Work Out Your Own Salvation: How I healed a five-year-long

Work Out Your Own Salvation: How I healed a five-year-long headache

Follow the author, E.T. Sagan as he goes on an adventure from Bellingham, WA to Hawai'i while attempting to heal a terrifying, life-crippling, five-year-long headache. This book is recommended for people who: 1) enjoy reading interesting, crazy real-life stories or 2) have frequent headaches, pain or other diseases that have a psychological aspect connected to them and realize that no self-help book which gives three easy steps or only suggests changing a diet can be enough. E. T. Sagan jokes that, "Healing a chronic headache is easy; all you have to do is slay your demons, and become enlightened". While Elon wouldn't say that the experiences listed in this book made him completely enlightened, the experiences and mentors he met along the way DID take him from a state of mental illness to a healthy, balanced, mental state, which slowly had an effect on the body in a positive way.

Since everyone has their own "demons" or bleating lambs in their heads which need to be silenced, Elon doesn't set out to tell people exactly what to do for their own unique situation, but sincerely hopes that his path towards healing and wholeness can help inspire others to find their own path of healing.

As a true story, this may appeal to those interested in memoirs.

As a Ph.D. in chemistry, the author describes himself as being part of a rare breed of spiritual scientists. There is a bit of tension between science and spirituality as he first tries to heal the headache with conventional, physical means in a scientific manner. However, he soon finds that the root of the headache is very psychological in nature which takes him on a journey investigating his ego, spirituality, and guilt and pain caused by the suffering of the environment.

As a brief view of the Table of Contents will show, E. T. Sagan and his true story doesn't fit the typical "Self-Help" mold... or really any mold at all, as it is filled with weird stories and irreverent, quirky life experiences with hippies and several reverences to crazy, genius homeless people. My favorite parts are when he takes advice to heart even from mean crazy people who yell at him, such as in "Chapter 34: redneck guy in child-molester van tells me 'Take care of yourself!' Be selfish! I realized I am The Mangy Cat."

In one breath, he recommends partying with frat boys to relax as a recommendation to help heal a headache, and in another breath, he condenses complex medical knowledge on headaches into easy-to-understand language. He then jumps to meditating and experiences involving losing himself in Open Mics. A good way to help you decide whether or not to buy the book would be to glance through the table of contents which show all of the bizarre and detailed chapter titles so you can get a good feel for what the book will be about. The author even recommends you just jump to the few chapters you are interested in if you are short on time. With each of the short, 49 chapters a chronological lesson, it ends up being a very fast, entertaining read which reads more like a real-life adventure story than a "How-to-heal-a-headache" book. Indeed, it is easy for a reader to get lost in the story and see his headache, his Bunion in the Brain, as a main character. Towards the end, however, after experiencing what he experiences, one can see the method in the madness and how his particular chapters and lessons helped him heal the headache, and how many of the lessons might transfer to other, more normal people. He starts out as an insane defender of lice colonies on his dreaded-head, and transforms into a merely weird human without a headache...a fair trade he doesn't regret.
Country USA
Manufacturer E. T. Sagan
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-20
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	E. T. Sagan
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-10-20
Format	Kindle eBook

Work Out Your Own Salvation: How I healed a five-year-long headache

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