moreĤ stars! This was an enlightening read with a simple but powerful message. * Thank you to Netgalley and Penguin Group Avery for my ARC*. It's truly amazing that against all the odds, Jim became a neurosurgeon, but most of all Ruth's teachings helped him become the caring and compassionate human being he is today.
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Ruth taught him all manner of what he saw as magical things, not only to help him cope with the life he'd been dealt, but also how to achieve the future that he wanted. There's no doubt that HE was the adult in his family - caring and worrying about his mother, father and brother, and then came that fateful day when he met Ruth. Jim Doty had a pretty poor childhood both financially, and in terms of nurturing. Ruth taught him all manner of what he saw as magical things, not only to help him cope with the life he'd been dealt The power of positive thinking and mindfulness are nothing new, but this is the first time that I've heard of a child learning such things. The power of positive thinking and mindfulness are nothing new, but this is the first time that I've heard of a child learning such things. He has a lot of talents, writing isn't one of them.more
There wasn't a lot of neuroscience and what there was was influenced by the author's Positive Thinking which had brought him skills and riches beyond compare. I got bored after this and skimmed through his biography. The lady who keeps the store sees something special in this very poor and hungry child and teaches him how to meditate. The magic shop in question is a place that sells paraphenalia for magicians. I don't need 6-steps to relaxation, I don't need to still the voices in my head (no one else talks to me anyway), what I wanted was the author's experiences as a neurosurgeon. The lady who keeps the store sees something special in this very poor and hungry child and te If this had been subtitled "What meditation and positive thinking have done for my previously crappy life" I would have known to stay away from the book. If this had been subtitled "What meditation and positive thinking have done for my previously crappy life" I would have known to stay away from the book.
Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.more But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results-until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart.ĭoty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results-power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others.
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Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at tw Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.