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WHAT THE BODY KNOWS by Aimee Lee Ball 
If summer is, for most of us, a wake-up call that we have bodies, many of us answer the call with reluctance, even dread. The body is a problem to be solved, a disaster to be made the best of. Despite our frantic attention, Tara Brach—a clinical psychologist and the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C.—believes, we're guilty of neglect. We worry so much about how the body looks that we forget to attend to how it feels.
Brach's book, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, posits that while a sense of unworthiness has become habit in our culture, we judge ourselves without knowing who we really are. And the key to that crucial knowledge, she says, is the body—our all-access pass to the truth of how we feel and what we know, an amazing tool that's always available but usually ignored. Tap into what your body is trying to tell you. 
From the June 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. Subscribe now!
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