You Are What You Say : A Harvard Doctor's Six-Step Proven Program for Transforming Stress Through the Power of Language
Author: Matthew Budd M.D., Larry Rothstein
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ISBN: 0812929616
Publisher: Crown (18 July, 2000)
Sales Rank: 34,233
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
A Sacred Space for Designing Life
In this book Matt Budd produces the magic of poets, artists of the first rate, and a few others: he gives us fresh access to ourselves as the material for making a life, and contributes to our skills for designing our lives. Inevitably, and by design, this book appears in the tradition of "self help." It is that, and the combination of experiences, explanation of phenomena, examples, and exercises that the authors use to bring us the help is effective and beautifully done. However, the book is a lot more than that at the same time. For example, I put it alongside the great plays and the great poets as a source of reflection, insight, and inspiration into what I am doing with my life, and alongside meditation and prayer for creating space in my life to consider what is important, be grateful for life, and get ready to take action on what I am not satisfied with.
And there is more: the authors give us access to a group of thinkers who are not accessible to the general public today, because the foundations of their thinking are so recently built that they aren't even taught at most universities. The best examples are the radical new interpretation of language and action of Fernando Flores and the biology of Humberto Maturana. Each has written, but their books are difficult. Budd does a beautiful job of taking us simply and clearly into these new worlds.
A book not to be missed! Thank you, Matthew Budd, and thank you Amazon for making this kind of conversation possible for all of us.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The wisdom of this book will one day be common knowledge
I am convinced from reading this book that Dr. Budd is articulating so clearly the sort of things about ourselves that many of us notice in more private or reflective moments, but are difficult to describe in words so that we tend to think we are crazy, or friends and colleages say we think too much. What makes a book like this so refreshing is that it acknowledges the inner experience of individuals (how things affect us) as being as important (if not more sometimes) as the the things that "happen to us" from the outside. For me, this is liberating because, as Dr Budd points out through stories of experiences with his patients, we are in a much better position to examine and alter our response to what happens to us, than we are able to alter external events that are beyond our control. The notion that we generate our own experience of life, is something that our culture is just starting to wake up to, and Dr Budd has been exploring this for decades. As a doctor myself, it is one of my favorite books to reccommend to patients, because it seems impossible that a person could read it and not be changed by the wisdom that, thanks to this book, will one day be common knowledge.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Scientific analysis of the relationship bet. mind and body
Thought-provoking book. This book is not a collection of mere conjectures. This book is solidly based on sientific data and experience as a medical doctor. A must-read for people who are mentally healthy as well as people who are not mentally well. Similar Products
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