Quotes About Self-care

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

to cultivate compassion for others, first we begin with ourselves.

Enjoy the pleasures of this world, but don't neglect your inner well-being.

Despite the fact that our failed developmental history was our parents' "fault," each of us has the ultimate responsibility for our own life. Those of us who have been victimized by indifference, neglect, or abuse are responsible for the rest of our lives. We must work to understand our histories, to separate as best as we can from those who have hurt us, and to pursue gratifying relationships in the future.

Don't complain, and don't explain." That is, don't complain about your emotionally impoverished history to your parents, because they will never validate your perspective of your childhood. Second, don't explain your quiet withdrawal from the family scene. Simply slip away as gracefully as possible and concentrate your efforts at developing relationships with people who support and embrace you.

Healthy individuals are not interested in rescuing desperate peers, nor do they feel guilty about leaving or avoiding excessively demanding acquaintances.

tomar y cuáles medicamentos dejar de consumir; reducir el estrés diario e incluso la exposición a sustancias químicas en el medio ambiente; fortalecer tus relaciones humanas y mejorar tu cuidado personal;

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

By participating in certain programs, such as that of the Commonweal Center in California (which we'll discuss later), patients try to take charge of their cancer, to learn to live in greater harmony with their bodies and their past, to seek peace of mind through yoga and meditation, and to choose foods that fight cancer while avoiding those that promote its development.

But that is precisely the point: If patients are better informed about their disease, if they look after body and mind, and if they are given what they need to improve their health, then they can mobilize the body's vital functions to fight cancer. They live better, and for longer.

Recovery [from codependency] may not always be comfortable at first for the other people in one's life. But it is always worth it because, actually, nobody ever respects a 'doormat'.

Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.

It was a long, long time since anyone had hugged him, so he hugged himself.

We might at first label the body's simple need to focus inward depression. But as we practice going inward, we come to realize that much of it is not depression in the least; it is a cry for something else, often the physical body's simple need for rest, for contemplation, and for a kind of forgotten courage, one difficult to hear, demanding not a raise, but another life.

My shame circuits burned out from overuse years ago.

I've developed a pretty good survival system involving nothing more than mental alertness exercises, positive thinking and amphetamines.

Meditation—all by itself—may offer more to the health of a modern American than all the pharmaceutical remedies put together."36

As soon as you wake up in the morning, place your hand over your heart and feel love.

By choosing these practices, we use our minds deliberately in order to induce transcendent states. Such states become not an inadvertent happy accident, but a lifestyle upgrade that we have deliberately installed.

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Healthy is not something that you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.

Someone once asked Swami Satchidananda, a spiritual teacher, "What are you, a Hindu?" "No," he replied, "I'm an Undo. I'm trying to teach people how they can undo the patterns that cause damage to their minds and bodies so they can begin to heal.

You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn't healthy to congest oneself like that.

there were days I wrote get out of bed in my planner just to be able to feel like I'd accomplished something.