I Am Featured in the New York Times Today
August 12, 2010 by dr. lam · 3 Comments
I was featured in the New York Times today with my patient Phu Pham for Botox Jaw Reduction. I thought I would share with you the link to the story.
Dr. Lam's Patient Phu Pham After Botox
Mindfulness Mondays 62: Forgiveness
August 2, 2010 by dr. lam · 3 Comments
I watched the movie Invictus and was moved profoundly by Nelson Mandela’s quote: ”Forgiveness liberates the soul. It eliminates fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.” He said that in the movie when his bodyguards were angry about his hiring the old Apartheid bodyguards to help him in his administration. Mandela, after 27 years in hard labor and solitary confinement in a small dingy room, gave absolute forgiveness to his captors. Can we do the same?
Mindfulness Mondays 61: The Great Hunger
July 26, 2010 by dr. lam · Leave a Comment
Wayne Dyer opens his book, The Shift, with a passage from Hasten Slowly, a recounting of Sir Laurens van der Post, who spent time with the Kalahari Bushmen:
The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about two “hungers.”
There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger.
The Little Hunger wants food for the belly;
but the Great Hunger,
the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning….
There’s ultimately only one thing that makes
human beings deeply and profoundly bitter,
and that is to have thrust upon them
a life without meaning.
How well are you satisfying both of your hungers? What will you do today to make sure that you are doing something to satisfy your great hunger?
Mindfulness Mondays 60: The Cracked Pot
July 19, 2010 by dr. lam · 2 Comments
Marcy, who works with me, gave me this story. It is a great one. Enjoy!
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.
One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot
was perfect and always delivered a full portion
of water.
At the end of the long walks from the stream to the
house, the cracked pot arrived only half full..
For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman
bringing home only one and a half pots of water.
Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.
But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own
imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half
of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be bitter
failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the
stream.
I’m ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side
causes water to leak out all the way back to your
house.’
The old woman smiled, ‘Did you notice that there are
flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other
pot’s side?’
‘That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so
I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and
every day while we walk back, you water them.
‘For two years I have been able to pick these
beautiful flowers to decorate the table.
Without you being just the way you are, there would not
be this beauty to grace the house.
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks
and flaws we each have that make our lives together so
very interesting and rewarding.
You’ve just got to take each person for what they are
and look for the good in them.
Mindfulness Mondays 59: Live Before You Die
July 12, 2010 by dr. lam · Leave a Comment
First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying 
I love this quote. It helps us to remember that life is for the living. We need to enjoy the ride and not worry so much about our destination because the destination is not that important, really.