Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life QUOTES

1 " The biology of emotional freedom depends on getting your endorphins flowing and turning off your stress hormones. How you achieve this? Laughter, exercise, meditation and doing anything that makes you loved. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

2 " Energy doesn't lie. Keep sensing it, trusting it, letting it liberate you. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

3 " The most spiritually credible people I know are humble and soft-spoken. They don’t strut around like peacocks, enchanted by how wonderful they are. My heroes are the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Rosa Parks—gentle persuaders to a more noble path, not power-hungry egomaniacs. Don’t get me wrong. I advocate a healthy ego. It’s our conscious sense of self, the “I” of the human equation. However, egotism is having an inflated identity, a strain of negativity that infects spirituality and the liberation it brings. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

4 " The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

5 " Always, emotional freedom involves choosing where you put your attention. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

6 " The launching pad for emotional freedom is always yourself. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

7 " I know how tempting it is to believe that something outside—a great job, meeting Mr. or Ms. Right, winning the lottery— can make you feel okay and mollify envy. For a while these may seem to work, but an outer fix alone, no matter how gratifying, can’t sustain self-esteem. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

8 " Courage not aligned with a higher good isn’t always positive—a burglar can be plenty courageous as he robs you blind. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

9 " Egotism is not a sign of self-esteem. It masks feelings of inferiority, which is why these Mr. Bigs denigrate others and often have unquenchable ambition. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

10 " Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön warns against what she insightfully terms “idiot compassion”—using kindness to avoid conflict when a resounding “no” is required. I completely agree. To preserve our emotional freedom, we must know where to draw the line. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

11 " Our visions of courage are what poet Sarah Teasdale describes as “holy thoughts that star the night.” Meditation on Freedom Awakening Courage In a relaxed, quiet state, focus on a time when you were courageous. Perhaps you spoke up for yourself or took the road less traveled despite what others said. Or you fought injustice or helped someone in need. Maybe you just got yourself out of bed in the morning when you felt down. All acts of courage matter. Try not to judge one as better than another. For a few minutes, bask in the feeling of courage, letting it infuse you. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

12 " Intuition intelligently informs patience. It’ll convey when to have it and if something is worth working on or waiting for. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

13 " Preparation for the test was Herculean, requiring months of intense study. Even though she’d been an impeccably skilled, compassionate doctor, beloved by her patients for four decades, she was possessed by a sense of inadequacy. A thousand people could tell her how incredible she was, but if one person said something derogatory, she’d believe him. It was so much easier for her to be kind to others than to herself—a paradox shared by many of us. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

14 " What is emotional freedom? It means increasing your ability to love by cultivating positive emotions and being able to compassionately witness and transform negative ones, whether they’re yours or another’s. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

15 " To me, egotists seem bloated, flatulent. They watch out for number one, peer down their noses at you, and tend to be jealous or envious. (Still, egotists usually have varying capacities for empathy and love compared to narcissists, who’re typically more incapacitated in these areas.) "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

16 " My spiritual teacher describes a person with a big ego as “a feather pretending to be an arrow.” Intuitively, this rings so true. When I tune in to patients who are egotists, their self-esteem feels frail and wobbly, but it steadies once they discover a sounder sense of worth and connection to Spirit. Forget about how impressive egotists might look on the outside or how others kowtow to them. They are grand pretenders, even to themselves, with underdeveloped hearts. Egotists parade what they’ve got: possessions, social status, or even the “high spiritual plane” they believe they’re residing on compared to us mortals. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

17 " In The Heart’s Code, psychologist Paul Pearsall chronicles arresting accounts of our body’s cellular emotional intelligence. He tells of Claire Sylvia, the famous heart-lung transplant recipient who suddenly began craving new kinds of food—chicken nuggets and beer— as well as experiencing unfamiliar emotions. But why? Stunningly, in dreams, she had conversations with her donor (whose identity had been kept anonymous, standard hospital policy), which allowed her to locate his parents. They confirmed that her new tastes and feelings were those their son had too. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

18 " Pearsall also describes an eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a murdered child. After the transplant, the girl started having nightmares about the man who had killed her donor. Her mother then took her to a therapist. Details she reported in therapy sessions were so precise—time, weapon, the murderer’s clothes, crime scene—that they notified the police. Astonishingly, the girl’s information led police to the murderer. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

19 " Be compassionate with people you know and those you don’t. We are all sacred. We are all achingly beautiful. Intuition allows us to recognize one another’s light. Let’s take our cue from poet Mary Oliver when she writes about “seeing through the heavenly visibles to the heavenly invisibles.” Compassion grants us the sightedness to behold both the surface of things and their deeper emotional dimensions. It enables us to be more giving, thereby consecrating our relationships. It lets us make the earth a better place than when we came. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

20 " Despite fiery disagreements about who or what God is and how to make contact, all these religions agree that patience is the essence of spirituality and thus grants great strength. Judaism says, “A patient man is better than a warrior.” In Buddhism, bodhisattvas train in this practice to become enlightened. Christianity and Islam deem it a sacred virtue. Patience endows you with faith in yourself and your destiny, an illuminated capacity to deal with frustration and disappointments. "

― Judith Orloff , Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life