That’s where the third key to change comes in. You need a relationship that helps you “reframe” and learn new ways of thinking. Ornish, like other proponents of preventative medicine, such as Dr. Andrew Weil, promotes a new system of beliefs—a new ideology about health and healing. He thinks patients should be active, not passive. Patients can be heroic, not helpless. Patients can take responsibility for their health rather than living irresponsibly. They can save themselves rather than counting on physicians to save them. Their physical health depends on their psychological, emotional, and
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