By Jennifer Wickham — 2019
We cannot separate the importance of a sense of belonging from our physical and mental health.
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Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr.
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We live in an age of stress. Each day at work and at home as we struggle to take care of the basics, constant stress significantly affects our ability to lead healthy and happy lives.
Dr. Weil discusses the harmful effects of stress and how they can raise cortisol levels in the body. One effective method of reducing stress is to recognize stressors in everyday life and to quell them before they become unmanageable.
Joan Borysenko, co-founder and director of the Mind/Body Clinic at New England Deaconess Hospital/Harvard Medical School, describes the clinic’s ten-week program for learning to “mind the body” through a medical synthesis of neurology, immunology, and psychology.