Dozviete sa všetko o tom ako sa stravovať, ako posúvať hranice vlastnej fyzickej kondície, ako si zabezpečiť zdravší a dlhší život pomocou vedy a overených faktov. While The Choice was a chronicle of her life story and how she ended up in the psychology field, The Gift is her gift to the world on how to escape the prisons of grief and sorrow from someone who's done it. Eger mentions her experiences with the Nazi's somewhat in this book, most of it is focused on the current day and what some of her current patients have taught her. I’m very selective about who’s going to get my anger, because when I’m angry, I’m the one who suffers.

It’s something we do for ourselves, so we’re no longer victims or prisoners of the past, so we can stop carrying a burden that harbors nothing but pain. We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we do get to choose how we respond to our experience. I’m surprised how often I hear people say things like, ‘I feel I should head downtown this afternoon and run a few errands,’ or, ‘I feel like highlights would really brighten your eyes. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is looking to overcome the past and move into the future with more happiness and a feeling of freedom.Between 1830 and 1860, Catlin visited more than 150 Native American tribes in the North, Central, and South America. Uznávam, že veľakrát nešiel úplne do hĺbky, ale vždy sa čo najlepšie snažil opísať všetky procesy, ktoré s danou problematikou súviseli tak, aby to čitateľa neunudilo a zároveň tomu pochopil. According to Catlin, the method of breathing was the cardinal difference between the Native American’s strong and healthy populationcompared to the “civilized” man with his deteriorated health and short lifespan. A gift we sabotage when we imprison ourselves in our fears of punishment, failure, and abandonment; in our need for approval; in shame and blame; in superiority and inferiority; in our need for power and control.

Ak vás baví čítať knihy o zdraví, tak ju potrebujete, aby ste vedeli, ktoré ostatné knihy, čo už máte, máte vyhodiť. One could choose to embrace those feelings and give in to them or learn to overcome those feelings and live every second of life as a precious gift. This is the work we get to do in the present: to grieve what happened or didn’t happen, to own up to what we did or didn’t do, and to choose our response now. The ISCD report distinguishes two types of harm, harm to the individual and harm to society as a whole. My years of introspection, of being alone and working hard as a ballet student and gymnast, helped me survive hell; and hell taught me to keep dancing for my life.The chapter on the importance of light in sleep patterns was fascinating, as was the final chapter on biological vs chronological age, where the take home message, I think, was it's never too late to improve your health. Un libro que no sólo tenéis que leer sino releer, o al menos eso haré yo siempre que pueda para recordarme las grandes enseñanzas que esta valiente mujer nos ha regalado a través de este maravilloso libro.