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They have each one of us, but ... to change your lifestyle is difficult.
At heart, we are sure that if we give up bad habits and become really necessary, we will be able to pull myself together.
For Martin, the 50-year-old lawyer, it was a matter of life and death when the coronary artery bypass his second set, it was clear that the third place is impossible. We had to immediately quit smoking, go on a diet and start to play sports - the effect of the treatment of heart disease in the first place does not depend on pills.
If not - likely to survive he was little. Still, Martin could not decide - to give myself the word and keep it.
And you could? Yes? Are you really sure? Nine to one that is you would not have 90% of patients (those surveyed two years after surgery) their way of life did not change.
Note: we are about the same as we, the people - educated, informed, today. About us, it does not change anything in my life. Maybe it's too much - just sport, diet ...
Now, if I had to take a day, for example, a tablet, we would have coped, right? Again, no! The figures confirm that a third of those who prescribed medication to lower cholesterol levels, despite the urgent medical advice, stop taking less than a year ...
So what's going on? What we resist so fiercely?
Martin overweight, have long abandoned the sport, moved only by car, having sex less frequently (had problems with erection), after divorce quarreled with their own children, they are rarely seen, and suffered intense atmosphere of these meetings internally.
When his law firm bought by a large firm, the work has become more - and he stopped to meet with friends, with whom he played in the evenings amateur jazz. So how could he decide to quit cigarettes also favorite desserts, French fries?
Always they were close - the last friend, faithful, bringing solace when waiting for him was more nowhere. And then, the idea for a few years to renew themselves such a life in the depths of his soul did not inspire.
At least not enough to deprive yourself of habits, still gives him pleasure. No abstract information (even if the threat of his own life) does not motivate us.
Someone threw a cigarette, reading a pack "Smoking - the cause of fatal diseases"?
Cherished way to change is through the area of emotions: it is necessary to what we intend to carry out, allowing us to feel your life happier and fuller.
So we have more fun, changing, rather than leaving things as they are.
And Martin all failed: help group lessons psychological support. He realized sooner goodbye that closes you alone, enters the body, which is itself already can barely stand, the more alive you will feel yourself.
Stop choking; enjoy the soft, intoxicating fatigue after physical exertion; I notice how the back morning erection; reduce, even without drugs, cholesterol - and through it all again feel like the master of his own body.
But the main thing - he restored relations with children: Martin once again have the desire to teach his son to play jazz. And help her daughter to make your own website on the Internet. Finally, refocus its work on conflict resolution.
Making it became less, but felt that more useful to people and work for the sake of harmony and justice. Three years later he had already spoken with a smile: "My disease - the best thing that happened to me in my life! "
The famous American cardiologist Dean Ornish (Dean Ornish) proved that heart disease recede due support groups, which advocate meditation, emotional openness, particularly diet, exercise and avoiding smoking habit.
In his book "Love and survival", he accurately summed up the opening of Martin:
"The best motive to change - not the fear of death, but the joy of the fact that you live in! "
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