Quotes About Healing

It wasn't good for the soul, she reminded herself, to dwell in anger. Too oft it only hurt the bearer, because the receiver was scarce aware, or didn't care anyway.

Zoe Rutherford wasn't sure what she was expecting when she returned to Sullivan's Island. The house on Sullivan's hadn't represented home to her in decades. It was the place where she endured her father's cruelty. It was the place where her mother

Essentially, blood left the body in a number of ways. It

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

go of these old familiar ways of being. Before we can turn to a more rational view, we need to empathize with our emotional needs—before we can change, we need to accept and be loving to ourselves.

apply an antidote, a positive alternative to the mental habit of the afflictive emotion.

compassion is a great tranquilizer.

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Try not to get locked into your conceptual mind—it interferes with what's happening naturally. Just let go of the schema thoughts with a mindful presence. Just stay connected to awareness and try to be mindful whenever the schema appears. Try not to be concerned about what needs to happen; healing happens by itself, if you let it, with the soothing effect of awareness.

the more turbulent the emotions expressed on paper, the greater the improvement in their immune function.

Alchemy is accepting everything in the pot without trying to reject or correct it—seeing that even the negative is part of the learning and healing.

Nurturing others can be very healing and nurturing for you, too—if you're not feeling deprived.

Understanding, too, can be a form of forgiveness.

When therapy was successful, two kinds of changes showed up in person after person: the schemas' grip on their lives loosened, and the script changed for the better its typical outcome.

Feelings are held, but not held on to.

an example of how relationships later in life can be reparative for the emotional wounds of a schema like abandonment

one focus for healing is to challenge your fears and, to the extent that they have held you back, gain more freedom in your activities.

means to penetrate dense emotions. This meditative awareness, I've found, can bring us a remarkably subtle understanding of our emotional patterns and so help us find ways to unravel deep fixations and destructive habits.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.