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Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts.

Judith Orloff

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Judith Orloff
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 25
Motivational Speaker
Psychiatrist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Illness
Opening
Hearts
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Heart

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Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.
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If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.
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Surrendered people understand that they can’t always change a situation, especially when the door is shut. They don’t try to force it open. Instead, they pay attention to their own behavior, look at the situation at hand, and find a new, different, and creative way to get beyond the obstacles. They are comfortable with uncertainty.
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Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has given up. It's quite the contrary.
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Surrendered people make great lovers. They can be spontaneous and playful. They love to feel and express all of their emotions. They look vibrant, healthy, and energetic.
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Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.
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Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.
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We energetically attract what we haven't worked out in ourselves. When vampires evoke intensely judgmental reactions from us, it could be they are mirroring aspects of our personalities we don't like or completely understand.
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An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to drain. Of all the emotional types, empaths are often the most devestated.
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The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.
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It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.
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Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.
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Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom.
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Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.
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Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.
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Surrender to life today. Don't fight anything. Just enjoy the flow.
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Surrendered people know themselves and are empathetic toward others. They don't measure themselves by how much they are liked, nor do they compete for attention. When they sit quietly in a room, others always seem to come to them. They feel successful apart from their job or net worth.
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The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise there's no better way to make a point.
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Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.
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People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example.
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