The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting: Ageing without growing old - Softcover

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'The resistance to the prevailing jeunisme - youngism - has been led in recent years by Marie de Hennezel...When she reached 60 she turned her hand from books on dying to the art of ageing. Her bestselling manifesto, The Warmth of the Heart Prevents the Body from Rusting, is being published in Britain next month... Disciples flock to Hennezel's seminars to learn the key to accepting ageing. The lesson is that when we have made peace with ourselves, "it is not bitterness and despair that inhabit us, but a new feeling of unimaginable liberty and an immense tenderness".' --The Times

'Next month sees the publication in Britain of Marie de Hennezel's bestseller The Warmth of the Heart Prevents the Body from Rusting. The title refers to a song from a place in Japan where old people are regarded as lucky charms, and the book claims to do for ageing what French Women Don't Get Fat did for dieting...' --Sunday Times Style magazine

'A moving meditation on ageing, suggesting ways to approach the later years with anticipation and optimism.' --Choice magazine

'A psychotherapist, de Hennezel cam to her subject - ageing- largely through her own resentment at feeling washed up at 60.. She praises the centenarians of Okinawa (from where she takes the title) for their apparent vitality, but feels the western world ignores, belittles and forgets its old, to everyone's detriment.' --Psychologies

'Timely and admirable... her essential idea - that old age should be a stage of life as full of potential as any other - will appeal to oldies who have no intention of just fading away.' --Mail on Sunday

'Marie de Hennezel, now 64, has become a national treasure after writing a bestseller on how to age gracefully. Her advice in The Warmth of the Heart Prevents your Body from Rusting doesn't involve Botox or facelifts, but embracing your achievement and your relationships and having an active sex life...' --Times 2 Magazine

'Oh, for a pill to end it all, I thought, as the minutes ticked by in the 'dark nightof the soul'. But instead of a pill, I can turn to Marie de Hennezel's entirely uplifting book on how to approach old age - a massive bestseller in her native France... Essential reading. But anyone in their 30s and 40s would find de Hennezel's book as inspirational as I do.. The concept of 'working at growing old' does - paradoxically - offer every one of us a lifeline.' --Bel Mooney, Mail on Friday

'A beautifully written meditation on ageing. Author Marie de Hennezel argues that looking positively at ageing helps us make the most of a very previous time.' --Yours magazine

'This is a truly inspiring book by the French psychologist... Her latest is a call to arms for the "baby boomers" generation to embrace their impending old age, rather than fearing it. De Hennezel tackles these fears by taking a highly-intelligent look at all aspects of ageing. Using a mixture of psychological theory, philosophy, scientific research and personal anecdotes, she gently explains that the end of the end of our lives need not be as useless and terrifying as we anticipate... If you plan on living to a ripe old age, this really is worth a read.' --Press Association