Dr Gabor Mate: How Stress Is Making Us Sick
A Life of Greatness
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The Importance of Living a Life of Authenticity
Palliative care workers say that through the disease they reconnected with the authentic cells that they lost touch with a long time before. The most powerful thing that forbids us from being remaining connected to ourselves is our need to fit in with expectations of our families and societies, says Dr Andrew Keen. If you ignore gut feeling then you're going to suppress your gut feelings because you can't live without it there's this tragic tension which we call in the book between attachment and authenticity - the child saying i got this dilemma if i'm myself they won't accept me if i want to be accepted but the child has no choice in the matter.
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