Quotes on Health and Healing
Health is a state
of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
(World Health
Organization, 1948).
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and
spirit (B.K.S. Iyengar).
The Old
English word hal
yields
three words in modern English, whole,
meaning `complete'; hale,
meaning `healthy,' (heard often in the collocation "hale and
hearty"); and holy,
`sacred.' (Integrity Dialogue Hopes
Thwarted)
Medicine & meditation come from the same root. Their
meaning is the same - to heal. Medicine heals the body,
Meditation heals the soul (Osho)
repossess
the power of our health/wholeness/holiness in a new and
uniquely functional manner (Spirit and Practice of the Wise Woman
Tradition
c. 2001 by Susun S.
Weed).
To be healed means to be joined with the whole. To be ill
means to be disconnected from the whole (Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh. 1984. The
Book. Series
I. Rajneeshpuram, OR: Rajneesh Foundation International, p.
621).
Awareness heals because awareness is truly whole, and healing
is fundamentally a return to wholeness (Chopra, D.
2009. The
Ultimate Happiness Prescription. New
York: Harmonay Books, p. 38).
Healing has to occur on three planes: Mental (thinking),
Emotional (feeling) & Physical (outcome) (Rev. Reggie
Howard).
The desire to be healthy is part of ignorance. The desire not
to be ill is also part of ignorance (Osho.1994. From Medication to
Meditation. Saffron
Walden: C. W. Daniel. p. 309).
The body's health and illness is its own affair. If you want
to do something about it, you are still attached to it. It
will take its own course; you need not be much worried about
it...Only witnessing is something absolutely eternal -
everything else goes on changing, everything else is in flux
(Osho.1994. From
Medication to Meditation. Saffron Walden: C. W. Daniel. p. 312).
Balance is
the foundation of Chinese medicine, which seeks to find and
correct imbalances that give rise to illness and symptoms of
disease (Chinese Medicine: Keeping the
Balance).
The recent explosion of interest in alternative care –
including such disciplines as psychoneuroimmunology – has
made is quite clear that the person’s interior
states (emotions,
psychological attitude, imagery, and intentions) play a
crucial role in both the cause
and
the cure
of even
physical illness (Ken Wilber. 2000. A
Theory of Everything. An Integral Vision for Business,
Politics, Science and Spirituality. Boston:
Shambhala, p. 91).
laughter and humor are therapeutic allies in healing (Billy
Strean. 2008. The
HoHo Dojo. New
York: Random HAs, p. 92)
Remember, the happiness you discover within yourself is the
key to healing the entire world (from the back cover of the
book by Chopra, D. 2009. The Ultimate Happiness Prescription.
New York: Harmony Books)
[see also Laughter
Quotes,
Laughter through Laughter
Yoga,
Healing Thinking and
Being,
and my
book in progress on Materialism,
Holism, and Mysticism - A Mandala]