in The Joy Factor. She has superbly distilled the most essential issues and created a beautifully-written guide that's easy to understand and, more importantly, easy to apply in our lives. Once I started reading, I could hardly put it down. Read this life-changing, sagacious book.

DIANNE WARREN, AUTHOR OF Vegetable Soup/The Fruit Bowl

What a magnificent book! Be sure to check out the workbook at the back, which invites us to look within ourselves to examine and understand more fully our beliefs, attitudes, heart-feelings, needs, desires, and our highest vision for ourselves and the world. This section made a profound difference in my life and will doubtless change your life for the better, too. I am recommending it to all of my friends, family, and on my radio shows.

NICK LAWRENCE, RADIO/TV TALK SHOW HOST AND PERSONALITY

You will want to add this glorious, delightful book to your home library, keep it front and center, and refer to it often. You will thank your lucky stars that you have this book as your guide to creating optimal wellness, living fully, and celebrating life. Keep several copies on hand, because you will want to give them as gifts. Kudos to Susan!

ANITA FINLEY, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST AND PUBLISHER OF Boomer Times

Be Healthy~Stay Balanced

Choose to Live Peacefully

Conquer Colds & Allergies

Culinary Herbs: Discover the Healing Secrets in Your Spice Rack

Detoxify & Rejuvenate

Healthy, Happy & Radiant... at Any Age

EveryDay HealthPure & Simple

Health Bliss

Herbs: Nature's Medicine Chest

Living Active & Pain-Free

Living on the Lighter Side

Natural Stress Solutions

Recipes for Health Bliss

The Purative Kitchen

The Healing Power of NatureFoods

Wired to Meditate

Vegetable Soup / The Fruit Bowl (with Dianne Warren)

First published in 2011 by Conari Press,

An imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

With offices at:

500 Third Street, Suite 230

San Francisco, CA 94107

www.redwheelweiser.com

Copyright 2011 by Susan Smith Jones

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

ISBN: 978-1-57324-478-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

Cover and text design by Linda Kosarin / TheArtDepartment.biz

Typeset in Granjon

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Printed in the United States of America

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This book is dedicated, in loving memory, to my beautiful mother, June. Through her invincible courage, resplendent spirit, and shining example, she taught me how to love deeply, live fully, follow my heart, practice kindness, offer compassion, and celebrate life. She will always be my most positive role model and the person I most want to mirror.

To my dear friend and executive editor at Red Wheel Weiser, Caroline Pincus: This book would not have been possible without your support and encouragement. You took my vision and dream and helped me turn it into a glorious writing experience from the beginning to the end. Your guidance is invaluable, and your loving friendship is immeasurable to me. You are one of my earth angels.

To the folks at Red Wheel Weiser: Jan Johnson, Michael Kerber, Bonni Hamilton, Greg Brandenburgh, Dennis Fitzgerald, Amber Guetebier, Susie Pitzen, Lisa Trudeau, Rachel Leach, Nicole Deneka, Martha Knauf, Jordan Overby, Jim Warner, Lauren Rouleau, Debbie Huffman, Angie Martinez, Hillary Peacock, Sylvia Hopkins, Judi O'Donnell, Colleen Doheny, Alex Huffman, and Devin Bebout. Everyone has been a joy to work with and always so supportive. Thank you for your help in making our book an international bestseller.

A special thanks also to Linda Kosarin for the cover and interior design.

To my friends and extended family who have supported me in this project from day one: Betty Wetzel, Bob Deskins, Ralph Rudser, Ginny Swabek, Junia Chambers, Jackie Benoit, Edwin Basye, Bonnie Ross, Helen Guppy, Colleen and Dave, Lisa Ray, and David Craddock. Your loving kindness, thoughtful conversation, and guidance throughout the process are deeply appreciated.

You'll notice that I write about my mother, June, and my grandmother, Fritzie. I am so blessed to have these positive role models guiding me to this day in all my work and throughout my life. Follow your dreams, they always used to say to me, and this book is definitely a dream come true. Thank you.