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Doty James. - Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeons Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

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2016. : The day that 12-year-old James Doty walked in to his local magic shop is the day that changed his life. Once the neglected son of an alcoholic father and a mother with chronic depression, he has gone on to become a leading neurosurgeon, based at Stanford University. He credits Ruth for this incredible turnaround: the remarkable woman who devoted the summer to transforming his mind and opening his heart.
In this uplifting memoir, Jim explains the visualisation techniques Ruth taught him that gave him the self-esteem to imagine a new future for himself. He examines the science behind mindfulness and why the skills he learned - of focus and attention - now help him to think fast and keep calm in the operating theatre. And he shows us what is possible when you start to change your brain and your heart.
Into the Magic Shop imparts some powerful life lessons about how to live better, and inspires us to believe that we all have inside us the capacity to change our own destiny.
Jim did learn the final lesson opening his heart. He now heads the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford. The Dalai Lama is a significant contributor to CCARE.
Into The Magic Shop, by Dr. James Doty, is the amazing story of what happened by that chance encounter. Jim was only 12 years old at the time. For some strange reason, Ruth, the mother of the magic shop owner saw some hidden potential in Jim and agreed to mentor him over the summer. What follows is one of the most remarkable and magical stories you will ever read.
Jim came from a terribly dysfunctional family. It would have been exceptional for him to have achieved even a modest level of success. But based on the lessons Ruth taught him, he achieved success most people only dream about.
Ruth taught Jim to meditate. She taught him how to focus, how to clear the mind, and how to set intentions. She tried to teach him to open his heart, but that was a lesson he would only learn much later in life.
Jims dream was to become a doctor. He was barely passing undergraduate studies in college. Getting into med school seemed totally out of the question. But because of the magic of meditation, focus and setting intentions, he achieved the impossible. He went on to become a neurosurgeon.
One of the goals he set as a child was to become wealthy. He did that and more. But because he had not learned the most important lesson opening his heart he lost his fortune and had to start over. But going back to the lessons he had learned as a child, he rebuilt his life and career.
The book is a memoir, one of the most exciting and memorial I have read. The book is a real page turner. I found it very difficult to put down. The story starts strong and finishes stronger. You are pulled along as the stories unfold, his life takes on many twists and turns.
Jim did learn the final lesson opening his heart. He now heads the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford. The Dalai Lama is a significant contributor to CCARE.

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Into the Magic Shop is pure magic! That a child from humble beginnings could become a professor of neurosurgery and the founder of a center that studies compassion and altruism at a major university, as well as an entrepreneur and philanthropist, is extraordinary enough. But it is Dotys ability to describe his journey so lyrically, and then his willingness to share his methods, that make this book a gem.

Abraham Verghese, MD, author of Cutting for Stone

Once in a generation, someone is able to articulate the compelling mystery within his or her life story in such a way that it captures the imagination of others and inspires them to align with what is deepest and best in themselves and allow it to manifest and flower. There is plenty of magic in this book, but the deepest magic of all is that Jim was openheartedly guided to start practicing that aligning when he was twelve, and trusted it enough to never lose the thread completely, even in the hardest of times. Behold what is emerging now.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, author of Full Catastrophe Living

True healing is both biological and spiritual. When you experience love and compassion, your body shifts into homeostasis and self-regulation. When you heal yourself, you heal others. The reverse is also true. Your acts of kindness and compassion are the true healing of the world. In this extraordinary book, Dr. James Doty shows you the way.

Deepak Chopra, MD, coauthor of Super Brain

Jim has written a truly extraordinary book. He shares with us the trauma of his childhood filled with pain, despair, and shame through the gifts of spirit that blazed the path for him to fulfillment, love, and wisdom. Indeed, Into the Magic Shop offers each of us this gift. I am in awe of Jims skill in conveying it through the magic of this book.

Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness

A compelling narrative that demonstrates the power of compassion to change not only a life but the world. Powerful and moving.

Chip Conley, author of Emotional Equations

Into the Magic Shop is not only a moving testimony that keeps the reader enthralled throughout the book but also a powerful exhortation to live a more compassionate and meaningful life. Beautiful and highly inspiring.

Matthieu Ricard, author of Altruism

When a top neurosurgeon opens his heart to talk about his own difficult childhood that provided recipes for loneliness, fear, rage, and shame, you know you are in for a deeply moving and insightful journey into the suffering and fragility of the human mind. Beautifully written, deeply original, this is an extraordinarily moving and exceptionally practical book into the magic tricks for calming and cultivating our minds. Here are lived ways to cope and engage with the realities and struggles of life that we all just find ourselves in. The seeds of compassion are being planted; we must now cultivate them.

Paul Gilbert, PhD, OBE, author of The Compassionate Mind

Into the Magic Shop is a moving and inspiring story of transformation. It provides us lessons about how to live better and more compassionate lives.

Paul Ekman, PhD, author of Emotions Revealed

Dr. Dotys powerful book is a testament to how faith and compassion extend beyond religion, race, and nationality and can help an individual overcome adversity and personal limitations. It is an inspiration.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation

I can think of no comparable book with such a brilliantly created narrative following the remarkable arc of the authors life: From growing up as a poor, disadvantaged child into a brilliant neurosurgeon and wealthy entrepreneur, Dotys story moves deftly, from using his scalpel to save the lives of his patients to using his compassionate heart to enrich the lives of others. Profound, deeply moving, and emotionally resonating.

Philip Zimbardo, PhD, author of The Lucifer Effect

Into the Magic Shop will literally rewire your brain. It is a candid and personal story about a life transformed by a chance encounter in a magic shop. It is a truly optimistic and inspirational testament to the power of compassion and the ability to overcome adversity and discover your true potential.

Glenn Beck, nationally syndicated radio host and founder of The Blaze

This is a story of faith beyond the bounds and barriers of religion. A story of hope in the face of lifes great challenges and of magic that opens the doors of potential and healing. Into the Magic Shop is the journey of a brain surgeon whose life is marked by success and failure and at all times laced together in a rich fabric of hope, kindness, and compassion. A book that will touch heart, soul, and mind.

Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, director emeritus of religion at the Chautauqua Institute and former executive director of the World Council of Churches

While we dont always get to choose what happens in life, we can choose to cultivate our compassion and wisdom as a result. In his capacity to recognize and accept that life is a tapestry of failures and successes, neurosurgeon James Doty shares the wonder and science of the relationship between head and heartin all its pain and promise. Into the Magic Shop is a compelling journey about a little boy struggling with personal challenges and how the unforeseeable consequence of wandering into a magic shop transforms his life. This book will transform your life as well.

Lisa Kristine, Lucie Awardwinning humanitarian photographer

Every so often you read a book that you cant put down until you have read the very last word. Into the Magic Shop is such a book. This poignant, redemptive story will take your breath away. It will make you laugh and cry, rattle your mind, break open your heart, and shake your soul as it amuses, enchants, and illuminates. Dr. James Doty, a well-known neurosurgeon, uses the twin scalpels of wisdom and compassion to operate on our consciousness. He is a surgeon of the soulan atheist who will have you gasping OMG! This book is an explosion of grace and enlightenment.

Rabbi Irwin Kula, co-president of the National Jewish Center for Leadership and Learning

Dotys memoir is as inspiring as it is riveting. In bringing a neurosurgeons mind to matters of the heart, he sheds light not only on what matters most in life but also on how to achieve it. As you ride the ups and downs of his life with him, you cant help but share in the magic.

David DeSteno, PhD, author of The Truth About Trust

The magic of Jims story, and the insight with which he shares his life with us all, is a great gift, and one which I encourage everyone to receive with open arms. His words, and his lettersCDEFGHIJKLdeserve our full attention, our full intention, and the reward is the discovery of the power of opening ones heart to each other and to the world.

Scott Kriens, codirector of the 1440 Foundation and chairman of Juniper Networks

Dr. Dotys story is a captivating, archetypal tale spanning desperate heartache to a zenith of privilege and success, then landing in a billow of thoughtful, dedicated tenderness. Touched on the verge of adolescence by a strip mall fairy godmother whose magic wand was selfless, affectionate coaching on inner life and purpose, Jim transcended the common pitfalls of reflexive anxiety and diffidenceand gratuitous wealthand with grit discovered his own love for and profound commitment to humanity.

Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas, PhD, science director of the Greater Good Science Center

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