It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
Bernie SiegelRead
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
Interpretation
Suppressing emotions leads to self-destruction and inner turmoil.
This quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and expressing one’s feelings. When individuals try to repress their emotions, they create an internal conflict that can lead to a sense of lifelessness, as if they have buried their feelings in a metaphorical graveyard, hindering their emotional well-being and personal growth.
In practice
During a mental health workshop, to illustrate the importance of emotional openness.
It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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