Quotes About Healing

And that's no way to treat folks who are trying to find a little heaven after catching hell all week long.

Everything was broken, meaning everything could somehow be fixed.

I knew that if the subject were to arise, I would once again speak words that would cut my friend, little ceremonial slashes to his soul, not to cause a mortal wound, just to draw blood and to relieve myself of a nameless burden.

Vera said: "Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?" So I told her why. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Men's healing is in women's interest, though for women that healing will mean accepting on some level not only that men are—here is the dreaded word—victims of the patriarchy, too, but (and this will be the hardest part to swallow) that women have been codeterminers in the system, at times as invested and active as men themselves in making and keeping men in their role.

Let me speak as a physician, Lady Blue: the primary cause of your melancholy is that for too long you have lacked contact with the earth, with water, with green and growing plants. You are not the kind of person who can live apart from these things. Like a wild bird in a cage, you will lose the will to live. You have to get outside.

I do know this. It's the things we run from that hurt us the most." –Brad Sturdevant

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

Belief becomes biology.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.

an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

and in one moment, his completely conscious brain turned all his pain off. If only he could learn how to flip that switch for his patients!

Thus he might start working on a part of the body farthest from where the pupil thought the problem was, often on the opposite side. He might begin to gently move a toe, far from a painful upper body part. If he felt a restriction, he would never force it. What he discovered was that the brain would sense this relaxation in the toe, and the person would become immersed in that image of relaxed movement, which would soon generalize, so that that entire side of the body relaxed.

Sharpen Perception and Memory, Increase Speed of Thought, and Heal Learning Problems

Forgiveness Meditation. Settle into meditation. Recall someone whom you know you need to forgive. Just let the person's image or the sense of who they are arise in your mind. Feel the feelings. Observe whatever happens without entanglement. Let the feelings come and go. Don't try to forgive, just be present.