"Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change."
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"Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing."
"Rest as soon as there is pain."
"Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us"
"We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
"I am rooted, but I flow."
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
"The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist."
"Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers."
"Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely."
"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."
"I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did."
"Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle."
"The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul."
"The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form."
"The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be."
"Fasting is the first principle of medicine."
"I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process."
"Be with those who help your being."
"Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning."