#Elizabeth Kubler Ross

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"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself ... "  - Elizabeth Kubler Ross

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"Vive de tal forma que al mirar atrás no lamentes haber desperdiciado la existencia. Vive de tal forma que no lamentes las cosas que has hecho ni desees haber actuado de otra manera. Vive con sinceridad y plenamente. Vive"

"La Rueda de la vida"

# Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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Thought For the Day: Should You Shield the Canyons From the Windstorms You Would Never See the True Beauty of Their Carvings

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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Quotes I live by: Loa edition

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

~Napoleon Hill

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”

~James Allen

“Create your future from your future, not from your past.”

~ Dr. Joe Dispenza

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The law of consciousness is like a coin: heads, you win; tails, you lose. It is up to you to choose the outcome of your life.”

~Stephen Richards

“You will become as small as your controlling desire, and as great as your dominant aspiration”

~James Allen

“If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence."

~ABRAHAM HICKS

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedom—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

~ Viktor Frankl

"The point of power is always in the present moment."

~Louise Hay

"The only limit to what we can achieve is the power of our own minds."

~ Henry Ford

“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.”

~Dr. Robert Anthony

“Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception, change them and you change your life."

~Wayne Dayer

“Paradoxically, what works against us also works for us. If you can dream it, and believe it, then you can do it!”

~Tony Robbins

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

~Henry ford

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.”

Dale Carnegie

"You are responsible for your life and the power of your consciousness. Nothing can stop you from fulfilling your true potential."

~Deepak Chopra

"Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world." ~Unknown

"The key to success is the power of imagination. Create an image of what you want and make it your focus."

~Tony Robbins

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in; their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”

~ Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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dedicated to lovely @domsaysstuff whom I have endlessly ranted to when working on these web weaves

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler/Keith Ablow/Unknown/Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven/Kiera Cass, The Heir/ J.K. Rowling/John Mark Green/G. N. Solomon, Blood So Black/ Sorcery & Cecelia, Caroline Stevermer/Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice/Haruki Murakami/Anais Nin/Carrol Bryant/Hanif Kureishi/C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House/Che Guevara/Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls/Glenn van Dekken/Tony Kushner/Unknown/Unknown/John Green/John Irving/Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (Leven Thumps, #1)/Victor Hugo/Jack Weatherford, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire/Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate/Shane Koyczan/Elie Wiesel/Natalie C. Parker, Steel Tide (Seafire, #2)

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“En el interior de cada uno de nosotros hay una capacidad inimaginable para la bondad, para dar sin buscar recompensa, para escuchar sin hacer juicios, para amar sin condiciones”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Fue una psiquiatra y escritora suizo-estadounidense, y una de las mayores expertas mundiales en la muerte, personas moribundas y cuidados paliativos.

Nació en Zúrich Suiza en julio de 1926, se licenció en medicina en la Universidad de Zurich en el año de 1958, se mudó a la ciudad de Nueva York en donde continuó con sus investigaciones. En 1963, se graduó como psiquiatra en la universidad de Colorado y a lo largo de su carrera recibió múltiples doctorados honoríficos.

Su interés por la muerte comenzó en su época de estudiante, cuando visitó algunos campos de exterminio nazi tras la guerra. Durante ese tiempo, se sorprendió al ver que las paredes de los barrancones estaban llenos de dibujos de mariposas, las cuales convirtió en un símbolo de renacimiento hacia un estado superior.

Empezó como residente con pacientes con enfermedades mentales y posteriormente con enfermos terminales.

Fue muy criticada en un inicio así que empezó a impartir seminarios en los que participaban enfermos terminales que hablaban en público acerca de su situación. Ya para 1968, estos seminarios se convirtieron en cursos acreditados, y hoy en dia, los estudios sobre la muerte y el morir forman parte de la formación de estudiantes de medicina en muchos países.

Su libro, “Sobre la muerte y los moribundos” publicado en 1969 expone su conocido método Kubler-Ross por primera vez, y en este y otros doce libros, sentó las bases de los modernos cuidados paliativos, cuyo objetivo es que el enfermo afronte la muerte con serenidad y hasta con alegría.

Elizabeth Kubler enfocó su investigación en cinco etapas de duelo, (la negación, la ira, la negociación, la depresión y finalmente la aceptación) y se utilizaron para afrontar situaciones difíciles como mecanismo de defensa ante una perdida, no solo la muerte, sino eventualidades tales como la pérdida de un empleo, un divorcio o la partida de un ser querido.

En 1975 Elizabeth publicó entrevistas y testimonios de personas que habían vivido experiencias cercanas a la muerte en donde la gente narraba la experiencia de la muerte como una maravillosa forma de reencuentro con personas amadas y su trabajo sobre el mas allá, supuso un alejamiento de colegas médicos que habían valorado su trabajo, ya que a pesar de esto, ella no tenía dudas acerca de la supervivencia del alma.

En 1995 Elizabeth sufrió varios ataques de apoplejía y quedó paralizada del lado izquierdo. En una entrevista de 2002 decía que estaba preparada para morir, falleciendo finalmente en agosto de 2004. 

Fuentes: Wikipedia y Libro “La rueda de la vida”

[kamala-laxman]

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."  Elizabeth Kubler Ross

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Ohhhhh your horror movie is about struggling with grief and loss? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite elizabeth kubler-ross

[infinitedonut]

"... know that everything in this life has a purpose." - Elizabeth Kubler Ross

[linsaad]

If you dance at a lot of weddings,

you'll cry at a lot of funerals.

This means if you're present for many beginnings,

you'll also be there for many endings.

If you have many friends,

you'll experience your share of losses.

If you feel that you're suffering great loss,

it's only because you've been so richly blessed by life.

If you've made a lot of mistakes*,

that's better than having lived a life where you did nothing.

It's not unfortunate to have stars that you cannot reach

What's unfortunate is

not having unreachable stars

Elizabeth kubler Ross

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Speaking of book recommendations after I just shared a post of them...one of the ladies I volunteered with had a shit year a few years back, losing her son and other family members. With my sympathy card I sent her a typed list of books on grief and grieving that had helped me after losing Theriac (Joanne Cacciatore's Bearing the Unbearable, Louis LaGrande's Healing Grief, Finding Peace: 101 Ways to Cope with the Death of Your Loved One, and Raymond Moody's Life After Loss are all pretty short, accessible, and offer a board first aid kit. Also, you could do worse than to grab some of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's lectures.). Apparently it really helped her, and this past weekend she told me she still had the list and passed it on to a relative of hers who lost her husband this year.

Not all of the advice in every book is going to help; there are some aspects of grief I doubt any book can actually help with. But the recommendations are successful, I'd guess, because a) reading can occupy your mind when you're grieving (and you might as well read about grief because you're not going to be distracted from it), b) learning something new helps people feel more in control of their life & environment and can offer a sense of hope, c) even if the recipient never reads any of the books, being given a book list is a way to say "I care about you and want to help" which is a good message to send. From my own grief experience I also think it's especially powerful to hear "I went through something similar to you and this is what helped me" - it's proof there's life on the other side.

Anyway, 2 more book recs for 2 quite different end-of-life outcomes, which I think you should ideally read before any of your loved ones die so you can actually use the information (also, honestly? Very helpful writing research):

Final Journeys and Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan -- a hospice nurse's guide to the kinds of decisions, conflicts, and sometimes puzzling behavior and experiences encountered when a loved one is in palliative care. Journeys is the more broadly practical book (from the 'writing research' perspective, it also offers some great examples of conflict, memorable scenes, and psychology insights); Gifts looks particularly at spiritual experiences at the end of life, including end of life visions (which happen to all kinds of people and can be a good thing to be prepared for regardless of your own spiritual beliefs). If Gifts proves fascinating, a more recent book on the subject of end of life experiences is Death is But a Dream.

I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One is for the opposite end of experience, where a loss is abrupt and unexpected. It offers advice, myth-busting, and real-life stories from people who are bereaved through suicide, crime, and accidents. I recommend this for everyone because 1) It could happen to you (speaking as someone it's happened to multiple times) and having some knowledge ahead of time will not make it less painful, but could make it less bewildering, 2) It could happen to your loved ones, friends, and co-workers, and you can be more supportive with some knowledge, 3) Back to writing research: this book's information on myth-busting, how grief affects children at different ages, tips for coping when a loved one's' death is part of a tragedy that brings media attention, and vivid examples of the various ways real people have responded to grief can make you a more accurate writer. And I'll be honest, as someone who's Been There, when I read a book that was clearly written by an author who hasn't Been There and hasn't even tried to figure out what it's like, it's ranges from annoying to offensive to actively painful. [Also, if you want to do better at understanding+ depicting grief, read grief memoirs: Elizabeth McCracken's An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination is about miscarriage but resonated so strongly with my very different grief experiences, so I think it's tapping into something, if not universal, at least very broad; Sonali Deraniyagala's Wave, about the loss of multiple generations of her family in the Boxing Day tsunami, manages to depict events and feelings that verge on the indescribable.]