Latest Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes from Interviews

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• I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Spiritual, Prayer, Thinking

• If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Fall, Forgiving, Patterns

• You have to be ready to receive help, whether that be through a book, a therapist or counselor, or a doctor of some kind. That willingness can lead you through a door to the other side, and that's where healing can truly begin.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Book, Healing, Doctors

• We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's not what we're taught; quite the opposite, actually. With all the expectations and the negative stories going on in the world, we have a lot to overcome.

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  Believe, Opposites, Expectations

• If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free.

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  Feelings, Forgiving, Negative

• The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

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  Firsts, Clean, Ownership

• The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because unconsciously it's still a belief system that limits you.

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  Issues, Different, Patterns

• You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Letting Go, Past, Guilt

• Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books.

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  Pain, Book, Self

• I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to resentment, anger, pain, and rage in order to heal your past resentments toward yourself and others, and then deal with them in the moment so you don't carry them for a decade or more.

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  Pain, Believe, Past

• We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Pain, Memories, Opportunity

• I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

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  Thinking, Process, Trauma

• Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

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  Paper, Lists, Release

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you're having.

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  Fun, Stress, Joy

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.

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  Nice, Acceptance, Self

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

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  Morning, Writing, Evening

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.

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  Stress, People, Want

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Hook

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• Putting your well-being first - like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the person next to you - that really benefits all your relationships.

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  Oxygen, Benefits, Next

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• If you're feeling stressed or anxious and you don't know why, ask yourself: What little thing led me here? Recently, I canceled on a friend because I was tired. I went to bed feeling stressed out, and I realized, I feel bad because I canceled.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Tired, Feelings, Stressed

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• Resentment creates stress.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Resentment

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• People carry around resentment for years! And that creates daily stress.

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  Stress, Years, People

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• The second you change the way you look at a situation, your stress levels drop.

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  Stress, Looks, Levels

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.

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  Stress, Energy, Persons

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• If you're stuck in traffic, call a friend or listen to a favorite podcast. If you're waiting in a long line, make friends with a person in line with you. There are lots of ways we can change the vibe.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Long, Waiting, Lines

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com