health

The main reason for healing is love.

Paracelsus

   

Healing is not the same as curing.  Healing does not take us back
to what was before, rather, Healing brings us closer to our true Self.

unattributed

      

The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or
violence inflicted upon us as children.  Our greatest hindrance
is our ongoing capacity to judge, to criticize, and to bring
tremendous harm to ourselves.  If we can harden our heart against
ourselves and meet our most tender feelings with anger and
condemnation, we simultaneously armor our heart against
the possibility of gentleness, love and healing.

Wayne Muller

  

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself--
but that force is not independent of the belief system.  Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

Norman Cousins

   

Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the
field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.
If you break a bone it will heal itself.  All the doctor does is
make sure the pieces of the bone are properly set back together.

Wayne Dyer

  

Healing ourselves on the spiritual level involves developing a strong
connection with our soul.  We heal ourselves on the mental level as
we become aware of our core beliefs, release those that limit us, and
open to more supportive ideas and greater understanding.  Emotional
healing takes place as we learn to accept and experience the full range
of our feelings.  And we heal ourselves on the physical level when we learn
to honor and care for our bodies, and for the physical world around us.

Shakti Gawain

   
   

   
Healing requires from us to stop struggling,
but to enjoy life more and endure it less.

Darina Stoyanova

   

If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened
understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a
healing crisis and opportunity.  Being sick is then not a condemnation
or a moral judgment, but a movement in a larger process
of healing and restoration.  When sickness is viewed positively and in
supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal,
with the concomitant result that the entire person
may grow and be enriched in the process.

Ken Wilber

   

A person who hides the truth
that he or she is sick
cannot expect to be cured.

Ethiopian Proverb
  
  
It's far more important to know
what person the disease has
than what disease the person has.

Hippocrates

   

Miracles rest not so much upon healing power coming suddenly
near us from afar, but upon our perceptions being made finer,
so that for the moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear
what has been there around us always.

Willa Cather

   

   
There once was a wise sage who wandered the countryside.
One day, as he passed near a village, he was approached by
a woman who saw he was a sage and told him of a sick child
nearby.  She beseeched him to help this child.  The sage came
to the village, and a crowd gathered around him, for such a man
was a rare sight.  One woman brought the sick child to him,
and he said a prayer over her.

 "Do you really think your prayer will help her, when medicine
has failed?" yelled a man from the crowd.

 "You know nothing of such things!  You are a
stupid fool!" said the sage to the man.

The man became very angry with these words and his face grew
hot and red.  He was about to say something, or perhaps strike out,
when the sage walked over to him and said:  "If one word has such
power as to make you so angry and hot,
may not another have the power to heal?" 

 And thus, the sage healed two people that day.

unattributed

   

Healing is the journey.  The destination is yourself.  The full recognition of all
the different aspects of yourself—your joy, your sorrow, your pain,
your pleasure—all lead you to the source of who you are.  Only by
having intimate contact with this source can you experience the fullness
of your life.  Only by fearlessly looking within can you embrace the landscape
of your life and open yourself completely to all the love
and compassion that lives inside you.

Philip Berk

   
   
Healing takes time.  Despite great advances in medicine, the biggest
part of your recovery is attributable to the enormous healing power
inside you.  The body heals itself according to its
own timetable--anxious thoughts never hasten recuperation.

Criswell Freeman

  

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating
recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

Bernie Siegel

   

Drugs are not always necessary.
Belief in recovery always is.

Norman Cousins

  

  

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule
find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt
the more difficult task of living wisely.

Rene Dubos

  
It's supposed to be a professional secret, but I'll tell you anyway.
We doctors do nothing.  We only help and encourage the doctor
within.  We are at best when we give the doctor who resides
within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

  

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Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

Carl Jung

  
    
More people die of their medicines than their diseases.

Moliere
    

Unfortunately, all is not beauty and peace.  I don't believe I've ever met a person
who hasn't been challenged or wounded by something.  Difficulties present choices:
we can either waste away from our wounds or use them to grow our souls.
My husband, for example, is a survivor of the Second World War.  As a child,
he suffered through six years of bombings, near-escapes, and concentration camps.
Part of his soul work has been the gradual transformation of this deep well
of grief and pain.  As he heals himself, he also participates in healing that terrible idea
of war in others.  I have always said that no one heals alone--we heal through and for one another.


Joan Borysenko

   

When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated
it as the enemy.  I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd
fight together to defeat it.  This was the wrong thing to say to someone
who was the last one to be picked for any team.  I was much happier
sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players.  I was
totally unskilled at defeating anything.  So I secretly went my own
way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing
experience.  I decided I would develop a friendly relationship
with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

Dawna Markova

   
   

     




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