Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
BERNIE SIEGELThe fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
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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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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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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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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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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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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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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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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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Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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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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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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