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Body-and-soul workout: What good are buns of steel and abs of iron if your mind is mush, your life is the pits and you don't see the point of living?

Redman, Warren

1999

Overview

Back in ancient Greece, it was known that to be fully healthy we needed to attend to our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual selves. Now, 3,000 or so years later, we tend to have forgotten, or rather ignored the emotional aspect of our fitness. An earlier psychotherapist, Dr. Eugene Heimler, also taught that we need a healthy balance between our satisfactions and frustrations. Heimler, a survivor of concentration camps, later began to understand how he had remained alive and later still, taught at the University of Calgary how we can now survive more successfully in society - by taking care of our emotional health. [Daniel Goleman]'s book is based on several years' research that showed how little emotional intelligence there is around, simply because we tend to value mental intelligence so much more. Heimler showed that where we are not emotionally healthy we do not function well in any areas of our lives.

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