The Fatigue Prescription Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life

by Clever, Linda Hawes; Ornish, Dean

• ISBN13: 9781573443807
• ISBN10: 1573443808
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-09
• Publisher: Viva Editions

Summary

Are you frequently stressed out? Is your energy level not what it used to be? Are you living a to-do list instead of a life? If any of this sounds familiar, The Fatigue Prescription is for you. Linda Hawes Clever, MD. Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and founder of RENEW, provides a straight-forward guide to taking care of your whole self. Filled with tips, self-assessment guides and practical wisdom, this is distinguished doctor's best advice on how to create a healthy and meaningful life. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xix
Introduction: The Renew-O-Meter	p. xxi
The Diagnosis	p. 1
How Did You Get So Busy? How Did You Get So Tired?	p. 3
Inclinations You are Born With: Your Inheritance	p. 5
Growing Up	p. 6
Your Energy Bucket	p. 8
Courage and Pride	p. 17
The Four Steps	p. 20
Your Own Checkup	p. 23
How are you Feeling and Doing These Days?	p. 25
Body Beautiful (or at least Body Healthy)	p. 28
The State of Your Spirit	p. 37
Your Relationships	p. 40
Your Learning Checkup	p. 44
Your Attitude Checkup	p. 47
The Problems and the Promise	p. 53
Benefits of the Fatigue Prescription	p. 56
Reaping Benefits Requires Risks	p. 58
Going Beyond Balance	p. 61
The Renewing Remedy	p. 63
The Four Steps	p. 65
Awareness	p. 66
Reflection	p. 69
Conversation	p. 77
Plan-and-Act	p. 79
The Values Proposition	p. 83
Values and Fatigue	p. 85
How Values Work	p. 86
Recalling and Revising Your Own Values	p. 89
Your Current Values	p. 94
Discovering What You Really Want and How to Get it	p. 97
What Do You Really Want?	p. 98
How to Get What You Really Want	p. 101
Your Own Stockpile for Renewing	p. 110
Get in Shape	p. 119
Relationships	p. 121
Spirituality and Religion	p. 121
Building Your Body's Staying Power: Physical Fitness	p. 122
You've Got Attitude	p. 134
Renewing Rituals	p. 141
Liberated From Fatigue and Staying Renewed	p. 147
The Fatigue Prescription as a Family Matter	p. 148
Making Good Choices	p. 149
Contending with Fear, Anger and Procrastination	p. 150
Updating Your Values	p. 154
Making Time	p. 155
Maintaining a Positive Perspective	p. 156
Staying in Touch with Your Lifelines	p. 157
Saying No-and Yes-at the Right Time	p. 165
Staying Up	p. 170
Afterword	p. 173
Resources	p. 174
About Renew	p. 183
About The Author	p. 185
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