This Book May Save Your Life

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Esa frase me hizo mucho sentido mientras estoy en terapia y con medicamentos, especialmente porque mi depresión está muy ligada a no ser yo misma, a no atreverme a expresar y soltar. It doesn’t take courage to strive for perfection. It takes courage to be average. To say, “I’m okay with me.” To say, “Good enough is good enough.””

Quote from George Catlin’s book Shut Your Mouth and Save your Life “ I have devoted the greaterpart of my life in visiting, and recording the looks of, the various native Races of North andSouth America; and during those researches, observing the healthy condition and physicalperfection of those people, in their primitive state, as contrasted with the deplorable mortality,the numerous diseases and deformities, in civilized communities, I have been led to search for,and able, I believe, to discover, the main causes leading to such different results.“ Breathing is the cardinal differenceHolocaust survivor, Dr. Edith Eger, is one such beautiful person. What she suffered I cannot begin to fathom, but she chose to make her life a testament to what we can overcome, the lessons she shares in this book are innumerable going far beyond the 12 mental prisons she shares. Cutting through confusing statistics and terrifying headlines, here is the truth about dieting, drugs, 10,000 steps a day, bacon, calorie-counting, coffee, dairy, sleep, fibre, hangovers, salt, sugar, cardio, sunscreen, statins, vitamins, and much more. Mulți cititori pot vedea abisul propriei vieți văzând scrisă pe hârtie istoria dramei pe care o trăiesc. Citind, poți vedea clar devierea inumană în care te afli, iar sfaturile și încurajările pe care le găsești aici te pot ajuta să-i pui capăt sau să iei măsuri pentru a schimba cursul situației în care te-ai pomenit. This sunny and disarming story is probably the last thing you would expect from Homes, whose most celebrated work, The End of Alice, is a study of paedophilia across two generations. But she is as fearless and inquisitive about the nature of kindness as she was about child abuse; if anything, this book is braver. Artists and philosophers are forever fretting over the "problem of evil". There's relatively little written about the much more interesting problem of good. Generosity can be powerfully addictive. The real-estate millionaire Zell Kravinsky, for instance, gave away his fortune and then - to the consternation of his family - tried to give away one of his kidneys. What makes us want to help strangers at our own cost and against our own interest? It isn't thanks: do-gooder is a term of abuse. Small acts of inexplicable generosity can be as alarming as they are charming. A friend of mine once found an old man bewildered and freezing in Sefton Park, spent the evening trying to find his house for him and was later arrested for attempted abduction and mugging. Richard Novak is called a freak and attention-seeker, but still keeps on. Homes is brilliant on what the attraction is. She captures the enchantment of generosity - that sense of adventure you get when you step out of your own circle of need into someone else's, and the weird feeling of invulnerability it gives you (at one point Richard ends up in a high-speed car chase with some kidnappers).

We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we do get to choose how we respond to our experience.” An important clueto Catlin’s great health discovery can be found in his own personal life. Catlin’s wife and one of his children died ofpneumonia. In pneumonia, breathing is likely to be shallow, rapid, and in and out through the mouth. Shallow breathing prevents the air from reachingthe bottom of the lungs. This creates a fertileenvironment for bacterial growth and the result could be pneumonia. Catlin himself had suffered the consequences of this, having since childhood developed the habit of breathing throughhis mouth.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. When Edith was sixteen, she and her family were sent to Auschwitz. She is a psychologist and wrote this book when she was 92. Here is what she wrote: De mentale gevangenissen die zij behandelt zijn de gevangenissen van de slachtofferrol, vermijding, verwaarlozing, geheimen, schuld en schaamte, onverwerkt verdriet, starheid, wrok, verlammende angst, veroordelen, hopeloosheid en het niet-vergeven. Deze thema’s legt zij uit, ondersteunt zij met voorbeelden uit haar eigen praktijk en met anekdotes uit haar eigen leven, en ze sluit elk hoofdstuk af met praktische sleutels, aanwijzingen om ergens op een andere manier tegenaan te kijken, kleine dingen die je voor jezelf kunt veranderen, inzichten.

This is how growth and learning and healing happen—by what you do, little by little, on your own behalf.” we’re human, no more, no less, and human means fallible. Freedom lies in accepting our whole, imperfect selves and giving up the need for perfection.” Even a Nazi can be a messenger of God. This boy was my best teacher, guiding me to the choice I always have to replace judgement with compassion - to recognise our shared humanity and practice love" The adage says, “Time heals all wounds.” But I disagree. Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with the time.”Nu-mi pot imagina coșmarul pe care l-a trăit dna Eger la Auschwitz, în acel iad pe pământ, care i-a răpit familia, sufletul, propria persoană, însă d-ei a ales, prin propriul exemplu, să ne învețe lecțiile pe care le putem lua drept povață, iar cele 12 exemple pe care ni le aduce se multiplică dacă citim bine printre rânduri. Deși coșmarul din lagăr a luat sfârșit, trauma trecutului e cea care a bântuit-o mult timp după. D-ei, acum liberă, a rămas încă acea prizonieră sleită, înfrigurată, orfană de drepturi. Propria traumă a determinat-o s-o ia pe drumul tămăduirii durerii altora, ea însăși să ne fie, prin terapie și scris, alinarea de care a fost lipsită și care a lăsat-o cu sechele. George Catlin was born in Pennsylvania 1796 and started his career as a lawyer, a job of which he was not particularly fond. His dream was to paint.Catlin loved people, their faces, and to paint faces expressing feelings. His live was changed forever when he met a delegation of about fifteen Native Americans from several tribes who were passing through Philadelphia on their way to Washington D.C.