Summary of The Well-Lived Life By Gladys McGarey: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age

By Willie M. Joseph

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Dr. Gladys McGarey is a centenarian still-practicing doctor and the mother of holistic medicine. She shares her six actionable secrets to living with joy, vitality, and purpose at any age. These include spending energy wildly, moving spiritually, mentally, and physically, finding the everyday "juice" that helps stay oriented in life's purpose, building a meaningful community, discovering deep learnings from pain and setbacks, and loving yourself and others into healing. She has an inspiring plan for a healthier and more joyful future for all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: May 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223869016

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Introduction

TOWARD LIFE

The most important details in this text are that the author is a doctor in her second century and has been asked the secret of a long, healthy, happy life. She has come to understand that the point of medicine is to create a suitably healthy environment in which the soul can fulfill its purpose, and that true health has nothing to do with diagnosing a disease or prolonging life just for the sake of it. She believes that each individual is part of a greater whole and that to understand this broader and more complete view of illness and healing, we need to understand how well-being really works. The most important details in this text are that holistic medicine is not necessarily what we call alternative medicine, but rather an approach that unites body, mind, and spirit. It is about treating the whole patient, not just the disease, and seeing each individual as a complete and complex being with a unique set of physical, psychological, and spiritual characteristics.

The word holistic combines whole and holy, not in a religious sense, but in a way that deeply respects the perfection of each human soul and sees the body as an instrument that assists the soul in its tasks. The holistic medical profession emphasizes that the mind can influence the body, and that it can be used to guide us forward. This approach is based on the idea that life's challenges point us to the part of our soul that is ready to transform. It is important to approach our own suffering with curiosity and ask it what it may have to teach us. The holistic medical profession does not encourage martyrdom or suggest that suffering is deserved, but rather suggests that shifting perspective is the only part of the work.

The most important details in this text are that true health and happiness are about being connected to our own life force and living with the world around us as an engaged, participatory experience. To be truly alive, we must nd the life force within ourselves and direct our energy toward it. This shifts our orientation, calling us to face everything in life and engage with it. When life gets tough, we become curious and engage even more. Even in the depths of our challenge, we still have access to gratitude.

The most important details in this text are that the author has had the privilege to support patients who have connected more deeply with their soul's purpose, embraced joy more fully, and learned how to accept love and care from sometimes unlikely sources. They have also been influenced by a host of extraordinary people, including their parents, siblings, aunts, and public figures. The author has also learned something new every day and has had many opportunities to practice what they preach. The author aims to help readers explore their own unique body and soul and take charge of their own life and healing. Through stories, they will connect with their six secrets on a personal level, which include science, questioning, and simple exercises to ground them in their heart and body.

The exercises are small practices that can inspire a holistic perspective on how to live life well, and the author encourages readers to practice them enough times to become habits. The author believes that it is important to make these ideas real by feeling them in their bodies. The most important details in this text are that the author was on a train from Delhi to Bombay (now Mumbai) with her family in early 1930, feeling sad to be returning to the United States. They were granted a furlough and were going to stay near their father's family wheat farm in Kansas. When the train started to slow, a crowd had gathered along the railroad tracks, with women dressed in their best clothes and children dancing and throwing owers.

Everyone in the first-class part of the train continued to sit primly as if nothing were happening. The train stopped and a small man wearing a white dhoti and carrying a larthi was seen in front of the crowd. Gandhiji stopped, bent down, and received a bow from a child, showing love from his whole being. He stood up to continue marching and looked back over the crowd, viewing those with their faces pressed against the window bars. The narrator was witnessing Gandhi's Salt March, a nonviolent protest against the British taxing salt.

He looked at the narrator with an unforgettable love that recognized their sadness, fear, and hope, and led the march away. The narrator has profound respect for what they have been through and is hopeful for what is to come. They can guide them with their six secrets and offer all the love in the world.

SECRET I

You Are Here for a Reason

THE JUICE

The narrator was sent to an English-speaking school in Mussoorie, India, from the age of five. They were a grubby kid who preferred playing in the dirt and climbing trees to reading books. Their first-grade teacher often singled them out for their

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