Excerpt: The Four Roots of True Happiness

[Guest guest]

I have permission from AMACOM to distribute an excerpt from

the new book, " A Life in Balance, " by Dr. Kathleen A. Hall,

a student of Dr. Dean Ornish at the Preventive Medicine

Research Institute and Dr. Herbert Benson at Harvard

University's Mind-Body Institute. " I received a Ph.D. in

suffering and reverence for life, " says Dr. Hall, and when

you see her bio, you'll understand.

 

Dr. Hall was the perennial go-getter, hawking cookies and

milk in grocery store aisles as a child, and supermoming

her way to a position as a top Wall Street broker. After a

stress-induced crash, she went Walden, holing up on a farm

in rural Georgia. From there, she pursued a degree in

divinity from Emory University and studied under Bishop

Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama. She took her

religious teachings to heart and worked for a battered

women's shelter, an at-risk youth program, then as chaplain

in a hospital where she got that Ph.D. in human suffering.

 

In her new book, Dr. Hall teaches from the center of the

mind-body-spirit triangle and shows how all the pieces fit

together to form a life of true happiness. The excerpt I am

distributing is called " The Four Roots of True Happiness "

and describes how Dr. Hall reacted when a friend told her

she was " living an insufficient life. "

 

I have uploaded the excerpt to this group's Files section

with the file name " excerpt.txt. "

 

Enjoy!