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Choosing Brilliant Health shows us how to make very reality-based choices about personal health. This book is so basic, and with so much common sense, that it should be part of every elementary school curriculum. Not only is it grounded in the science gleaned from recent studies about mind-body medicine, but also in the real-life stories of diverse people from all over the world. Choosing Brilliant Health works!

David Roche, author of The Church of 80% Sincerity

The brilliant choice is to read this book! Choosing Brilliant Health powerfully reveals that health is a verb, not just an office visit or medical treatment. The book is a wonderfully constructed guide for something already within each of us: intentionally chosen and actively lived mind, body, and spirit.

Jody Hereford, former President of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Choosing Brilliant Health reinforces why personal accountability is such an important key to success in every aspect of our lives. With their inspiring and practical book, Foster and Hicks make a vital contribution to the understanding of using positive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to promote well-being.

John G. Miller, author of QBQ! The Question Behind the Question and Flipping the Switch

Greg Hicks and Rick Foster have written a unique, important, and wonderful book for anyone, including anyone in healthcare, who instinctively knows that attitude is essential to healing and happiness but needs a roadmap. The tools are so simple and the authors have made them powerful by linking them to those who have thrived despite challenges.

Elizabeth Summy, Executive Director of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management

I love this book. Its lively, fun, and filled with optimism and possibility on every page. Foster and Hicks tie together brilliantly the body and the mind in a guide to chart our course to improved health. No matter what your present state of well being, it will be raised by reading this wonderful book. I think Choosing Brilliant Health has every type covered!

Suzanne Brue, President of the Vermont Association for Psychological Type International and author of The 8 Colors of Fitness

To our parents:

Diana and Harold Foster, whose skill at growing older with grace is surpassed only by their generosity of spirit.

Lenore and Don Hicks, loving and involved parents and grandparents, whose value of family has enhanced the lives of many.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Were fortunate to have a big, wonderful, exuberant, and very intentional community of colleagues and friends who contributed to the Brilliant Health journey in their own unique ways.

From the medical and research world, wed like to thank:

The Mayo Clinic, which gave our work and research such extraordinary support, especially the Department of Nursing whose leadership team has more letters after their names than can be listed here: Doreen Frusti, Jackie Attlesey-Pries, Sharon Tucker, Diane Twedell, and the entire NEC team; and the Department of Medicine: Drs. Brent Bauer, David Rosenman, Randal Thomas, Jeanne Huddleston; and Kristin Vickers-Douglas, PhD; Jeff Sloan, PhD; and Natasha Matt-Hensrud.

New York University Medical Center, especially Bernard Birnbaum, MD, Vice Dean and Chief of Hospital Operations, who was both generous and influential in our thinking about the kind of medical perspective we needed; Elizabeth Duthie, PhD, Director of Patient Safety, who is an innovator, a bottomless well of information, and a medical angel to us and our families; and the team at the Office of Development and Learning, who have been fun and wonderful partners, in particular Richard Woodrow, Lori Burkhoff, and Martin Costa.

Duffy Newman, Director of the Health Research and Educational Trusts Fellowship Programs, and her dedicated staff, who have facilitated our work as faculty with top medical professionals from around the world.

Aileen Killen, PhD, currently Director of the Patient Safety Program and formerly Director of Perioperative Nursing at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center; and David Jaques, MD, Vice President of surgical services at Barnes-Jewish Hospitalfriends and colleagues for many years, who gave us a rare entre into the world of surgery and surgical teams.

The Actors Fund of America, a terrific organization that gave us the opportunity to conduct our first Brilliant Health workshops for the chronically and terminally ill over the course of two years, especially Barbara Davis, Keith McNutt, Carol Mannes, Roz Gilbert, Tamar Shapiro, and Joe Benincasa.

Drs. Mmbara Nkhangweni, Harry Moultrie, and Angela Maloka, RN, all specialists in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, who hosted us at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg as presenters to one of the most resilient and perceptive groups of medical specialists weve ever met and who taught us about things we had never imagined.

Roger Schimberg, a new friend, who took us under his wing in South Africa, navigated the back roads with us, and introduced us to the unforgettable array of AIDS organizations with whom we had the honor to work.

Mary Sue Moore, PhD in Clinical Psychology with a research specialty in the effects of emotional trauma on brain development, who arrived right in the heart of our writers despair, bringing both her incredible knowledge of the brain and dark chocolates.

Dr. Catherine Bannerman, Medical Director of Palliative Care and Hospice at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and members of her staff including Dana Hodgdon, MA, and Mary Carolla, RN, who shared years of perceptions about end-of-life care during a series of moving interviews.

Catherine OBrien, PhD, Assistant Professor at the School of Education, Health, and Wellness, and Rhonda MacCormick, Director of the Health Research Centre, both at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, who opened up exciting research opportunities and brought us together with the Mikmaq Tribal Elders to exchange happiness philosophies and ideas.

Diane Tedeschi, Michael Mutter, and Linda Malkin, at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, a dynamic trio of experts on patient care, quality, and risk management, respectively, who have become great friends and advocates.

Alan H. Rosenstein, MD, Vice President and Medical Director of VHA West Coast, and Patricia Tyler, Director of Performance Improvement, VHA, who shared ideas and came through with irreplaceable introductions.

James Baraz, founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and creator of the Awakening Joy class, who took our happiness model in entirely new directions, and, along with Edith Politis, introduced us to the Realm of the Hungry Ghost.

Sarah Hue-Williams and Emily Morrow, cofounders of the Patient Coach in Sydney, Australia.

Tom Miller and his staff at the National Research Center in Boulder, Colorado, who brought our research statistics to life.

From the realm of writing, we thank:

John Duff, our trusted friend and editor extraordinaire at Penguin, who nurtured our book so carefully and brilliantly through each phase and was the ultimate collaborative partner.

Jim Nawrocki, our very talented wordsmith and storytelling editor, who jumped in with total commitment at the eleventh hour, and Dick Ridington, who lent fresh editorial insights as well.

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