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Summary: Vital Energy - a must read for feeling great!
Review: This book was inspiring because it reminded me to do the things I inherently knew inside to help myself feel balanced and vital. Ever since I turned 35 years old, all I have wanted was to feel good inside and out and I could not figure out why this was so difficult to attain (and my tiredness seemed to come on so suddenly)...I was exhausted. Getting in touch with my true nature through the simple steps (life concepts) that Dr. Simon illustrates enables me to feel truly alive again. I am elated to know that such physicians exist out there that are truly interested in a persons well being and can treat the whole being! I look forward to going to the Chopra Center one day and experiencing the programs he developed in person.
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Summary: Vital Energy is of Vital Importance
Review: Vital Energy: The Seven Keys to Invigorate Body, Mind and Soul is a landmark contribution to health and wellness. The author poses two important questions:1) Why are so many people overwhelmed by fatigue, lack of enthusiasm, and depression?
2) Why are so many people haunted by the sense that something vitally important is missing from their lives? In pursing answers to these questions, Simon focuses on the idea that "we have learned a lot about how to treat illness but not much about how to create health." In medical school he learned that modern medicine can effectively deal with the symptoms of disease without necessarily helping them to heal. Simon states, "I learned that health and illness were the consequence of the thoughts and choices people made." This personal discovery came to him through the tension that existed between his medical studies and his cross-cultural explorations of health and wellness in various parts of the world. Healing is a holistic concept that has global reach. The idea of healing in many cultures is focused on creating a greater sense of unity across mind, body and spirit. Simon promotes the belief that the experience of happiness and health represents an essential unity across mind, body and spirit while unhappiness and disease represents some degree of disintegration. A broad view of healing is critical for reintegrating these essential connections and David SimonÕs ÒVital EnergyÓ is an essential contribution to everyoneÕs health and well being.
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