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Awareness, in and of itself, is transformative.

—Ken Wilber, American psychologist and philosopher

Centering prepares you to turn your attention and awareness to your body and your life. This section guides those observations so that you gain a new understanding of yourself, your gut, and your habits. By looking at yourself objectively, you can begin to see the interconnectedness of everything you do and how it affects your health. Observing your gut, your stresses, your diet, and your sleep gives you clues about the nature of the imbalances in your life that culminate as intestinal distress.

The idea that healing comes from finding a proper balance in your life is nothing new. Hippocrates, the ancient Greek known as the father of Western medicine, wrote that health depends on a balance between diet and other aspects of life, including interaction with the environment. By diet, he didn't mean a “weight-loss program.” The original meaning of diet included all aspects of life under human control—one's relationship with air and water, food and drink, motion and rest, sleep and wakefulness, and feelings and passions as well as one's elimination of bodily waste.

Our culture seems to have lost the sense for the importance of nutrition and lifestyle. However, these are central to the CORE program, which, like ancient Greek medicine, emphasizes observation for self-knowledge. From awareness, you can turn to self-healing in Part III, “Restore” and Part IV, “Ensure.”

Part II consists of these chapters:

 2 Observe Your Gut

 3 Observe Your Stresses

 4 Observe Your Diet

 5 Observe Your Sleep

 6 Observe Your Life: Your Health and Wellness Autobiography