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Radical Honesty
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Your mental and physical selves are connected in more ways than you might imagine. That’s why the author starts his patients on body therapy. Physical disciplines such as yoga help people attune themselves to how they’re really feeling. The patient also has to promise to get into decent shape through exercise and healthy eating.
That’s partly because it’s vital that you take responsibility for yourself. The author is fond of an episode in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath in which Tom Joad encounters a bitter and depressed mechanic with one eye. He complains about how badly people treat him on account of his appearance but Tom takes him to task pointing out that the mechanic hasn’t even cleaned himself up and covered his missing eye.
There’s a simple truth here. It’s all too common to blame the world around you when you haven’t yet done all you can for yourself. But the mechanic’s attitude also says something about internal con