Claire Conger

Any book that gives me insight into why things are happening to me is priceless. Your Body Believes Every Work You Say by Barbara Hoberman Levine is just such a book.

I read Ms Levine’s section about patients anticipatory thoughts about radiation treatment for cancer predicting their results. The patient who thought of the radiation as “black and red arrows spraying his body” had a bad result while the patient who thought of the radiation as a “golden beam of energy” had a good result. (See page 164.)

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Thanks to reader Ada for turning us on to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.”

Read Ada’s comment on Wow! Oprah is Working with Happiness Guru Eckhart Tolle.

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The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, a book of seven interconnected short stories by Melissa Bank, has excellent advice about dating: Be yourself!

Dr Phil, I’m sure, would agree.

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It occurred to me this morning that anger is a lot like loneliness.

The difference between feeling lonely and simply being alone is that when you’re lonely you have the expectation and desire of not being by yourself—you expected that you would be sharing with someone.

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I didn’t go snowboarding this week because I didn’t like the weather report, which turned out to be too inaccurate for trip-planning purposes. Grr!

So instead, I went to yoga class. Riding my bike home, who should I encounter riding his bike to work? None other than Pseudo Boyfriend #2, the one whose calls this January I did not return.

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