# Healing

Healing is the process by which the cells in the body regenerate and repair, as well as the psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems. With physical damage or disease suffered by an organism, healing involves the repair of living tissue(s), organs and the biological system as a whole and resumption of (normal) functioning. Within surgery healing is more often referred to as recovery. Healing is also referred to in the context of the grieving process. In psychiatry and psychology, healing is the process by which neuroses and psychoses are resolved to the degree that the client is able to lead a normal or fulfilling existence without being overwhelmed by psychopathological phenomena.

## Quotes

* Contact with the sun should be much sought after, and the vitalization that comes through its rays. The sun kills all germs and frees from disease.
** Alice Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation, p. 334 (1922)
* The free use of salt sea bathing has a definite effect on the healthiness of the physical body. The water, incidentally absorbed through the medium of the skin and by the mouth, has a vitally prophylactic effect.
** Alice Bailey, Esoteric Healing, p. 62 (1953)
* Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame — if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.
** David A. Bednar, in That We Might “Not … Shrink” (D&C 19:18), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (3 March 2013)
* There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds, in the ebb and flow of the tides; in the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in these repeated refrains of nature-the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
** Rachel Carson Speech (1954) In Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1998)
* For of the most High cometh healing.
** Ecclesiasticus, XXXVIII. 2.
* Baby I'm hot just like an oven. I need some lovin'. And baby, I can't hold it much longer. It's getting stronger and stronger. And when I get that feeling. I want Sexual Healing. Sexual Healing, baby. Makes me feel so fine. Helps to relieve my mind....Sexual Healing is something that's good for me.
** Marvin GayeSexual Healing, co-written with Odell Brown and David Ritz.
* Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason.
** Hippocrates, Precepts, Ch. 1, as translated by W. H. S. Jones (1923).
* these words, these words are proof there is healing
** Linda Hogan (writer) Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)
* Realize the healing power of prana. The torpor of life is dispelled in the pure rays of the sunset.
** Morya, Leaves of Morya’s Garden, Book One, The Call, 138. (1924)
* Do not look to the god of sickness for healing but only to the God of love, for healing is the acknowledgment of Him. When you acknowledge Him you will know that He has never ceased to acknowledge you, and that in His acknowledgment of you lies your Being. You are not sick and you cannot die. But you can confuse yourself with things that do. Remember, though, that to do this is blasphemy, for it means that you are looking without love on God and His creation, from which he cannot be separated. Only the eternal can be loved, for love does not die. What is of God is His forever, and you are of God. Would He allow Himself to suffer? And would He offer His Son anything that is not acceptable to Him? If you will accept yourself as God created you, you will be incapable of suffering. Yet to do this, you must acknowledge Him as your Creator. This is not because you will be punished otherwise. It is merely because your acknowledgment of your Father is the acknowledgment of yourself as you are. p. 230
** Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, The Correction of Error, (1976)
* Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species. That's not a judgment. It's a fact. It is also a fact that the sanity is there underneath the madness. Healing and redemption are available right now.
** Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997) p.55
* The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness... To recognize one’s own insanity, is of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
** Eckhart Tolle]], A New Earth... (2005)
* Indeed, we may regard it as an axiom, that the knowledge which is anywhere possessed of the art of healing, is the measure of the refinement and civilization to which the people have attained. Man is civilized by virtue of social relations; and refinement is the becoming divested from grossness, vulgarity, and the evil manners which are characteristic and incident to a living for one's self alone. Selfishness is savagery; and a state of society in which self-interest is the ruling element is hardly yet reclaimed from the state of barbarism. It is of little avail to appeal to skill in mechanics, engineering, and other attainments in the plane of material evolution. These are not adequate proof of spiritual advancement. Kindly sentiment toward others, sincere regard for their welfare, charity in will and act, make the only real culture and civilization. The art and technique of healing proceed from these qualities, and cannot flourish apart from them.
** "Alexander+Wilder" Alexander Wilder, History of Medicine: A Brief Outline of Medical History and Sects of Physicians, from the Earliest Historic Period; with an Extended Account of the New Schools of the Healing Art in the Nineteenth Century, and Especially a History of American Eclectic Practice of Medicine, Never Before Published (1901)
* I think that, uh, you know, I'm really happy that the message, or at least some of the message of The Secret is reaching mass consciousness in a way that people realize that they can begin to, uh, positively affect their lives. That's why when I was on the show and said "I've lived this way my whole life", and people who watched our show for years know that I've been talking about how you take responsibility for your life and the choices that you make. Empower your life. And so, when I say that, you know, um, that's how I live my life, the message of The Secret, that's what I mean. I also believe, that, uh, medical healing or healing comes in lots of forms. You know that adage about the guy being lost and God sent him a boat and God sent him — then he gets to heaven and says "Why didn't you help me?" And God's, "I sent you the boat, fool!" So, that's the way I look at medical healing.
** Oprah Winfrey To Kim Tinkham, who wrote Oprah that she watched her show about The Secret, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, and decided to heal herself instead of a mastectomy and chemotherapy that four doctors told her she urgently needed, on The Oprah Winfrey Show (March 2007)

## See also

* Alternative medicine
* Medicine

## External links

Wikipedia pages:
* Healing (disambiguation)
* Faith healing
* List of esoteric healing articles
* Self-healing