Quotes About Healing

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.

By the light of your stars, heal me.

Gratitude is a harbinger of healing, the first robin of spring.

Porque lo que las palabras lastiman, a veces solo el silencio arregla.

El llanto es un perro inmenso, que va mordiendo por dentro mientras no sale, y deja vacíos detrás, abismos de llenado incierto.

Porque lo que las palabras lastiman, a veces sólo el silencio arregla.

Me sorprendió el poco esfuerzo que me costaba evocar esas palabras dichas, esas cosas vistas o escuchadas, esos dolores sufridos y ya superados; me sorprendió también con qué presteza y dedicación nos entregamos al dañino ejercicio de la memoria, que a fin de cuentas nada trae de bueno y sólo sirve para entorpecer nuestro normal funcionamiento.

Convierten al mundo en hospital, quieren que no esperemos nada, ni siquiera lo que no va a llegar y por la curva del cielo pasa tu rostro que llora.

Comprendo la desesperanza. El sentimiento de culpa. El saber que el mundo está roto y no puede arreglarse.

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

Communication with other realms, including those of the spirits and the deceased • Soul retrieval and other forms of healing • Location of lost or stolen items, in particular buried treasure

And sometimes, even though Dad said Dr. Snow was the best psychologist in the city and a very famous man, Jess thought there were things he didn't know either. "Time heals all wounds," he'd said to them once, his voice so soft and thoughtful he could have been talking to himself. It had seemed a cruel thing to say, though Jess knew he hadn't meant to be unkind. Vida had been really angry with him. "No, it doesn't!" she shouted. "You're wrong! It doesn't!

True healing is not physical — it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.

Maybe you gotta feel lousy sometime, in order to feel better. A little advice, kiddo, about feeling. Don't think too much about it. And don't expect it always to tickle.

Now, well beyond my teens, I feel that there is no such thing as wasted love. Any love that we experience holds great power - the power to transform both us and those we love. In fact, without love we cannot be transformed.

Trauma robs the victim of a sense of power and control; the guiding principle of recovery is to restore power and control. The first task of recovery is to establish the survivor's safety. This task takes precedence over all others, for no therapeutic workman possibly succeed if safety has not been adequately secured…

Repetition is the mute language of the abused child.

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

Denying the reality of my experience—that was the most harmful. Not being able to trust anyone was the most serious effect. . . . I know I acted in ways that were despicable. But I wasn't crazy. Some people go around acting like that because they feel hopeless. Finally I found a few people along the way who have been able to feel OK about me even though I had severe problems. Good therapists were those who really validated my experience.

For survivors of prolonged, repeated trauma, it is not practical to approach each memory as a separate entity. There are simply too many incidents, and often similar memories have blurred together. Usually, however, a few distinct and particularly meaningful incidents stand out. Reconstruction of the trauma narrative is often based heavily upon these paradigmatic incidents, with the understanding that one episode stands for many.

helplessness constitutes the essential insult of trauma, and that restitution requires the restoration of a sense of efficacy and power.

The fundamental stages of recovery are establishing safety, reconstructing the trauma story, and restoring the connection between survivors and their community