The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
BERNIE SIEGELBy relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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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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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
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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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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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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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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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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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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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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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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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