The Breakthrough Mind Body Healing Program by Kathryn Shafer, Ph.D. Asthma knows no geographical, gender, age and economic boundaries. It effects 15 million Americans across all demographic groups, including children, as well as millions of others around the world. Asthma is the leading cause of visits to doctors' offices. It accounts for more absences from work and school than any other chronic disease and is the sixth most common reason for hospitalization.	Contact Dr. Shafer To Obtain Your Copy Today!
	For children, it is the No.1 cause of emergency room visits and hospital admission. More than $1 billion is spent annually on its treatment. Those treatments have been limited to drugs and pulmonary devices that temporarily suppress or relieve the disease's symptoms, but offer no real solution. That is about to change.

Kathryn Shafer, Ph.D., a social scientist and one-time asthma sufferer, has documented what can only be termed a revolutionary approach to the cause and ultimately the healing of asthma in "Asthma Free in 21 Days: The Breakthrough Mind-Body Healing Program" (HarperSanFransisco; April 2000; $22.00; Hardcover). Such a concept might seem a pipe dream to asthma sufferers whose disease has left them gasping for breath, often times since childhood. But Dr. Shafer, who has healed herself as well as many others of the disease, view asthma as a complex psycho-physiological disorder with emotional, social, spiritual as well as physical dimensions.

Their therapeutic approach is a mind-body program that empowers asthma sufferers to heal themselves. She has dubbed this innovative and proven-successful system, F.U.N: ·Focus on the asthma in a new way ·Undo old patterns of thought and behavior ·Now Act so as to transform those life situations that suppress and suffocate..

The F.U.N. acronym is no accident. Humor and laughter are essential to the program as are the techniques of mental imagery. With F.U.N., asthmatics learn to recognize the emotional meaning and belief systems at the root of their symptoms and eventually make sense of the suffering that seemed random.

"Asthma Free in 21 Days,"chronicles Shafer's own healing process using the F.U.N. program as well as the patients she healed of asthma at her Limitless Potentials therapeutic center in Florida and in workshops across the country. The book clearly explains Shafer's step by step 21 day F.U.N. program. It also presents research on childhood asthma and suggestions on how kids can use the F.U.N. program. The F.U.N. program is flexible and adaptive and aimed at making asthma sufferers their own primary care providers.

In its holistic view of disease and its cure, "Asthma Free in 21 Days" offers principles and techniques that can apply to many disorders. For asthmatics, the book charts a path to lessening and eliminating dependence on drugs and outside devices. Asthmatics can live not only symptom free, but asthma-free - forever.