The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
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The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
But in truth, happiness has much more to do with how we feel than anything else. When we try to follow everyone else, do what we think we “should,” or create an identity for ourselves that doesn’t work, we suffer.
Gladys T. McGarey • The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
about my patients. Many people have similar concerns. To be interested and engaged in life often brings this sense of being tugged in multiple directions toward different passions, each of which requires time, attention, and life force. Where should we pour our juice? It feels as though we have to make a choice, but we’re complex beings, and we’re
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Health doesn’t require us to live in a problem-free body, just as happiness doesn’t require us to experience a problem-free life. Health and happiness are about being so connected to our own life force that we feel we fit into the world around us.
Gladys T. McGarey • The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
when we approach our own suffering with curiosity, asking it what it may have to teach us, it takes on new meaning. This is true of any kind of suffering—physical, emotional, and spiritual.
Gladys T. McGarey • The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
And as I see it, true health has nothing to do with diagnosing a disease or prolonging life just for the sake of it; it’s about finding out who we are, paying attention to how we’re called to grow and change, and listening to what makes our heart sing.
Gladys T. McGarey • The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
To be truly alive, we must find the life force within ourselves and direct our energy toward it.
Gladys T. McGarey • The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
Each of us is a complex ecosystem of thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and sensations, all of which play into our state of health. I’m not just interested in relieving my patients’ symptoms; I’m interested in helping them see their current distress in the context of the greater journey their soul is undertaking.
Gladys T. McGarey • The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
Yet the greater aim is to create a suitably healthy environment—the body—in which the soul can fulfill its purpose.
Gladys T. McGarey • The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
Diseases and symptoms—from simple aches and pains to metastatic cancer—are also part of that perfect design. By showing us where the body is hurt, they show us precisely where the soul needs to work next.