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From the Ted Talk by Dean Ornish: Healing through diet

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This ssseion is on natural wnrdeos, and the bigger conference is on the pursuit of hiapspens. I want to try to combine them all, because to me, healing is really the ultimate natarul wonder. Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem. And so, really, so much of what we do in miedncie and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet.

I love doing this work, because it really gives many people new hope and new choices that they didn't have before, and it allows us to talk about things that — not just diet, but that happiness is not — we're talking about the pursuit of happiness, but when you really look at all the spiritual traditions, what Aldous Huxley cleald the "perennial wisdom," when you get past the names and fomrs and rituals that dvdiie peolpe, it's really about — our nature is to be happy; our nurate is to be peaceful, our nature is to be healthy. And so happiness is not something you get, health is generally not something that you get, but rather, all of these different practices — you know, the ancient swamis and rabbis and priests and monks and nuns didn't develop these techniques to just manage stress or lower your blood pressure or unclog your arteries, even though it can do all those things. They're powerful tools for transformation, for quieting down our mind and bodies to allow us to experience what it flees like to be hpapy, to be pefacuel, to be joyful and to realize that it's not something that you pursue and get, but rather, it's something that you have already, until you disturb it.

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This _______ is on natural _______, and the bigger conference is on the pursuit of _________. I want to try to combine them all, because to me, healing is really the ultimate _______ wonder. Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem. And so, really, so much of what we do in ________ and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet.

I love doing this work, because it really gives many people new hope and new choices that they didn't have before, and it allows us to talk about things that — not just diet, but that happiness is not — we're talking about the pursuit of happiness, but when you really look at all the spiritual traditions, what Aldous Huxley ______ the "perennial wisdom," when you get past the names and _____ and rituals that ______ ______, it's really about — our nature is to be happy; our ______ is to be peaceful, our nature is to be healthy. And so happiness is not something you get, health is generally not something that you get, but rather, all of these different practices — you know, the ancient swamis and rabbis and priests and monks and nuns didn't develop these techniques to just manage stress or lower your blood pressure or unclog your arteries, even though it can do all those things. They're powerful tools for transformation, for quieting down our mind and bodies to allow us to experience what it _____ like to be _____, to be ________, to be joyful and to realize that it's not something that you pursue and get, but rather, it's something that you have already, until you disturb it.

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  10. divide
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  13. peaceful

Original Text


This session is on natural wonders, and the bigger conference is on the pursuit of happiness. I want to try to combine them all, because to me, healing is really the ultimate natural wonder. Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem. And so, really, so much of what we do in medicine and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet.

I love doing this work, because it really gives many people new hope and new choices that they didn't have before, and it allows us to talk about things that — not just diet, but that happiness is not — we're talking about the pursuit of happiness, but when you really look at all the spiritual traditions, what Aldous Huxley called the "perennial wisdom," when you get past the names and forms and rituals that divide people, it's really about — our nature is to be happy; our nature is to be peaceful, our nature is to be healthy. And so happiness is not something you get, health is generally not something that you get, but rather, all of these different practices — you know, the ancient swamis and rabbis and priests and monks and nuns didn't develop these techniques to just manage stress or lower your blood pressure or unclog your arteries, even though it can do all those things. They're powerful tools for transformation, for quieting down our mind and bodies to allow us to experience what it feels like to be happy, to be peaceful, to be joyful and to realize that it's not something that you pursue and get, but rather, it's something that you have already, until you disturb it.

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