I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
BERNIE SIEGELThe #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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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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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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