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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. 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

YOU ARE WHAT YOU SAY:
I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS BOOK AND FIND IT VERY INTERESTING AND WELL WRITTEN. WHAT I DO FIND AMAZING IN THIS KIND OF BOOK AND IN SEMINARS SUCH AS EST OR CURRENTLY THE FORUM (LANDMARK EDU.) IS THAT THERE IS NEVER A MENTION OF ALFRED'S KORZYBSKI'S LANDMARK BOOK SCIENCE AND SANITY, ALSO HARRY WEINBERG'S LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXISTENCE AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST S. HAYAKAWAS'S LANGUAGE IN THOUGHT AND ACTION. ALL OF THESE BOOKS DISCUSS THE EFFECTS OF OUR LANGUAGING ON OURSELVES. I CONSIDER THESE PEOPLE TO BE THE REAL PIONNERS IN THIS TYPE OF NON-ARISTOLEAN TYPE OF THINKING.

Where body meets mind meets spirit ...:
I am delighted to now have a book available to use myself and recommend to clients which synthesizes the domains of somatics, linguistics and health. Matthew describes our teacher, Richard Heckler Ph.D., as an "exemplar of the qualities of teachership", and Matthew is himself an exemplar of the "consilience thinking" he describes, transforming the sometimes dense and difficult material of Flores and Maturana \otwo of our foremost thinkers\c into a readable and enjoyable book. I highly recommend this book for psychotherapists, coaches and anyone interested in personal growth.

Scientific analysis of the relationship bet. mind and body:
Thought-provoking book. This book is not a collection of mere conjectures. This book is solidly based on sientific data and experience as a medical doctor. A must-read for people who are mentally healthy as well as people who are not mentally well.

How to become a better communicator:
Because conversation is so much a part of our everyday lives, we tend to take it for granted. Dr. Budd's book does a wonderful job teaching how to create win-win interactions with people in all aspects of our lives. I relate it to creating great dialogue as the most effective form of interpersonal communication. We all have a personal communication style that sums up how we behave in everyday conversations and how what we say and feel can effect our health. Dr. Budd made it possible for me to understand through his exercises in the book and the personal stories throughout the book how to get through my own stumbling blocks. I can't wait to see the results! I love and cherish this book. JG

A Sacred Space for Designing Life:
In this book Matt Budd produces the magic of poets, artists of the first rate, and a few others: he gives us fresh access to ourselves as the material for making a life, and contributes to our skills for designing our lives. Inevitably, and by design, this book appears in the tradition of "self help." It is that, and the combination of experiences, explanation of phenomena, examples, and exercises that the authors use to bring us the help is effective and beautifully done. However, the book is a lot more than that at the same time. For example, I put it alongside the great plays and the great poets as a source of reflection, insight, and inspiration into what I am doing with my life, and alongside meditation and prayer for creating space in my life to consider what is important, be grateful for life, and get ready to take action on what I am not satisfied with. And there is more: the authors give us access to a group of thinkers who are not accessible to the general public today, because the foundations of their thinking are so recently built that they aren't even taught at most universities. The best examples are the radical new interpretation of language and action of Fernando Flores and the biology of Humberto Maturana. Each has written, but their books are difficult. Budd does a beautiful job of taking us simply and clearly into these new worlds. A book not to be missed! Thank you, Matthew Budd, and thank you Amazon for making this kind of conversation possible for all of us.