Edmund Bourne Quotes

United States, Writer
1950

Edmund J. Bourne is an American self-help author, psychologist and researcher on anxiety, anxiety disorders and the treatment of anxiety disorders. He was the director of The Anxiety and Treatment Center in San Jose and Santa Rosa, California. In 1990, Edmund Bourne published The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, a self-help book that won the Benjamin Franklin Book Award for Excellence in Psychology.This book is now in its 6th Edition. A forthcoming 7th Edition will be released in 2020.

Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

Edmund Bourne
Although in the West yoga is usually thought of as a series of stretch exercises, it actually embraces a broad philosophy of life and an elaborate system for personal transformation. This system includes ethical precepts, a vegetarian diet, the familiar stretches or postures, specific practices for directing and controlling the breath, concentration practices, and deep meditation.

Edmund Bourne

Workaholism is an addictive disorder in which work is the only thing that gives you a sense of inner fulfillment and self-worth.

Edmund Bourne
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.

Edmund Bourne
It’s hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you’re scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.

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- Belief
- Accept
- Validity
Listen to what your higher wisdom has to say about how you can deepen your participation in the global shift-through personal healing, changing your worldview, or finding ways to help others and the environment. This is how you can both heal yourself and help humanity. At their deepest level, the two are joined and ready to awaken to a new world.

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Taking responsibility means you don’t blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don’t blame yourself.

Edmund Bourne
Once you can comfortably walk three or four miles without stopping, consider taking hiking trips—day or overnight—in county, state, or national parks. Hiking outdoors can revitalize your soul as much as it does your body.

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- Soul
- Consider
- Trips

We are so used to “doing” that it may seem like a chore just to “be.”

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- Doing
- Chore
An anxious mind cannot exist in a relaxed body.” Body and mind are inextricably related in anxiety.

Edmund Bourne
- Anxiety
- Exist
- Relaxed