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Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect–the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.Larry Dossey
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I believe the vital ingredient is love–a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.Larry Dossey
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People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus – what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside.Larry Dossey
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Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.Larry Dossey
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[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.Larry Dossey
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When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensuesLarry Dossey
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Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature—not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.Larry Dossey