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The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

Mariel Hemingway

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Mariel Hemingway
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 22
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Mill Valley
California
Mariel Hadley Hemingway
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I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.
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I really felt that I had to stay level, I had to control, I had to know what I was eating, I had to know what I was doing, I had to work out. All that stuff is very powerful and it really helps, but now I don't do it out of survival. At first, I was just trying to survive. I assumed at some point I'd be screwed otherwise.
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Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.
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What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.
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When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short there's no history to fall back on.
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We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.
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I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast.
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Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.
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Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.
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A lot of exercise is mindless you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
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Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.
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How you live your life can affect your mental state.
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But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
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You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you it will start your day off in a positive way.
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I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
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People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.
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The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.
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