Quotes About Healing

Por mediación de diversas técnicas terapéuticas, llegué a estar muy al tanto de mis propias neurosis, pero eso no necesariamente las exorcizaba.

Pedir perdón y perdonar. Poner esa situación en las manos de Dios y saber que Él está ahí.

Forgiveness sets me free of pain.

To the extent that I withdraw my attachment to what you did, I will no longer be affected by what you did. I have decided to put my faith elsewhere. That is the miracle of forgiveness.

We can imagine a world at peace, a planet healed, and all sentient beings happy.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to becdoesn't stand a chance.

Dios de amor, Pongo este problema sobre tu altar Sírvete interpretar para mí esta situación. Que yo vea sólo el amor en los demás y en mí. Muéstrame lo que debo ver, Guíame a lo que debo hacer. Ayúdame a perdonar. Elévame por encima del dolor que hay en mi mente. Gracias, Dios. Amén.

the miraculous application of love as a balm on every wound.

Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.

Central to the holistic healing of your weight issue is that you develop a new skill set with which to deal with unpleasant emotions. An emotion swept under the rug is not an emotion that goes away; it's simply an emotion that is put somewhere other than where it should be put. It becomes inert rather than dynamic energy, stored within you rather than being released.

I've learned that health and healing come more from love and respect, for oneself and others, than from any specific therapeutic technique. The potential for self-healing and healing from within, both for individuals and communities, is a resource too often overlooked. (xiii)

Marie refuses to describe herself as cured. She feels such a label ignores the process of getting and staying healthy. 'When I was released from Sutton State Hospital, I didn't come out 'well.' It was a process of getting well. In my first years out, I would sometimes have to sit rigidly by the door, stuck in my anxiety, disconnected from my feelings. I still had to learn that I couldn't demand love and attention - I have to learn to exchange feelings.' (xiii)

Marie is a person whose life experiences, though different from most, have never robbed her of her humanity. At the very depth of her psychosis, she could touch her own wish for sanity even though this touch required every bit of her will to live. From a curled-up position of catatonic silence on her hospital bed, she could still see herself: 'I looked at myself and said, 'No more. I can't go on this way anymore...if I ever want to get out of here, if I ever want to get better (xiii)

She treated her patients with medicine and she treated them with prayer and sacrifice and ritual, because for her there could be no clear separation of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual.

spoken confession releases us into forgiveness. Speaking enacts the attitude of repentance that is the precondition of healing and restoration. Like the naming of God's attributes and promises in praise, the particularity and specificity of what is named accounts for much of the psychological efficacy of confession.

There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it's out of your system and in their hands. I always think it's therapeutic.

Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar

Loss is the wisdom behind song.

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding.

I have always liked the phrase 'nursing a grudge' because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding.