Candace Pert Quotes

“Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.”

“EFT is at the forefront of the new healing movement.”

“EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century.”

“Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together.”

“Emotions are the nexxus between matter and mind, going back and forth between the two and influencing both.”

“I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.”

“I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.”

“Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown.

But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.”

“Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.”

“Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body.

Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.”

“Network Spinal Analysis represents the epitome of body work; it is at the leading of body/mind/spirit integration. This work will transform the planet.”

“One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget.

The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear.

The emotion of love (or something resembling it) and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories.”

“Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace.”

“Simply bringing awareness to the process of breathing initiates the release of peptide molecules from the hindbrain to regulate breathing while unifying all systems.”

“The body isn't there simply to carry the head.”

“The chemicals that are running our body and our brain are the same chemicals that are involved in emotion. And that says to me that we'd better pay more attention to emotions with respect to health.”

“The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.”

“When we are playing games, we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.”

“Your mind is in every cell of your body.”

“I have lectured and written about the important role of perception and awareness in health and longevity — how awareness can actually transform matter, create an entirely new body.”

“My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed – which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion are flowing freely – all systems are united and made whole.

When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.”

“The body is not a mindless machine; the body and mind are one.”

“To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension.

It reminded me of my belief that it was the mission of science to pierce through the layers of everyday reality and penetrate to the truth.”

“When emotions are expressed all systems are united and made whole.

When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.”

“Your body is your subconscious mind and you can’t heal it by talk alone.”