If you're miserable, make a choice. Martha Beck More Quotes by Martha Beck More Quotes From Martha Beck Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along. Martha Beck sadnessinspirationallife 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. Martha Beck frustrationemotionalthinking 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. Martha Beck oxygeneyefeelings 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. Martha Beck powerfulstoriesheart My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! Martha Beck ridiculousopinionpeople No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. Martha Beck strong-womenpaininspiring If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet Martha Beck bittersweetgrowing-upfaces 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. Martha Beck dancingorderthinking Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas you may think are unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith. Martha Beck environmentmaythinking The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before Martha Beck destinybrainheart Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy. Martha Beck friendsstarsessence Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. Martha Beck formartmoving Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make. Martha Beck being-the-bestdecision Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves. Martha Beck psychicschoicesgiving Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise. Martha Beck lonelyhopebelieve 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. Martha Beck lizardsbagscreative I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way. Martha Beck optimisticopportunityattitude Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there. Martha Beck attackingmomentspurpose Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. Martha Beck blindsaidlove Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings. Martha Beck acceptancegivingmean
