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Many Voices, one journey. Sounds true.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Maushing Nee, known as Dr. Mao, a doctor of traditional Chinese

medicine. Dr. Mao has lectured internationally, appeared on television, and been featured in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times,

and is currently featured as an expert on Yahoo Health, where he writes a blog about longevity.

With Sounds True, Dr. Mao has released the audio program,

Meditations to Live to Be 100,

and has a forthcoming release through Sounds True called

Chi Meditations, Guided Visualizations for Self Healing.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Dr. Mao and I spoke about the mind as an ally in the healing process.

What he's learned from his study of centenarians, the correlation between caloric intake and longevity and how

certain exercises can help us bring the mind and the body into harmony.

Dr. Mao also shares a simple awareness meditation. Here's my

conversation with the very talented and articulate Dr. Mao.

Dr. Mao, you're a 38th generation doctor of Chinese medicine

and an heir to a wisdom tradition that has been passed down through

74 generations and I'm curious what it was like to be born into such a family and didn't you experience a lot of pressure to I mean people talk about the pressure to be a doctor I mean this seems off the chart potentially.

Well it would sound like a lot of pressure and I appreciate what you're saying and but you know I

think growing up you especially in a culture I was born raised in Asia, so in the culture were that you just accept it, you don't struggle, you don't fight it, you accept what you're told and so all the trainings and all of

that that I went through but but for me it actually there's more to it than that

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