As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.

I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives. It's the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.