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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

Bernie Siegel

People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Doctors Expected People Somebody
Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can’t say to creation and energy, “I’ll do it later, not now.” Later doesn’t exist. Creation doesn’t know anything but now.
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Doing Energy Need Universe
An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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Awareness Meaningful Wake Up
When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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Blessed Function Grateful Gratitude Leave
Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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Deny Doctors Mystic
Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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Believe Mind Possibility
Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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Blessing Grateful Opportunity
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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Important Searching Wisdom World
One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Attitude Healing Important
Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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Doing Love Sooner Thinking You
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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Cancer Dream Night People Present Well
At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.
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Around Day Decide End Everybody Happy Later Two Year
At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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Depressed Feeling Loved Thinking Worries
Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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Jogging Morning Winter
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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Desire Doctors Our Words

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

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