Lissa Rankin > Quotes

“When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

“Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

“With all those negative emotions filling her mind and all those stress hormones coursing through her body, no vegetable, supplement, exercise program, or drug was going to be strong enough to counteract the harmful health effects of chronic stress responses on her body.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“Studies show that most emotions last no longer than 90 seconds unless we attach stories to them. You have a feeling of being lonely—and this will pass through you quickly unless you make up a story about how you’re lonely because you’re unlovable and worthless and nobody will ever love you and you’re going to be alone forever. When you attach to the story, you suffer needlessly and the suffering can linger for years. But you don’t have to choose to suffer this way. Your soul can find peace, comfort, and stillness even in the most difficult times if you’re able to view your negative emotions from this witness position.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“It's easy to get caught up in how our figures look when we stand naked in front of the mirror. But we must remember that we are more than how we look. We are not boobs who happen to have hearts, minds, and souls; rather, we are souls that just happen to have mounds of flesh protruding from our chests.”
― Lissa Rankin

“Courage is not about being fearless; it’s about letting fear transform you so you come into right relationship with uncertainty, make peace with impermanence, and wake up to who you really are.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“When you’re happy, relaxed, and free of stress, the body can accomplish amazing, even miraculous, feats of self-repair.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“what price are you paying when you systematically betray your truth, day after day after day?”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“you can’t ever be broken. You are a hero, and even though you might fall to your knees on a bathroom floor under the pressure of it all, you will rise, like a phoenix from the ashes, and you will stay true to the integrity of your calling.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose

“Everything you need already lies within you right in this moment.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“Diagnostic Exercise #1: What Does Your Body Need in Order to Heal?”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“In order to optimize health, the body needs to be in relaxation response the majority of the time so the body’s natural disease-fighting mechanisms can operate properly.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“Whether you fear uncertainty and let it trigger stress responses or embrace uncertainty and let it elicit relaxation responses is your choice. Personally, I’ve come to recognize the beauty in uncertainty. While one face of uncertainty is the vast, scary unknown, the flip side of uncertainty is infinite possibility.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“I predicted that, in order to live a vital life, prevent disease, or optimize the chance for disease remission, you would need: Healthy relationships, including a strong network of family, friends, loved ones, and colleagues A healthy, meaningful way to spend your days, whether you work outside the home or in it A healthy, fully expressed creative life that allows your soul to sing its song A healthy spiritual life, including a sense of connection to the sacred in life A healthy sexual life that allows you the freedom to express your erotic self and explore fantasies A healthy financial life, free of undue financial stress, which ensures that the essential needs of your body are met A healthy environment, free of toxins, natural-disaster hazards, radiation, and other unhealthy factors that threaten the health of the body A healthy mental and emotional life, characterized by optimism and happiness and free of fear, anxiety, depression, and other mental-health ailments A healthy lifestyle that supports the physical health of the body, such as good nutrition, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and avoidance of unhealthy addictions”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“and found four essential components that could reliably elicit the relaxation response: 1) a quiet environment; 2) a mental device, such as a repeated phrase, word, sound, or prayer; 3) a passive, nonjudgmental attitude; and 4) a comfortable position.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“By letting fear illuminate what’s in need of healing, not just in you, but in your family, you have the potential to heal not only yourself; you can break the chain of generational fear and heal your entire bloodline.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“Gratitude keeps you optimistic, and as we’ve seen, evidence shows that optimism improves your health. When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful. As long as you keep your gratitude vessel full, you’ll avoid the unhealthy plunge into dark places.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“If we’re willing to simply be curious, our true nature starts to reveal itself.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“The key is to remember that how our minds feel as we go about our day—how relaxed, happy, and fulfilled we are—gets translated into the physiology of the body.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“It’s supposed to be a professional secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within.”  — ALBERT SCHWEITZER, M.D.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“Service is another part of the Healing Bubble. Dedicating our lives to serving the world connects us to one another and reminds us to focus on something bigger than ourselves.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“I finally understand part of my role. I am a bridge, a translator.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose

“See yourself disease-free and vital.”
― Lissa Rankin, Mind Over Medicine

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. — THICH NHAT HANH”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“the ones who long to live in alignment with their own Inner Pilot Lights start flocking to you. Your changing vibration attracts your true soul community to you. And as a sort of thank-you for aligning with your true self, the Universe often draws into your life more and more true joy, unconditional love, professional vitality, physical health, and a sense of connection with the Divine. You may lose some, or much, of what makes up your comfort zone. But what you’ll gain when you commit to this journey is priceless. The prize for your commitment is FREEDOM.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“The body is designed to repair itself when it gets sick, and we have clear evidence that those who nurture their bodies, minds, and spirits while staying hopeful and believing in their ability to get well are more likely to be cured. It’s important to your body that we all remain optimistic and that your mind and body stay as relaxed as possible, because only in this state of relaxation can your body fight off the cancer”
― Lissa Rankin, M.D.

“Many of the gifts life has to teach us live not in the realm of the certain, but in the uncertain.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

“people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Knowing how to discern the difference is a skill worth acquiring.”
― Lissa Rankin, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul