Relaxation therapist and holistic healer Maxine Gaudio’s new book, Journey to the Center of the Self (Haji and Babu Press, LLC, Sept. 2008), offers readers a roadmap to a more enriched life full of goal achieving possibilities.

Gaudio tells how your past, particularly your childhood and the influence of your mother and father, shaped your present life, and explains how to now make your adult life more peaceful, purposeful, and full of meaning.

The most important lesson from the book says Gaudio, is how to take personal responsibility and shift your paradigm to bring an exciting new way of thinking and feeling to your life. By so doing she says you will find your life more pleasant and peaceful….both for yourself and others.

“This book can make an extraordinary change in your life and offers how-to information about discovering the patterns –what’s happened in your past - that have shaped your life and relationships. The books tells how to make easy life-changing transitions that will help discover your own new greatness,” says Gaudio.

Gaudio combines a clinical background in medicine and science with extensive experience in the natural and alternative healing arts including meditation, toning, stress management, biofeedback, and behavioral and sound therapies. Her career is devoted to instruction and counseling in the fields of stress therapy and mental and emotional healing. Today she is known internationally for this work as well as being a teaching Master of the Usui System of Reiki.

Gaudio has been acknowledged by Who’s Who in American Women and Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare and has been cited in such diverse publications as O, The Oprah Magazine, Business Week, Self, Jane and Time Out New York.

A former chief EEG technologist for the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York, Gaudio became intrigued with the then fledgling field of Biofeedback and did research with patients with Cerebral Palsy, Dystonia and other neurological diseases. A visionary, always pioneering innovative techniques just slightly ahead of the mainstream she quickly recognized these “new” ancient healing arts as powerful holistic vehicles for assisting people in self-healing.

Detailed information is at: http://www.maxinegaudio.com

Gaudio lives and works in Greenwich, Ct. and Reykjavik, Iceland.