The Big V

"We can only be intimate to the degree that we are willing to be open and vulnerable." Dean Ornish, M.D.

"An important reason why early relationships are so predictive of later illness is that these patterns of relating do not change very much in most people over time. Modifying such behaviors as diet, exercise, and smoking is hard enough. Changing our ongoing pattern of relating to others is even more difficult" (Ornish, p. 38).

[Crap, this describes the human condition I know, but how long will each one of us continue playing out communication patterns that we have internalized since birth even though those patterns are like poison in our psychological make-up?]