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    Politics: Palliative Care for a Curable Disease?

    by Olga Sheean Oct 13, 2020 5 minutes
    Politics: Palliative Care For A Curable Disease? By Olga Sheean. Photograph of a tall, pillared, government building by Anna Sullivan.
    Photograph by Anna Sullivan

    A provocative dive into the body politic in search of meaningful change and results, requiring the active participation of us all

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    How many politicians do you know who are actively committed to their own personal growth? How many do yoga, meditate or invest in healthy behavioural change? How many have resolved their own dysfunction, limiting beliefs, insecurities, unmet needs, poor boundaries and personal conflicts? Precious few, would probably be the answer. Yet politicians are tasked with resolving the crises that result from all of those issues… without addressing a single one of them.

    They grapple with the symptoms of our collective dysfunction — not the root cause — which is why they so seldom fix things.

    It’s not that there are no good politicians left or that none of them wish to truly change things for the better. The problem is the negative programming that has conditioned us to think and act in certain limiting,

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