self-healing

It__ important to cultivate friendships. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, as a human you are a social being. For the sake of your mental and emotional health, it__ important to be honest about and honor your need for meaningful connections.

You raise the level of universal well-being by choosing to focus with gratitude on your blessings.

Every moment of this experience we call a physical life is determined by the choices you make in your thoughts, intentions, and actions. Thus, when you choose to experience a thought, image, or activity from a place of loving, joyful, and compassionate intentions for yourself and others, you have the power to weave a lovely fabric that heals your mind, body, and soul. When you choose differently, the fabric you weave may contribute to an experience of suffering and pain in the form of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual anguish. The choice is always yours.

In order to create a balanced life that excites you and that allows enough time for healthy habits to flourish, you must love yourself. Even then, it probably won__ be realistic to make one big, drastic sweeping change__specially since overcoming cancer will necessarily be occupying much of your energy. That__ fine; baby steps are a lot better than nothing. As long as you__e working toward a better life you__e on the right path.

The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution__nother reason for _ling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!

Life should not be an endurance event. No prestigious job, well-appointed house, or luxury vacation is worth your emotional, mental and, yes, physical health. In fact, the abrupt loss of all of these things through a cancer diagnosis can be the wake-up call that forces you to identify and begin correcting the things that aren__ working in your life.

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.

Control is an illusion that you must give up.

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.

Find your bones. Believe in what you are.

If you take society__ definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.

In my experience, stress is the cause of all injury and pain.

If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.

Health, peace of mind, peak performance, and success in any area of life all depend upon doing the right thing at the right time, in harmony with the cycles of the Four Seasons.

I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.