Elizabeth Lesser: Say your truths and seek them in others
Элизабет Лессер: Говори свою правду и ищи её в других
Elizabeth Lesser helps her readers and students transform their lives after brushes with pain, adversity and life's myriad problems. Full bio
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for all of them.
заложила основу для них всех.
throughout my 20s.
я была акушеркой на домашних родах.
valuable and sometimes surprising things,
важным и иногда удивительным вещам,
в 2 часа ночи,
who's fainted at the sight of blood.
упавшего в обморок при виде крови.
that stuck with me or guided me
или направляло меня,
and started other jobs.
и занялась другой работой.
with a unique worth.
ценным и неповторимым.
to describe that spark,
я использую слово «душа»,
that comes close to naming
в английском, приближённо называющее то,
as a snowflake,
был неповторим, как снежинка,
of things happen to us
с нами происходит много того,
eccentricities and authenticity.
свою эксцентричность и подлинность.
of our time uncomfortable in our own skin,
неуютно в своём собственном теле.
authenticity deficit disorder.
синдром дефицита подлинности.
from laboring women.
чтобы оставаться открытой,
у женщины выглядит так.
it has to stretch from this
растягиваться от такого размера
that would happen
которая происходила,
сопротивляться боли
of the universe took notice
or painful things happen to me
what I learned from the mothers:
что узнала от матерей:
что она принесла с собой.
from Albert Einstein.
при родах, но...
Albert Einstein concluded
Альберт Эйнштейн пришёл к выводу,
experience of life
когда мы живём подобно белке в колесе, —
is this whole other dimension
существует совсем другое измерение,
and the future merge
и будущее соединяются
this state, this dimension,
это состояние, это измерение
hours and hours,
священного трепета.
I took with me from midwifery.
со мной со времён акушерства.
or painful, try to stay open.
постарайся остаться открытым.
step off your hamster wheel
выходи из беличьего колеса
throughout my life,
important job of my life thus far.
на данный момент работу в своей жизни.
came out of remission
вышла из ремиссии
was a bone marrow transplant.
была пересадка костного мозга.
we found a match for her,
мы нашли для неё подходящий вариант,
I was my sister's perfect genetic match,
с сестрой полное соответствие по генам,
there's lots of things.
and there's protection.
assembling many of those first layers
мы начинаем собирать многие из тех слоёв,
со своей сестрой,
is pretty straightforward.
in the cancer patient
полностью разрушают
marrow cells from a donor.
костного мозга, взятыми у донора.
engraft in the patient.
прижились у пациента.
transplants are fraught with danger.
костного мозга чревата опасностями.
through the near-lethal chemotherapy,
почти летальную химиотерапию,
с другими проблемами.
a long history of love,
долгая история любви,
of rejection and attack,
отторжения и агрессии,
to bigger betrayals.
до больши́х предательств.
the kind of the relationship
in all kinds of relationships,
состоящие в каких-то отношениях,
the dangers of rejection or attack,
отторжения и агрессии,
transplant up to the doctors,
костного мозга докторам,
to call our "soul marrow transplant?"
назовём «пересадкой клеток души?»
we had caused each other,
которую причинили друг другу,
I turned to my parents' holy text:
я взяла священное для моих родителей
why we should visit a therapist
посетить психотерапевта,
and transplanted into her body.
и пересажен в её тело.
I made up in my head."
что выдумала в своей голове».
in our heads that kept us separate.
которые держали нас порознь.
of each of those cells
for the rest of your life,"
до конца твоей жизни», —
our relationship."
в наших отношениях».
do all sorts of risky things,
делать всякие рискованные вещи:
or jumping out of an airplane
или выпрыгивать из самолёта.
нескольким сеансам терапии,
мы сблизились до мозга костей.
накопившиеся за годы
кроме любви.
to undergo the bone marrow harvest,
пошла на извлечение костного мозга,
of harvest and transplant,
with another human being,
перед другим человеческим существом,
our vulnerable souls.
и причиняет боль.
after the harvest.
моего костного мозга.
farm-to-table event --
фермерское мероприятие —
more and more time together.
всё больше времени вместе.
this kind of work.
этот вид работы.
of real life and important work.
настоящей жизни и важной работы.
and the financial cost --
и финансовых издержках —
seems to have forgotten all about.
кажется, совсем забыла.
was the best year of her life,
был лучшим в её жизни,
жизнь не казалась ей такой сладкой,
we had done with each other,
she'd always needed to say.
что ей всегда было небходимо высказать.
with the people in my life.
с людьми в моей жизни.
I sought the truth of others.
я искала правду в других.
the final chapter of this story
midwifery had trained me.
акушерство подготовило меня.
the doctors could do.
не могли сделать.
a couple of months to live.
to the pain of our past,
и открываясь ему,
with just one of them.
for a life-or-death situation
that matter to you,
важные для вас отношения,
of first responder,
службы оперативного реагирования,
the first courageous step
для наших родственников,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Lesser - Wellness specialistElizabeth Lesser helps her readers and students transform their lives after brushes with pain, adversity and life's myriad problems.
Why you should listen
Elizabeth Lesser is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Lesser's first book, The Seeker's Guide, chronicles her years at Omega and distills lessons learned into a potent guide for growth and healing. Her New York Times bestselling book, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (Random House), has sold more than 300,000 copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Her latest book, Marrow: A Love Story (Harper Collins/September 2016), is a memoir about Elizabeth and her younger sister, Maggie, and the process they went through when Elizabeth was the donor for Maggie’s bone marrow transplant.
Lesser cofounded Omega Institute in 1977 -- a time when a variety of fresh ideas were sprouting in American culture. Since then, the institute has been at the forefront of holistic education, offering workshops and trainings in: integrative medicine, prevention, nutrition, and the mind/body connection; meditation and yoga; cross-cultural arts and creativity; ecumenical spirituality; and social change movements like women's empowerment and environmental sustainability. Lesser is also the cofounder of Omega's Women's Leadership Center, which grew out of the popular Women & Power conference series featuring women leaders, activists, authors and artists from around the world. Each year more than 30,000 people participate in Omega's programs on its campus in Rhinebeck, New York and at urban and travel sites, and more than a million people visit its website for online learning.
A student of the Sufi master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, for many years, Lesser has also studied with spiritual teachers, healers, psychologists and philosophers from other traditions. In 2008 she helped Oprah Winfrey produce a ten-week online seminar based on Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth. The webinar was viewed by more than 8 million people worldwide. She was a frequent host on Oprah's "Soul Series," a weekly radio show on Sirius/XM, and a guest on Oprah's "Super Soul Sunday." In 2011, she gave a TED Talk, "Take 'the Other' to lunch ," in which she called for civility and understanding as we negotiate our differences as human beings.
Lesser attended Barnard College, where she studied literature, and San Francisco State University, where she received a teaching degree. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, in Palo Alto, California. Early in her career she was a midwife and birth educator. Today, besides writing and her work at Omega Institute, she lends her time to social and environmental causes and is an avid walker, cook and gardener. She lives with her family in New York's Hudson River Valley.
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