Quotes about Feelings from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "For example, if one feels unloved early on, marijuana will unlock those feelings. They rise, but not directly; rather, they are filtered. The feeling "Not only am I not loved, they even want to hurt me," becomes "The ice cream man is plotting against me. He wants to hurt me." Or, in lesser form, "My friend wasn't very friendly today; maybe he's got something against me." Or, when a friend tries to help, she takes it as a sign that she is weak and helpless.
The permutations are endless, but they filter down to a succinct set of needs and pains."- Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) "It is no more logical to think that ideas can change instincts, a survival system, than to believe a simple change in ideas can alter feelings, yet another survival system. A child who is unloved early in life will have an embedded feeling: "There is something wrong with me." This is a recurrent theme among most of my patients. She doesn't know that she is unloved; having never been hugged and kissed from the start of life, she doesn't know that she is missing something. She doesn't choose to feel or think that way; she is reflecting reality on an unconscious feeling level." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) "That means, implicitly, that they are alienated from themselves, the selves where feelings lie. EMDR reinforces repression. That is not mental health; it is deception in the name of mental health, the left hemisphere turning mental handsprings to convince itself that the right/limbic forces do not exist. If one ignores history, every approach is an illusion. Directed daydreaming or imagining therapy is another approach that relies on words, suggestions, and images. You can imagine you are relaxed, floating on a cloud all day long, and still have anxiety churning down below." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) "It helps suppress the feelings in the amygdala, forcing the left frontal area to develop new ideas not in accord with what is engraved below. Then, like any mind game, a person can give up a behavior, such as smoking, but what is the price to pay for this denial of need? Eliminating smoking doesn't change real need. Many of us don't seem to care; all we want is to stop compulsive behavior. What we don't know is that compulsive, importuning need drives compulsive behavior. Again, the need to smoke is a derivative of a real need. Changing behavior does not change need." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "Other pills, legal and prescribed, are supposed to do nothing more—again, this notion of "only"—than cause changes in "experiences" or "feelings." Indeed, after semisynthetic narcotics, the entire category of "antidepressants"—pills designed only for the purpose of changing feelings— is next in prescription activity in the United States.
"Well, I feel better now," said Fran, putting down her empty coffee mug.
Second, no one makes Vicodin or any of the semisynthetic narcotics in his or her backyard laboratories."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "Oscar winners lived four years longer than the other two groups, with study authors concluding that winning an Oscar may lead to increased feelings of optimism and mastery that influence health throughout the rest of one's life. Of course one might well ask: Did winning an Oscar lead to more optimism and better health, or did feelings of optimism and mastery lead to being a better actor, making these actors more likely to take home an Oscar?"- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "Some 150 symptoms have been ascribed to PMS—most commonly feelings of anxiousness (premenstrual tension was the first name given to this syndrome), irritability, and anger or moods vacillating unpredictably among the three. Some women feel predominantly sad or self-deprecating, others simply fatigued and lethargic. Physical changes include bloating, breast tenderness, food cravings, headache, and gastric upset. No particular assortment of symptoms is diagnostic; it is the regular recurrence of symptoms on a monthly basis, just before the menstrual period, that matters."- Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "The decision to pursue conventional modes of infertility treatment depends on age, the duration and cause of the infertility, the results of the ovarian-reserve assessment/testing, finances, other health issues, emotional stamina, and thoughts and feelings about adoption or surrogate options. Treatment options include intrauterine insemination (IUI) in the natural menstrual cycle, ovulation induction using clomiphene citrate or gonadotropins (with or without IUI), and in vitro fertilization." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Some women enjoy positive changes: enhanced creativity, heightened sexual desire, intellectual clarity, and feelings of happiness and well-being.7 It is difficult to identify cause in a condition that overlaps so broadly with normal physiology, affects so many, and has such a wide array of symptoms. Many theories have been explored and none found completely satisfying. Most likely this is because there is such a complex interaction of factors both physiologic and social." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) |
 "Never had I felt such intense feelings of elation, energy, and utter freedom. I had done it! I had seen my hands literally fly up to face level in my dreams as if propelled by some magical force and I realized, "This is a dream!" At the age of sixteen, I had become conscious in the dream state. And suddenly, like Dorothy in Oz, I was not in Kansas any more.
Well, actually, I was in Kansas for another year, until I left for college.
The Paradox of the Senses
My first lucid dream felt like a monumental achievement. I had actually become aware in a dream."- Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.) |
 "The company then turned to another condition, called social anxiety disorder, an extreme form of shyness that causes intense feelings of distress in social situations.
The only problem for SmithKline was that social anxiety disorder was a puny market, especially compared with depression. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, social anxiety is "extremely rare," afflicting between 1 to 2 percent of the population at most."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "Jan explained her feelings to David. "We've paid the money," she told him. "And I don't want to waste an opportunity we've been looking forward to all year because of stomach problems." Beneath her words David heard Jan's characteristic determination not to be a "wimp."
By the time the bike tour began later that afternoon, Jan wasn't so game, and she stayed behind at the hotel." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "They have dark thoughts, guilt, sad feelings, grief, regrets. Such negative thoughts are characteristic of depression. You can't talk the depressed individual out of them or try to convince them otherwise, but you can distract them. Physical activity is one distraction. Doing things for other people is another. So getting the person involved in someone else's problems can be a very effective way of dealing with depression."
Dr. Goldwag insists on the importance of those changes which can be made by the patient himself or herself. "- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "To get away from the chronic feeling of emptiness that frequently occurs with depression, people start to drink, which takes away the feelings and gives them the sense of being in a never-never land. The same is true of many drugs. People take drugs to get a euphoria they wouldn't have achieved on their own or that they may have had but couldn't sustain. Once you get used to that, the quick and easy route is just to stick a needle in your arm or some form of narcotic up your nose or drink it or ingest it. None of this helps us to resolve the underlying conflict." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Some people use the term "depression" when they are struck by feelings of mild sadness, the kind that affects nearly everyone from time to time, often for no obvious reason. Certain times of the year are associated with mood lows, particularly at the beginning and end of winter, for example. Commonly, when someone close to us moves away or dies, or if we lose a job or have some other major disappointment, there's apt to be an even stronger mood reaction. There will be some sadness, perhaps some grief. Usually such periods of sadness or grief are of a limited duration." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
| "Counseling includes helping patients to deal with fears, shame, guilt, and feelings of social isolation as well as developing strategies for communicating with present and future sexual partners.
Women who are pregnant need to inform their practitioner of their history of herpes. Any outbreaks during the pregnancy should be recorded and reported so that appropriate testing, treatment, and management can be done during the pregnancy and delivery." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) |
| "As lucid dreamers, we experience this broader meaning of maya directly—the forming and creating of an experienced reality from our feelings, thoughts, and ideas. The Sanskrit expert and scholar Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty points out, "Thus maya first meant making something that was not there before. ... [M]aya can often best be translated as 'transformation.'"2 She goes on to suggest, "To say that the universe is an illusion (maya) is not to say that it is unreal; it is to say, instead, that it is not what it seems to be, that it is something constantly being made." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.) |
 "Your best information will be gathered from school visits and conversations with teachers
199 and school administrators about their feelings regarding learning differences. You don't need to present the hardest aspects of your child's behaviors. However, you do need to get an idea of how teachers and administrators feel about the uniqueness in each child.
I've spoken to hundreds of parents who visited dozens of schools and had dozens of conversations with teachers and administrators and still agonized over the decision of where to send their child. The decision is not irrevocable."- Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) |
| "As I took in the dream surroundings, my feelings of joy rose to such levels that the lucid dream would begin to feel unstable and then come to an end. I would awaken, full of joy but mystified by the sudden collapse of the lucid dream.
This brought me to one of my first lessons of lucid dreaming:
To maintain the lucid dream state, you must modulate your emotions.
Too much emotional energy causes the lucid dream to collapse. Years later, I learned that virtually all lucid dreamers realize this same lesson and as a result learn to temper their emotions." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.) "So now strip away all your emotions, all your feelings, all your likes and dislikes; remove them all. Now strip away all your relationships, past, present, and future; strip them away. Now all of your ideas, your conceptions, your beliefs, let them go; strip them away and cast them off. Now your memories and history must be stripped free, too. Finally, strip away any lingering residue of ideation of self." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.) |
 "Most likely, Julie's complaints fall into "that considerable gray area between feelings and behaviors that constitute a disorder and those of a similar nature that are not severe or specific enough to merit a diagnosis," as Psychiatric News, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association, put it. "A few examples: shyness vs. social phobic disorder, a gloomy disposition vs. dysthymic disorder, dissatisfaction with one's appearance or sexual performance vs. body dysmorphic or hypoactive sexual desire disorder, getting upset when things go wrong vs. adjustment disorder."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Stephen Pinker, again: "We are still clueless about how the brain represents the content of our thoughts and feelings. Yes, we may know where jealousy happens—or visual images or spoken words—but 'where' is not the same as 'how.' " Scientific American wrote: "Neuro-science . . . has succeeded in unraveling critical chemical and electrical pathways involved in memory, movement and emotion." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
| "The homework and lectures opened my insights into my feelings of guilt and dissatisfaction. My home today is uncluttered, peaceful, and stress-free. Best of all, my family follows the protocol.
ANDREA
I was trapped inside the typical American diet with its false sense of security. I weighed 300 pounds and was not diagnosed with illness.
My back ached, veins in my legs hurt, I felt ill after ingesting most foods?especially dairy—and yearned to wear normal-sized clothing.
I joined a support group as size 24 to 26." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "They also claimed to have shared an extrasensory communication, where they knew each other's thoughts and feelings.0
It got so that Braud's white crows were beginning to take over, crowding out his academic work. Braud's own belief system had moved in small deliberate steps from his original ideas, which had embraced the simple cause-and-effect equations of brain chemistry, to more complex ideas about consciousness."- Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Grad then hypothesized that the reverse might also happen - negative feelings might have a negative effect on the growth of plants. In a follow-up study Grad had several psychiatric patients hold containers of ordinary water which were to be used again to sprout seeds. One patient, a man being treated for psychotic depression, was noticeably more depressed than the others. Later, when Grad tried to sprout seeds using water of the patients, the water that had been held by the depressed man suppressed growth." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "There'd even been some work showing that positive or negative thoughts and feelings could somehow be transmitted to other living things. In the 1960s, biologist Dr Bernard Grad of McGill University in Montreal, one of the earliest pioneers in the field, was interested in determining whether psychic healers actually transmit energy to patients. Rather than using live human patients, Grad had used plants which he'd planned to make 'ill' by soaking their seeds in salty water, which retards growth." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "In the highest state, the meditator experiences feelings of a type of omniscient knowing - a sense of seeing everywhere at once. The subject enters a state of unity with the single object being focused upon. He or she also experiences the ability to achieve gross psychokinetic effects such as levitation and moving objects at a distance.¦« In nearly every instance, the recipient had eliminated the sensory bombardment of the everyday and tapped into a deep well of alert receptivity." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) |
 "They have better and stronger systems of support than men, they're much more engaged with and helpful to each other, more willing and able to express feelings, including grief and anger, and other aspects of intimacy." lesson nine strategies
Try these tips to build up the inner circle of your Blue Zone. Identify your inner circle.
Know the people who reinforce the right habits, people who understand or live by Blue Zone secrets. Go through your address book or your contact list of friends."- Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Their purpose-imbued lives gives them clear roles of responsibility and feelings of being needed well into their 100s. Rely on a plant-based diet. Older Okinawans have eaten a plant-based diet most of their lives. Their meals of stir-fried vegetables, sweet potatoes, and tofu are high in nutrients and low in calories. Goya, with its antioxidants and compounds that lower blood sugar, is of particular interest. While centenarian Okinawans do eat some pork, it is traditionally reserved only for infrequent ceremonial occasions and taken only in small amounts. Get gardening." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
| "Of course one might well ask: Did winning an Oscar lead to more optimism and better health, or did feelings of optimism and mastery lead to being a better actor, making these actors more likely to take home an Oscar?)
Whether one uses prayer, meditation, medication, therapy, greater attention to sleep, or exercise to lower stress levels and "unplug" from the strains of modern life, one thing is clear: doing so can have a significant effect on our immune systems." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
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