When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering. Dean Ornish More Quotes by Dean Ornish More Quotes From Dean Ornish An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy products and fish in your diet. Eat at home more with your family and friends. Dean Ornish family eating home heart Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival. Dean Ornish connections quality survival people I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed. Dean Ornish you power time believe When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival. Dean Ornish friends family time long Awareness is the first step in healing. Dean Ornish first-step step awareness healing Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer. Dean Ornish slow stop changes lifestyle Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone. Dean Ornish diet small lifestyle heart Make choices to empower yourself. Dean Ornish empower make yourself choices If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure. Dean Ornish enjoy reading eating food How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, I get all of the calories and none of the pleasure. Instead, if I eat mindfully, paying attention and savoring what I'm eating, smaller portions of food can be exquisitely satisfying. Dean Ornish you important eating food In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it. Dean Ornish wisdom time love war Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education. Dean Ornish medical medicine practice education The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. Dean Ornish need community food water When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life. Dean Ornish day health food life Intimacy is healing. Dean Ornish intimacy healing When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live there, you feel seen. Not just the good things you've done, the stuff you put on your resume. You know they've seen you in your dark times, when you've messed up - but they're still there. Dean Ornish feel good you family Preventing cardiovascular disease can help free up critical resources for treating HIV/AIDS and other illnesses. Dean Ornish help free resources disease A little humility goes a long way. Dean Ornish long-way humility long way Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes. Dean Ornish you lifestyle fate change The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly. Dean Ornish better day you lifestyle
