Sandella Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Deborah Sandella

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

The gift of beauty can be found in ugly feelings. — Deborah Sandella

Feelings naturally arise as passing states of awareness and are not part of us - rather, they give feedback and then expire. — Deborah Sandella

Anger and hurt are two sides of the same coin. — Deborah Sandella

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

What you feel is what you get, regardless of what you think! — Deborah Sandella

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

Giving a voice to your feelings is a necessary personal freedom. — Deborah Sandella

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

Feelings are constantly changing and creating different body experiences even when we are oblivious to them. — Deborah Sandella

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

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. — Deborah Sandella

Imagination is magical and practical at the same time. — Deborah Sandella

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. — Deborah Sandella

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

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

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. — Deborah Sandella

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

To allow uncomfortable feelings is to be fully alive because it opens the emotional faucet that also supplies joy and excitement. — Deborah Sandella

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. — Deborah Sandella

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

The intellectual and constant retelling of a victim story becomes a broken record, deepening the groove of helplessness in the nervous system. — Deborah Sandella

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

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

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

When your concern is about future safety, anxiety arises. — Deborah Sandella

Welcome the hidden messages in pain. — Deborah Sandella

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

Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring. — Deborah Sandella

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

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

Life constantly challenges us; it's not personal, just the natural process of growth and evolution. — Deborah Sandella

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

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

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. — Deborah Sandella

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

Neutral experiences are easily forgotten. — Deborah Sandella

The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain. — Deborah Sandella

Writing allows you the unique and uncensored expression of whatever wants to be spoken. — Deborah Sandella

We hold on to what we are trying to avoid. — Deborah Sandella

Your feelings have a natural shelf life. — Deborah Sandella

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

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

Imagination is the readily available, no-cost communicator that translates emotion into form for the mind to comprehend and use. — Deborah Sandella