The Great Pain Deception Quotes

“Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain. — Metanoia.org”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Anxiety should never be viewed as an inherent weakness, but rather an out-of-control strength. It takes tremendous strength to never act out rage; to take that energy, to repress it inward where it becomes anxiety—so as to not harm anyone else.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“As irrational as it may appear, depression has an evolutionary purpose, which is to inhibit aggressive behavior. Depression is a survival mechanism when she cannot fight her way out of, or run from her life—leaving her self-esteem nonexistent. The result of inhibition of expressive behavior is depression
and anxiety.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“If the individual feels never- ending self-imposed pressure to do good, be good, or appear good, she will eventually fall into the long-term effects of fatigue. The long-term effects of this can only
be characterized as chronic fatigue.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“[Highly Sensitive People — HSPs] are often gifted artists or writers, teachers, consultants, counselors—people of great intuitive talents stuck in mundane and externally draining environments.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“We often desire to find vengeance against prior rejections by trying to become independent of others.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher,
animal rights activist (1788-1860)”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“impulses and instincts, id is immutable and everlasting.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Suffering pushes us toward growth until we reach a certain level of awareness and then are suddenly pulled toward our predetermined path— toward our ultimate Self—the Truth.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“We suffer when we feel isolated, unappreciated, alone—unconnected.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Illness is feedback regarding our deepest unmet needs.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Suffering also uncovers the deep desire for spiritual balance because it unveils to the individual that he isn’t happy—not on his own path—out of balance. Worrying, trying too hard, and complaining, do not solve problems. Growth occurs not by solving problems, but by rising above them. Suffering is not the goal in life; it is an integral part of life that gives opportunity for creativity and growth as it insists upon needed change. When we don’t change, we don’t grow—we are stuck in suffering —heading for more suffering.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Every problem, therefore, brings the possibility of a widening of consciousness, but also the necessity of saying goodbye to childlike unconsciousness….
— Carl Jung, The Stages of Life”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Whether it is a huge mistake, or a traumatic experience, deeper understanding often comes through suffering, as ego dissolves into the light of consciousness. Knowledge can be purchased at any corner bookstore, but you can’t buy understanding. Understanding comes through experience, and through relating knowledge to that experience. It is the valleys that make the mountains so towering; suffering that yields to compassion; death that
makes life so precious.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Experience is what we get when things don’t go as planned.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“People who seem to be moving to greater levels of enlightenment and light actually experience darkness in more dramatic ways, and often times more tragic ways than people who live in the safe middle, people who are comfortably nice.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Every life experience and all creativity come from the clash of opposing forces—the collision of the energy of polar opposites. It’s healthy to laugh and it’s healthy to cry—the brightest stars eventually become black holes—the good person without accountability becomes the evil one. Steroids take away skin redness, but if used too long, they redden the skin. The germaphobe cleans her hands to avoid germs, but cleaning too much destroys antibodies, allowing for infection. Lying down for a headache helps, but if you stay down too long it gives you a headache. The desire of total control results in the loss of all control. The greater the love you feel the deeper the pain of loss. If you help your child, she learns; if you do everything for her, she never learns…”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Every life experience and all creativity come from the clash of opposing forces—the collision of the energy of polar opposites. It’s healthy to laugh and it’s healthy to cry—the
brightest stars eventually become black holes—the good person without accountability becomes the evil one. Steroids take away skin redness, but if used too long, they redden the skin. The germaphobe cleans her hands to avoid germs, but cleaning too much destroys antibodies, allowing for infection. Lying down for a headache helps, but if you stay down too long it gives you a headache. The desire of total control results in the loss of all control. The greater the love you feel the deeper the pain of loss. If you help your child, she learns; if you do everything for her, she never learns…”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Full belief, or “positive expectant faith” in the drug or procedure, is the force behind healing.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“But it should be understood always that the drug didn’t make you feel better, it was your initial belief in the drug that did. You did it yourself!”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Healing begins with belief, and that very belief is magnified when the individual takes the drug and just happens to have a good day, that day, or if the prescriber verbally sells it to the needer. They then associate the drug with the new feeling of wellness—immediate conditioning. After all, Pavlov didn’t just ring the bell and the dogs came running. He had to feed them first.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Emmett Miller, MD, has also stated that the hand that gives the pill is often a more powerful force than the pill itself.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Their belief generates and ignites self-healing, since the
mechanisms needed for healing are already within each individual.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Deep Belief in Anything Is the Master Key”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“If you don’t have the tools (understanding or desire) to heal, then you will need medication.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Stress has more deleterious effects on the heart than cholesterol.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“...approximately 90 percent of the physicians who set the
guidelines for other physicians have conflicts of interest or financial ties with the pharmaceutical industry.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“The sympathetic nervous system eases down when we feel secure and safe and can wear our natural faces—relaxed, confident, aware, and healthier.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“It’s easy to feel the sensory effect that others have on you when they enter your proxemic space, as your back, neck, colon, or chest tighten.”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse

“Imagine you are standing in a circle of people. In the center of the circle, there is a source of light. But rather than facing the center and the light, you are standing with your back to the light, facing outward.
When you stand this way, facing away from the light, all you can see is your own shadow. You cannot see the light. You can only look into your shadow. You cannot see the others in the circle with you. From what you can see, you are disconnected and alone in the dark.
Now imagine that you turn around to face the light that is in the center of the circle. When you turn toward the light, you no longer see only darkness. When you turn toward the light, your shadow is behind you. When you turn toward the light, you can now see the other people who are standing with you. You can see that the light is shining on everyone and that you are all connected in its radiance. Making the decision to turn around, to turn away from shadow, to face the light—this is metanoia.
metanoia.org”
― Steven Ray Ozanich, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse