This Book May Save Your Life

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Although healing from pain and trauma is serious work, that doesn’t mean there aren’t smiles to be had as you make your way through this book. Dr Eger addresses the prisons of victimhood, avoidance, self-neglect, secrets, guilt and shame, unresolved grief, rigidity, resentment, paralysing fear, judgement, hopelessness, and not forgiving. The most powerful of these tools has undoubtedly been to improve his breathing habits, which made Anders decide to become the worlds most prominent expert in breathing. This is one of those books where it would have been much easier to have highlighted the passages that didn’t speak directly to me. But we've switched to organic milk, as Graham says there could be health benefit to this, but not most other organic foods, and was interested to hear about the benefits of the 16:8 method of fasting, which could be easy to adhere to.

George Catlin was born in Pennsylvania 1796 and started his career as a lawyer, a job of which he was not particularly fond. Endorsed by Oprah, these '12 Lessons to Save Your Life” have more in common with the saccharine sentimentality of Law of Attraction nonsense like The Secret than the more serious work of other Holocaust survivors. It’s better to risk and grow, and maybe fail, than to remain imprisoned, never knowing what could have been. Hope allows us to live in the present instead of the past, and to unlock the doors of our mental prisons. I found the part that states that tough and trying times are the times that teach you the most in life was a great way of turning a negative incident into a positive learning experience which is a really helpful way to deal with what life throws your way.

The individual who does not consider him/herself to have the time or the desire to take responsibility for their health. This is not hippy, dippy self-help, it is a practical guide with exercises and myriad examples from her life and that of others to help us lead more purposeful lives, focusing not on pain and trauma, but what we can learn from it. A process of confronting a life where you expect one thing and get another, a life that brings you the unexpected and unanticipated. A willingness to cultivate within yourself whatever kindles light, and to shine that light into the darkest places. Eger witnessed, after watching her parents be sent to their deaths, having to dance before Josef Mengele, and enduring constant abuse at the hands of the Nazis.

I felt, more than workable info, this book was a lengthy recounting of her own story with a few pieces of corny advice thrown in. Amongst the Indian tribes that had begun to adopt Western habits their health deteriorated more and more. The ISCD report distinguishes two types of harm, harm to the individual and harm to society as a whole. It’s what lit the fire within my soul when I read The Choice and it’s what made its flame shine even brighter as I made my way through The Gift.

Este o lectura facila, care se concentreaza mai mult pe aspectele vietii de zi cu zi si cum ne putem elibera de anumite "inchisori" in care ne incatusam de unii singuri decat pe a continua cu alte povesti din lagar.