People who come to the MBSR program at the hospital quickly learn that stress is an inevitable part of life. Although it is true that we can learn, by making intelligent choices, not to make things worse for ourselves in certain ways, there are many things in life over which we have little or no control. Stress is part of life, part of being human, intrinsic to the human condition itself. But that does not mean that we have to be victims in the face of forces large and small in our lives, difficult and rending as they may sometimes be. Believe it or not, it is possible to learn to turn toward
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