Martha Beck Quotes - Page 3

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• Pain is like a life coach in your body. It’s what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot of attention to what made me hurt and what didn’t. It turned out my body was trying to steer me away from a life that was absolutely wrong for me and into a life that was absolutely wonderful.

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  Hurt, Pain, Trying

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• Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

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  Self Esteem, Stress, Suffering

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• Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

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  Thinking

  Martha Beck (2011). “Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

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  Passion, Dangerous World, Choices

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• The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Frustration

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• Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

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  Change, Thinking, Self

  "Ever Wonder Why Butterflies Don’t Chill With Caterpillars?" by Dr. Samineh I. Shaheem, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2015.

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• If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
  is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

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  Growing Up, Faces, Bittersweet

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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• If you're miserable, make a choice.
  If you're still miserable, you can choose again.

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  Choices, Miserable, Stills

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• Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

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  Eye, Oxygen, Feelings

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• I’ll tell you what it’s time to do right now. It’s time to set your schedule in order so that you don’t look back on the day of your death and wonder why you never really lived. It’s time to ignore the opinions of those who think your life should be all about their cause, their rules, their agenda, and not your soul’s desire. It’s time to stop flagellating and start dancing.

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  Thinking, Order, Dancing

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• You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

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  Wells

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.158, Harmony

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• Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Feelings

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• Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve
  the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being
  your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition-
  will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it
  may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is
  what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

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  Hero, Self, Hands

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• Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.

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  Fighting, Alternatives, Fearful

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• The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way
  forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable.
  You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.

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  Stars, Destiny, Thinking

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.18, Rodale

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• Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.

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  Voice, Giving, Worry

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• Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

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  Powerful, Heart, Stories

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• When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.

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  Creative, Bags, Lizards

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• Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

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  Suffering, Tests, Causes

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.210, Rodale

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• A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

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  Heart, Path, May

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• The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.

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  Memories, Past, Events

  "Regret Nothing: Martha Beck on Saying 'Sorry'" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?

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  Regret, Ironic, Connections

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• Every day brings new choices.

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  New Day, Choices

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• My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Nuts

  "Secret to finding unexpected miracles" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

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  Needs, Alternatives, Habit

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