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LEGACY OF THE HEART
Wayne Muller |
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Those of us whose childhoods have been painful often develop a heightened sensitivity and compassion for the pain of others. Wayne Muller is author of Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood. He suggests we can learn to let go of blaming others for our pain or even trying to understand why we were the victims of misfortune.
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CONSCIOUS AGING
Gay Gaer Luce |
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In other cultures we can find models in which old age is a time for great spiritual opening. Gay Gaer Luce, Ph.D., is author of Longer Life, More Joy. She proposes that the aging process need not occur in the manner prescribed by cultural stereotypes.
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LIVING WITH ILLNESS
Rachel Naomi Remen |
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Individuals can learn to live fulfilling lives in the face of serious chronic illness. Naomi Remen, M.D., author of The Human Patient, is medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Center in Bolinas, California. In this moving interview, Dr. Remen speaks eloquently about the loneliness and pain of illness as well as the opportunity for spiritual deepening which it affords.
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HEALING AND DYING
Dale Borglum |
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Serious illness provides an opportunity for individuals to get in touch with the part of themselves that is not dependent upon social status, wealth or physical appearance. Dale Borglum, Ph.D., is director of the Living/Dying Center in Fairfax, California. He suggests that healing is most possible when one does not deny the possibility of death.
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Four complete programs
120 minutes
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| " I think that my illness has been brutal and difficult and cruel. I think it also has brought into my life a great deal of the richness and the meaning that I have now, which I might not have had without it." --Rachel Naomi Remen |
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