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According to Matthew Budd, M.D., author of You Are What You Say: A Harvard Doctor's Six-Week Proven Program for Transforming Stress into Resilience and Vitality, language determines how we feel both physically and emotionally. By changing our words (both what we say to ourselves and others), we can reduce stress, enhance our health, improve communication, and transform our life.
According to Matthew Budd, M.D., author of You Are What You Say: A Harvard Doctor's Six-Week Proven Program for Transforming Stress into Resilience and Vitality, language determines how we feel both physically and emotionally. By changing our words (both what we say to ourselves and others), we can reduce stress, enhance our health, improve communication, and transform our life.
In You Are What You Say, Dr. Budd outlines his "Ways to Wellness Program" developed nearly 20 years ago at the Harvard Community Health Plan, a Harvard Medical School HMO in Boston. The program contains exercises, information, and anecdotes to help you change unhealthful emotions like anger, depression, anxiety, and perfectionism. Dr. Budd prescribes a number of established techniques for reflection and learning, including meditation, automatic writing, listening to the body, and examining the role history plays in shaping who we are. The goal of the exercises is to sharpen awareness, increase acceptance, and encourage new action.
Following the tradition of body-mind researchers Jon Kabat-Zinn and Dr. Herb Benson, You Are What You Say may challenge your views of yourself and change who you are and how you operate. Like much of mind-body medicine, this plan is simple to follow, but results take time and effort. This is not magic-bullet medicine. --Ellen Albertson
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Budd, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, wrote this self-help book in an attempt to capture in print his six-week program for transforming stress into resilience and vitality. Each chapter expounds upon various effects of stress on health and how to change the habits of mind that lead to poor stress management. This book is intended to function as a workbook, and each chapter is followed by a series of exercises meant to drive home the chapter's lessons. Budd's underlying premise that our moods shape our physical and emotional health is widely accepted. Unfortunately, the tone of the book is reminiscent of infomercials, the exercises are somewhat condescending to the reader, and there is nothing new or innovative about this program. While there are some useful bits of advice buried in the text, overall it is a rehashing of countless other stress-control booksDsome of which probably can already be found on the shelves of most public libraries. Not recommended unless requested.DStacey Hathaway-Bell, State Lib. of Louisiana, Baton Rouge
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