Don't Just Do Something.Sit There

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Paul Pearsall doesn't just give a good lecture on the mind-body connection, he puts on a one-man show. In his aloha shirt and with a lei from his adopted home, Hawaii, around his neck, he'll demonstrate the hula as he shows slides of the latest psychoneuroimmunology research and punctuates scholarly refutations of conventional scientific wisdom with earthy one-liners and even an occasional Hawaiian song. Yet as entertaining as the intellectual luau he offers can be, Pearsall is dead serious about getting out his message. He wants the audience not only to hear it, but to feel it in their bones.

Our world, he informs a hotel ballroom filled with mental health professionals that he …