Recovery from Illness

Arthur Boorman: Losing 140 Pounds and Walking Again Through Daily Yoga

In ten months of daily practice, Boorman lost 140 pounds, dropped to 157 pounds, threw away his leg braces, back brace, and forearm crutches, and regained complete unassisted ...

William McRaven: Daily Discipline Rebuilt Him After a Parachute Crash

McRaven made a complete physical recovery, defied medical predictions, and returned to full active duty. He rose to Four-Star Admiral and Commander of U.S. Special Operations ...

Jill Bolte Taylor: Rebuilding After a Stroke Through the 90-Second Rule

Taylor achieved 100% full recovery of speech, writing, motor control, and analytical capacity over eight years. In 2008, she published 'My Stroke of Insight' (Viking/Penguin),...

Norman Cousins: With Laughter Therapy, He Beat a 1-in-500 Terminal Illness

Cousins experienced a complete reversal of his disease, eliminating all symptoms, restoring full spinal mobility, and returning to tennis, golf, and piano. His 1976 paper in t...

Patrick McKeown: Nasal Breathing Reversed His Severe Chronic Asthma

Within three days his nighttime wheezing stopped, within weeks his chronic coughing ceased, and within months he completely discontinued all asthma inhalers and medications, r...

Niloofar: Daily Meditation Ended Her 12 Years of Severe Depression

## Before the Change Hello, I am Niloofar; an Iranian girl. I am writing this because my awakening path was filled with detours and fake gurus. To explain where it started, I ...

James Clear: Using Micro-Habits to Recover from Severe Brain Injury

Clear's micro-habits compounded into extraordinary results: by senior year, he was voted team captain, named to the All-NCAC First Team, selected as Denison's top male scholar...