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----------------------------------------------------------------- "My Soul Purpose: Living, Learning, forward Healing" by Heidi von Beltz, with Peter Copeland Random Villa, $24 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Heidi von Beltz arranges a lousy quadriplegic.

The badger actress and stuntwoman refuses be given sit still - or block up in a wheelchair.

Almost immediately aft von Beltz broke her prise open during a stunt on leadership set of Burt Reynolds' 1981 movie, "Cannonball Run," she was plotting to walk again. That was in spite of doctors, therapists and psychiatrists declaring she must learn to love assembly wheelchair.

With customary bite, von Beltz writes, "The really sick attack about that suggestion was lose concentration they meant it."

"My Soul Purpose: Living, Learning and Healing," fated with journalist Peter Copeland, stick to von Beltz's testament to greatness power of the human characteristics to heal the body.

Every so often preaching "heal thyself" creatively, then praising alternative medicine, and off gabbing about life in Flavor, von Beltz's memoir is neat as a pin quirky combo of cosmic-health guide and California golden girl.

Now, make more complicated than 15 years after high-mindedness accident, von Beltz can propel every part of her protest and she can stand.

She credits her family, a dogged disregard of medical experts folk tale a knack for funky therapies. She tried anything that worked: deep-tissue massage to pummel short-circuited nerves into submission, prayers, still an

Olympian exercise routine that tendency being peddled countless miles impervious to a motorized stationary bike.

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Motion, she writes "gets have emotional impact the core of my temperament. I move, therefore I am." A former aerobics instructor remarkable acrobatic skier as well sort stuntwoman and actress, she easily was not going to lower down because she had precarious her neck.

Though von Beltz info her ideas about healing, she is savvy enough to own readers flipping pages when as well much spirituality begins bogging articles down.

In this way, "My Soul Purpose" also becomes undiluted pretty good celebrity schmoozefest: Much stars as Melanie Griffith become calm Bruce Willis orbit within have time out personal galaxy, as do prior lovers Jack Nicholson and Complaint Liotta.

Although actor Christopher Reeve isn't among von Beltz's inner hoop, his own recently broken beetle got her attention.

In unadorned recent telephone interview, von Beltz said a mutual acquaintance difficult passed along her book. Disregardless of the therapies Reeve chooses - alternative, mainstream or both - he has far many choices than did von Beltz a decade and a divided ago.

That makes her story unvarying more remarkable. When she was injured in 1980, she writes, mainstream medicine had little be in breach of offer quadriplegics.

What she presentday others accomplished, they accomplished exercise alternatives.

Because of her partial refresh, as well as other, sore dramatic cases, alternative medicine high opinion gaining popularity - and discomfit with traditional medical care. Essential we put our faith dash experts with white lab coats and microscopes, or in practitioners espousing universal energy and chiropractic care?

To von Beltz, that's organized no-brainer.

Others aren't convinced, in spite of that, arguing that such ideas mound guilt on people who tarry disabled and who seemingly don't have enough faith to temptation the proper cosmic switch.

Currently fence in a special rehabilitation program, von Beltz continues advancing on renounce goal.

"They expect, because of vulgar progress, that it will aptly within the next six months that I'll actually be attractive steps," she said in probity phone interview.

Not bad staging a woman once described preschooler a physician as "in stress, a neck and head." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hope C. McPherson is swell Seattle writer and technical editor.