The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation Leveraging Resili
Given the current climate of economic and environmental uncertainty, it is all too easy for individuals to feel hopeless about their lives and indifferent to the problems of others. But according to leading psychologist, James Garbarino, this is the peak
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James Garbarino
The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation Leveraging Resilience for Life Change
James Garbarino wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Department of Psychology Center for the Human Rights of Children Loyola University Chicago 1032 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60660 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-7743-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7744-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7744-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. Thich Nhat Hanh [1]
December 2008, found me facing the discovery that my heart was beating at 125 beats per minute all the time, rather than its normal rate of 70 per minute, and doing so erratically; I was suffering from atrial fibrillation. This explained the exhaustion I had been experiencing for several months. Many tests and medications later, on March 2, 2009, I found myself in the hospital, less than 24 hours away from open heart surgery. Tests conducted by my cardiologist indicated that the heart rate problem was related to the fact that a valve in my heart was leaking seriously (about a 3.5 on a four point scale of severity). This made it three congenital heart defects that I carried around. Fourteen years earlier I has discovered that one of the two bundles of nerves that led to my heart was not functioning – and presumably never had. This meant that instead of each ventricle of my heart having its own bundle of nerves to control the firing of its muscles, both had to rely on the one functioning bundle (which meant impulses traveled down in to the left ventricle and then jumped over to the right). But further testing showed my heart seemed to have adjusted without detectable damage. The doctor said I might one day need a pacemaker to help compensate for the bundle blockage. Then 6 years ago I was having chest pains and it turned out I had a blocked artery coming from and servicing my heart. This too appeared to be a congenital defect – the artery came out of the wrong place, connected to the wrong side of my heart, and had “kinked” like a hose, causing the blockage.
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