Deborah Sandella Quotes

Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.

Precious few of us stop to think about what we're feeling.

When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone.

Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.

When your concern is about future safety, anxiety arises.

Allowing yourself to become empathic to the point of being traumatized by another's experience is unnecessary and ineffective.

Imagination is magical and practical at the same time.

Looking through a metaphoric lens, we are the riverbank, and the water flowing through us is emotion.

We hold on to what we are trying to avoid.

Feelings are spontaneous and organic like breath. Allow them to leave and you'll know the same relief as when you exhale.

Both thinking over feeling provide vital feedback to support your survival and help you flourish.

As adults, our central motivators continue to be maintaining comfort and avoiding discomfort.

Loosening sticky emotion is like unsticking glue - find the stuck spot and gently give it attention so it can come apart.

The language of feelings is not linear, logical, and verbal like the language of thinking.

Welcome the hidden messages in pain.

Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.

We are created with life's inherent sense of order and urge to thrive.

When we pay attention and listen instead of denying, suppressing, fearing, or disliking our spontaneous feelings, we gain great access to our natural intuition.

The gift of beauty can be found in ugly feelings.

Anger and hurt are two sides of the same coin.

Sometimes emotion is gentle, like rain feeding the river to nourish life, but sometimes it explodes like a rainstorm whose floodwaters wipe out bridges and homes.

Giving a voice to your feelings is a necessary personal freedom.

The essential function of feelings is to provide feedback and pass through us organically like water flows in a river.

No matter how you look at it, you are both humanity and presence.

Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.

When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit.

When we see ourselves through another's eyes, we gain valuable insight and direction.

As we appreciate our feelings, we naturally build on Descartes' 'I think, therefore I am,' to realize 'I feel, therefore I am more than I think.

My feelings are intelligent, directive, and revealing
From the inside out they rise, flow, reveal
Uncovering, releasing, freeing
Reshaping my experience
Lifting my mood

The underbelly of envy and jealousy is an unconscious holding back of yourself.

The head is in charge of thinking; the heart is in charge of feeling; and the spirit realizes the creative, infinitely thriving power of life while imagination acts as translator and synthesizer.

Unprocessed intense emotion goes underground and creates a subconscious block that can be released as soon as the original event is integrated in the mind, heart, and body.

Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring.

The first and immediate thing to do when you find yourself stuck in terror is to breathe!

What you feel is what you get, regardless of what you think!

We avoid thinking about how we feel, while at the same time, we can't stop thinking about how we feel.