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“Learn to read symptoms not only as problems to be overcome but as messages to be heeded.”

Healing Health Mind Body Connection

Book:When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Source: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

“Disease itself is both a culmination of what came before and a pointer to how things might unfold in the future. Our emotional dynamics, including our relationship to ourselves can be among the powerful determinants of that future.”

Health Disease Emotions

Book:The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Source: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“A major contributor to the genesis of many diseases... is an overload of stress induced by unconscious beliefs. If we would heal, it is essential to begin the painfully incremental task of reversing the biology of belief we adopted very early in life. Whatever external treatment is administered, the healing agent lies within. The internal milieu must be changed. To find health, and to know it fully, necessitates a quest, a journey to the center of our own biology of belief. That means rethinking and recognizing—re-cognizing: literally, to “know again”—our lives.”

Healing Health Mind Body Connection

Book:When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Source: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

“Since the immune confusion that leads to disease reflects a failure to distinguish self from non-self, healing has to involve establishing or reclaiming the boundaries of an autonomous self.”

Healing Health Mind Body Connection

Book:When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Source: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

“While it is true that genuine joy and satisfaction enhance physical well-being, “positive” states of mind generated to tune out psychic discomfort lower resistance to illness.”

Healing Health Mind Body Connection

Book:When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Source: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress