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
True health is about living with the world around us as an engaged, participatory experience. It’s about cooperating with the living force within us: our will, our desire to be here and to share our gifts with the world. Our willingness to do so becomes our sense of purpose, and once we have that, our souls can be healthy in any state.
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
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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Instead, it’s up to each of us to align with our own soul and help others do the same.
Gladys T. McGarey • The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
The juice is our reason for living. It’s our fulfillment, our joy. It’s what happens when life is activated by love. It’s the energy we get from the things that matter and mean something to us. It’s what my parents got from their work with underserved populations, and it’s the first secret I share with you: You are here for a reason. Each of us is
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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
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
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
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.