Roger Jahnke > Quotes

“The four preliminary methods of health enhancement and self-healing can be learned and practiced as individual techniques, or they can be combined. When gentle body movements, self-massage, breath practice, and deep relaxation are integrated into a single practice, they become even more powerful.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“In China the integration of these methods is called Qigong (Chi Kung), meaning “vitality enhancement practice.” In India it is called Yoga. Both of these Asian traditions of self-healing have been called “internal exercises,” “moving meditation,” or “meditation in motion.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“most of what we have come to call health care does not authentically and actually improve health.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines that we need. Norman Cousins,
editor, innovator, professor”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“With a doctor’s expert care you should be better in a week, but without access to the marvels of modern medicine your recovery will require at least seven days.” With or without a physician, with or without medical intervention, the natural medicine that we produce—our healer within—is working to heal us and sustain our health.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“THE MEDICINE It is the primary role of the physician, whether the African witch doctor or the modern doctor, to entertain the patient while secretly waiting for nature to heal the disease. Albert Schweitzer,
physician, philosopher”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“It is almost automatic that relaxation accompanies a deep breath. However, by adding the intention to relax to the breathing the result is even greater.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“Three areas, all based on personal choice and personal action, maximize the activity of our naturally occurring self-healing capability. The first is our choice of attitudes and mental influences. When we choose to think, believe, and act from a position of power, refusing to be a victim of circumstances, the healer within is automatically strengthened. When we refuse to live under the influence of worry and doubt, the internal medicine is enriched. The second area of choice is lifestyle: nutrition, exercise, rest, relationships, finances, work, spiritual practice, play, water intake, avoidance of alcohol and cigarettes, and so on. From moment to moment, each of us personally elects whether to enhance or sabotage the healer within through our behaviors and personal choices.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“and choice one may elect to trigger the benefits of contemplation and affirmation. Take a deep breath, relax, and repeat internally, “My body, mind, and spirit are always working to keep me supremely well.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“The third area of choice is personal self-care—the practice of self-healing and health enhancement methods.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“Ambroise Paré said, “I administered the treatment, but nature provided the cure.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing

“The integration of movement, breath, and voice helps to integrate and balance the body, mind, and emotions.”
― Roger Jahnke, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing