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 SIEGELOne’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn’t think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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