For me exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic.
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)
Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.
I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.
If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.
You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.
Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.
Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.
I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.
There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.
When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.
What I do is more than just the clothes. It's getting out whatever is inside that's screaming the loudest. I wouldn't call it therapeutic. It's not that conscious.
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.
It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.
Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.
What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.
