★8 Ways To Connect [DR. ANDREW WEIL]

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Posted on 13/06/2013. Last edited on 08/02/2016.

Feeling whole and connected to the Earth and others takes effort, but it is rewarding work. By bringing your focus outside of yourself, you will learn to reach out to people and to the world around you in positive ways. Giving of yourself, from spending time with friends and those in need to taking care of the environment or a companion animal, also promotes positive interaction.

Here are eight steps to help you get connected:

8 Ways To Connect _{DR. ANDREW WEIL}

Dr. Weil is an internationally-recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care. Approximately 10 million copies of Dr. Weil’s books have been sold, including Spontaneous Healing, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Eating Well for Optimum Health, The Healthy Kitchen, Healthy Aging, and Why Our Health Matters.

Online, he is the editorial director of DrWeil.com, the leading web resource for healthy living based on the philosophy of integrative medicine. He can be found on Facebook at facebook.com/DrWeil, Twitter at twitter.com/DrWeil, and Dr. Weil’s Daily Health Tips blog at drweilblog.com.

Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, where he is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health and the Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology. Dr. Weil received both his medical degree and his undergraduate AB degree in biology (botany) from Harvard University.

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What I,ve heard from someone years ago,I think it was Wayne Dyer that said,“you can still love yourself and have compassion for yourself even
if you are perhaps,addicted to something“and the more I thought about
that statement,I said to myself,that I have a few choices,a)I can
continue to hate myself because I,m not abstaining from the cigarettes,or food or any of the several dozen potential vices.
b)I could decide I,ve had enough of this addiction and I think it,s
time I find a way to quit.c)I could continue with the addiction and be
gentle with myself,and just nuture and respect myself,knowing that it will run it,s course,and all the self criticism,could be adding fuel
to the fire,that I know I,m eventually gonna have to exstinguish anyway.
Option c is the one I,ve went with over the years.
Usually addiction starts out as lots of fun)then it becomes fun and
also trouble)then mostly trouble, misery and self destruction.
Then recovery,hope,gratitude and another one of lifes storms weathered.