One Second Rule: To Always Stay Happy

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Pub Date 8 Dec 2018 | Archive Date 10 Nov 2019

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Doctor Leonid Altshuler, a U.S. board-certified psychiatrist, went through years of misdiagnosis and suffering from high blood pressure, digestion problems, anxiety and insomnia, before he discovered the techniques he now uses.

Emotional stress appears to be a major trigger of almost all significant major health issues in modern society. Emotional stress can lead to the development of insulin resistance, whole body and brain inflammation, metabolic syndrome, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, dementia and cancer.

Stress does not appear to be an objective reality, it representa our frequently conditioned emotional response to life events.

But there is always a precious moment, a second, in between the life event and your emotional reaction to it.

You always have the power of free will to utilize that second to completely change your attitude toward the event, and prevent yourself from being stressed out and getting sick with all the illnesses of the 21 century connected with stress.

Doctor Altshuler has develop a specific technique that he teaches all his patients so they can live a life free of stress.

He has successfully taught this technique to thousands of patients helping them to use that precious second to stay healthy, happy and avoid significant mental and physical illnesses.

If you want a fast and effective way to radically improve how you deal with stress this book is for you.

Doctor Leonid Altshuler, a U.S. board-certified psychiatrist, went through years of misdiagnosis and suffering from high blood pressure, digestion problems, anxiety and insomnia, before he discovered...


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Leonid Altshuler proposed from his shooting-from-the-hip style of writing, stress plays a significant role for being a contributing factor responsible for many physical and psychological ailments, many quite serious. The author claimed that there are a surprising plethora of illnesses prevalent across the United States to include: depression, suicide, obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and drug addiction. Taken on good faith, it's the doctor's opinion that stress is the main component responsible for all of these cases. Therefore, as he suggested, you treat the stress - you treat the disease. That's quite a leap from the conventional method that Western medicine approach for diagnosing illnesses. It's my belief the author is on to something.

Attacking the issue, decreasing the level of stress hormones in the blood is critical to bringing levels of stress under control. Making perfect sense, the first point to consider is that everyone reacts differently to a given stressful event, even if it's exactly the same stressor.

The author applies the 'one second rule' to all stressful events we encounter. For example, upon hearing disturbing news, we have only a short window of time to control the amount of stress so that it won't impact the body and mind. That short-lived one second moment in time is crucial to the way our body's chemistry is affected. Examples of this invaluable short reaction time are listed in an easy-to-read order. The author goes on to demonstrate that in a real-time basis, steps are provided for how to cope with any given difficult situation. For our health and happiness, they're worth giving some serious thought to.

I offer my gratitude to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for this ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

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This book includes fascinating information about how our emotional state impacts our physical health. There is quite a bit of research supporting the idea that stress impacts our health. This book contains useful information and strategies on how to use this mind/body connection to change our health for the better. I highly recommend this book for people interested in making smart, healthy lifestyle changes.

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I enjoyed this self-help book. I have started implementing some of the strategies and am seeing positive changes. Am hoping that I can continue to follow Dr. Altshuler's advice and continue to see my stress levels and negative reactions decline in the future. I would recommend this book to everyone, but especially those with anger issues and those that struggle with recurrent negative thinking.

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Emotional stress is the trigger in society today for health issues, diabetes, stroke, obesity, brain and body inflammation to name but a few which all respond to life events but this book shows you how to change your life by using meditation techniques so that you too can lead a life stress free.

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I like the technique on how to react to stressful events. I'm sure that our reactions to some life events are often unnecessary and overreacted. I have to try the meditation technique mentioned in this book.

I don't mind that this book is a short read. I like that you quickly get to the point of the book.

At some points, I didn't like the author's writing style.

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One of the most frustrating things I find about self-help books are how they contain so much blurb and superfluous discourse that it can feel like an endurance test to get though - if you ever do get to the end! The upshot is that if the unneeded fluff is removed it would give a really informative read, that is easier to concentrate on with clear take home messages. So, I was over the moon having come across Altshuler, as the book is short, concise and delivers what the premise of the book suggests it can do. Other authors and publishers please take note –it was an absolute pleasure to read. It made good use of my precious time and gave me concise, straight forward instruction/guidance on what to do to focus to change my thoughts/awareness and alter my brain waves to reduce stress hormone production and the impact these have on the body and ultimately a person’s well-being. Essentially you use a thought process that takes one second to deter a negative response to stress and take time a little later to find the positive aspects out of bad situations to support coping and the practical personal actions to deal with the situ. Thought provoking and probably not far off the mark and so worth a quick read.

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