Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the HeartPenguin, 2 févr. 2016 - 288 pages The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts. |
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... never lose the thread completely, even in the hardest of times. Behold what is emerging now.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, author of Full Catastrophe Living “True healing is both biological and spiritual. When you experience love and ...
... never lose the thread completely, even in the hardest of times. Behold what is emerging now.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, author of Full Catastrophe Living “True healing is both biological and spiritual. When you experience love and ...
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... never end. Can reading someone else's life story change. your. own? Step. Into. the. Magic. Shop. with. Jim. Doty. and. you'll. find. out." —Neal Rogin, Emmy Award-winning writer and filmmaker, and founding board member of Pachamama ...
... never end. Can reading someone else's life story change. your. own? Step. Into. the. Magic. Shop. with. Jim. Doty. and. you'll. find. out." —Neal Rogin, Emmy Award-winning writer and filmmaker, and founding board member of Pachamama ...
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... never taken for granted. “You sound ready to me. I'm going to put on my superhero mask and I'll meet you in the bright room.” He smiles up at me. Surgical masks and operating rooms can be scary. Today I will call them superhero masks ...
... never taken for granted. “You sound ready to me. I'm going to put on my superhero mask and I'll meet you in the bright room.” He smiles up at me. Surgical masks and operating rooms can be scary. Today I will call them superhero masks ...
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... never easy. A little boy's morning headaches have become every parent's worst nightmare. Mom trusts me. Grandma trusts God. I trust my team. Together we will all try to save this boy's life. AFTER the anesthesiologist counts him down to ...
... never easy. A little boy's morning headaches have become every parent's worst nightmare. Mom trusts me. Grandma trusts God. I trust my team. Together we will all try to save this boy's life. AFTER the anesthesiologist counts him down to ...
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... never forgotten that experience. Today my forehead is cool and my eyesight clear. My pulse is slow and steady. Experience makes the difference, and in my operating room I am not the dictator. Or a belligerent prima donna. Every member ...
... never forgotten that experience. Today my forehead is cool and my eyesight clear. My pulse is slow and steady. Experience makes the difference, and in my operating room I am not the dictator. Or a belligerent prima donna. Every member ...
Table des matières
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Thinking About Thinking | 57 |
Growing Pains | 81 |
Three Wishes | 107 |
six Apply Yourself | 133 |
Unacceptable 15 3 | 177 |
The Sultan of Nothing | 205 |
Giving Up | 221 |
The Alphabet of the Heart | 235 |
Manifesting Compassion | 251 |
The Face of God | 267 |
Acknowledgments | 275 |
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