Quotes About Self-care

Love is the miracle cure," she says, "And when you are willing to love yourself more, every area of your life works out better.

Love is the most powerful healing force there is. You can take this love out into the world and silently share it with everyone you meet. Love yourself. Love one another. Love the planet and know that we are all one. And so it is.

You forgive that person and then you release them. Taking a stand and setting healthy boundaries is often the most loving thing you can do—not only for yourself, but for the other person as well.

For us to become whole and healthy, we must balance the body, mind, and spirit. We need to take good care of our bodies. We need to have a positive mental attitude about ourselves and about life. And we need to have a strong spiritual connection. When these three things are balanced, we rejoice in living. No doctor or health practitioner can give us this unless we choose to take part in our healing process.

We mistreat our bodies with food, alcohol, and drugs.

Almost all of our programming, both negative and positive, was accepted by us by the time we were three years old. Our experiences since then are based upon what we accepted and believed about ourselves and about life at that time. The way we were treated when we were very little is usually the way we treat ourselves now. The person you are scolding is a three-year-old child within you.

loving the self begins with never, ever criticizing ourselves for anything.

Be conscious of your eating. It's like paying attention to our thoughts. We also can learn to pay attention to our bodies and the signals we get when we eat in different ways.

I would add to that concept that the very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one YOU NEED TO LET GO OF THE MOST. Forgiveness means giving up, letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior. It's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know HOW to forgive. All we need to do is to be WILLING to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

People who love themselves and their bodies neither abuse themselves nor others.

there is only one thing I ever work on, and that is LOVING THE SELF. I find that when we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works.

Very simply, an affirmation is anything you say or think.

Now visualize your mother as a little girl of four or five, frightened and looking for love and not knowing where to find it. Reach out your arms and hold this little girl and let her know how much you love her, how much you care. Let her know she can rely on you to always be there, no matter what. When she quiets down and begins to feel safe, let her get very small, just the size to fit into your heart. Put her there with your own little child. Let them give each other lots of love.

Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good. Planting

Sometimes people with cancer or other terminal illnesses have such a hard time saying "no" to an authoritative figure in their life, that on an unconscious level they will create a major dis-ease to say "no" for them.

Say to yourself often, "I'm doing the best I can.

When people come to me with a problem, I don't care what it is — poor health, lack of money, unfulfilling relationships, or stifled creativity—there is only one thing I ever work on, and that is LOVING THE SELF.

We scold and criticize ourselves endlessly. We mistreat our bodies with food, alcohol, and drugs. We choose to believe we are unlovable. We are afraid to charge a decent price for our services. We create illnesses and pain in our bodies. We procrastinate about things that would benefit us. We live in chaos and disorder. We create debt and burdens. We attract lovers and mates who belittle us or abuse us.

A lot of people, on the other hand, go around saying, "I'm a victim, woe is me. Please, doctor, fix me.

So I refuse to focus on excess weight or on diets. For diets do not work. The only diet that does work is a mental diet — dieting from negative thoughts. I say to clients, "Let us just put that issue to one side for the time being while we work on a few other things first.

New thought patterns (positive affirmations) can heal and relax your body.

most BLADDER problems come from being "pissed off," usually at a partner. Something

What was done in the past is done, and it is over now. But this is present time, and you now have the opportunity to treat yourself the way you wish to be treated. A frightened child needs comforting, not scolding. Scolding yourself only makes you more frightened, and there is nowhere to turn.

The mental thought patterns that cause the most dis-ease in the body are criticism, anger, resentment, and guilt.