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| Steve O'Keefe |
 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:04 am |
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I have permission from AMACOM to distribute an excerpt from
the new book, "A Life in Balance," by Dr. Kathleen A. Hall,
a student of Dr. Dean Ornish at the Preventive Medicine
Research Institute and Dr. Herbert Benson at Harvard
University's Mind-Body Institute. "I received a Ph.D. in
suffering and reverence for life," says Dr. Hall, and when
you see her bio, you'll understand.
Dr. Hall was the perennial go-getter, hawking cookies and
milk in grocery store aisles as a child, and supermoming
her way to a position as a top Wall Street broker. After a
stress-induced crash, she went Walden, holing up on a farm
in rural Georgia. From there, she pursued a degree in
divinity from Emory University and studied under Bishop
Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama. She took her
religious teachings to heart and worked for a battered
women's shelter, an at-risk youth program, then as chaplain
in a hospital where she got that Ph.D. in human suffering.
In her new book, Dr. Hall teaches from the center of the
mind-body-spirit triangle and shows how all the pieces fit
together to form a life of true happiness. The excerpt I am
distributing is called "The Four Roots of True Happiness"
and describes how Dr. Hall reacted when a friend told her
she was "living an insufficient life." To get the excerpt,
send mailto:stevokeefe@bellsouth.net with the subject line,
"Send Happiness" and I will reply with the text -- and
*only* the text -- no file attachments or opt-in mailing
list jive. Thanks. |
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