Stepping into a new frontier of health, Choosing Brilliant Health is the first practical guide to discovering the most powerful, yet least utilized, route to good health—the thoughts and behaviors that create positive emotions. Based on groundbreaking new studies showing that positive emotions are a root cause of good health, high immune function, and better healing, the book offers a clear, concise path to unraveling the mysteries of the mind-body connection. Choosing Brilliant Health provides the means for anyone to take control of their health and to thrive in spite of inevitable illness and aging. By integrating a specific and easy-to-implement set of nine attitudedriven behaviors that strongly correlate with high quality of life and emotional well-being, people can actually alter their physical state, be more resilient, reduce pain, and recover faster from illness and surgery—to live longer and live better.