What Matters Most

[Celebration]

Very nice, inspiring article in a mainstream source. Hopefully, the shift................

http://www.newsweek.com/id/116684/page/1

Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote: "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Rachel Remen, M.D., has spent much of her 40-year medical career helping patients and doctors find their why. A colleague of mine at the University of California, San Francisco, and founder of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, she has been a pioneer of integrative medicine, exploring the powerful ways in which our emotional, mental and spiritual states may directly affect our health. Dr. Remen is also the author of the best sellers "Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal" and "My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging" (both from Riverhead Books). I spoke to her recently about how understanding and pursuing what matters most to us can help to heal both body and soul.

Dean Ornish: There is a lot of suffering in the world right now, and it's experienced on so many different levels—a lot of edginess, anxiety and fear. You often describe how suffering can be a catalyst for transforming our lives. In what ways?
Rachel Remen: Very negative experiences, including anxiety and fear, have the potential to cause us to question the way we've been living. They're a wake-up call. They make people think more deeply about things and ask themselves questions like: What's important? What really matters? How do I want to spend my time, my money, my energy? How do I live more deliberately according to the things that are important to me? Just a very simple two-word question—"What matters?"—can change your life and the lives of people around you.

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What matters most is love. And the things that matter are very simple—they're very old—and they're very, very important. These things that can't be measured are the foundation of our lives. There is meaning in everything we do. Most of us live far more meaningful lives than we know.

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Recognizing that we are all connected and, because of that, we have the power to make a real difference in the life of a total stranger without even knowing their name. We often feel powerless in today's society--that you have to be wealthy, or educated or somehow more than you are in order to make any kind of significant difference in the world. And the reality is that we've already made a far greater difference than we know, we have changed the lives of many more people than we realize because there is a web of connection between us.

[I Have A Dream]

1. That was a great article. Thanks for posting it, itsjustme. nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. this is good

let us hope that enough people decide that they've suffered enough and make the shift.

[mother earth]

3. All you need is love...all you need is love...all you need is love,

love, LOVE is all you need.....:loveya:

This is so simple, and yet it's the biggest life lesson.

Thanks, itsjustme. :thumbsup:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Bravo- It's good to see the truth is getting out there into the mainstream.

Especially regarding suffering and problem-solving. Thanks for posting this, I'm going to forward it around.

:thumbsup:

[rumpel]

5. what a lovely article

and in Newsweek!

thank you for posting. :)