Eat Well, Breathe, Love and More
Do you want to live a longer, happier, and healthier life? Let’s talk about ways that we can do just that! The Talking Joy Team discusses four key points from the book - UnDo It! by Dr. Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish.*Anne Ornish is Talking Joy Team member Katie’s step-sister!
As seen on the Oprah Soul Series, learn how simple lifestyle changes can REVERSE most chronic diseases if we eat ell, move more, stress less, love more.
Click here to watch: http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/dean-and-anne-ornish
BOOK REFERENCED:
Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases written by Dean Ornish M.D., Anne Ornish
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the author of six books, all national bestsellers. He has received numerous honors.
Anne Ornish is vice president of program development at the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute. She is the creator of the Ornish Lifestyle Medicine digital platform, including Empower, a turnkey learning management system that trains healthcare professionals and participants throughout the country. Anne Ornish has more than twenty-five years of advanced training in yoga and meditation and was featured on the cover of Yoga Journal.
KEY POINTS
• Eat Well: a whole foods, plant-based diet naturally low in fat and sugar and high in flavor. The “Ornish diet” has been rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report every year from 2011 to 2017.
• Move More: moderate exercise such as walking - switch it up and do things you like! More likely to stick with them.
• Stress Less: including meditation and gentle yoga practices - Anne talks about some similar things that we talk about on our podcast. Simple, but good reminders to apply them to your life. Anne says to let forgiveness free you.
• Love More: how love and intimacy transform loneliness into healing. Pam’s advice? Everyday do one good thing a day toward your marriage.
JARS OF JOY QUOTES FROM PODCAST:
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” - Albert Camus
“Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” - William Butler Yeats
“You must return with the bliss and integrate it.
The return is seeing the radiance is everywhere.” - Joseph Campbell
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ” - Boris Pasternak
“Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.” - Marcel Proust
THE TEAM EATS WELL
How does the Talking Joy team eat well? Jennifer drinks the multi-green juice 5x/week to keep healthy and to stay radiant.