I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
BERNIE SIEGELSure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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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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Do things to make your day precious.
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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.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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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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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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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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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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The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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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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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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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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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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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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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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