GiaK Posted April 11, 2014 Posted April 11, 2014 I particularly like the first quote in this collection...check it out! Below is a small collection of quotes on healing. I found all of them in the book I first quote from below by Donald Epstein: Somato Respiratory Integration Workbook. I’ve found the book very helpful in that it seems to articulate what I’ve been developing for myself as a mode of healing my body/mind. It serves as a form of validation for my own intuition as well as offering suggestions for structuring such intuition. Illness is a lack of wellness. Wellness is the experience of vitality, a desire to participate fully in life, take chances, and have an internal state of well-being. When ill, a person checks out of her participation in life, resists change, is concerned about ones circumstances, and often her mortality. Illness does not have to be associated with the presence of any disease. Wellness does not have to be associated with the elimination or reduction of disease. Healing…is associated with a shift from illness to wellness and from wellness to greater wellness. Naturally, when experiencing wellness, the body’s physiology is liberated to more effectively negotiate disease and challenging environmental and life circumstances. By not trying to battle disease, control anything, or return to any previous state, and instead attempting to advance wellness, the healing forces, the spirit of life, and the biochemistry that supports healing is greatly enabled to work more effectively. —Donald Epstein, from Somato Respiratory Integration Workbook and Healing is basically the result of putting right our wrong relations to our body, to other people…and to our own complicated minds, with their emotions and instincts at war with one another and not properly understood and accepted by what we call “I” or “me.” The process is one of reorganization, reintegration of things which have come apart. — Laurence J. Bendit, MD from The Spirit in Health and Disease and Healing may be defined as a miraculous unfolding of consciousness for one’s being in the world. We learn who we are, what and who really matter to us, how to express ourselves fully and openly. Ultimately, the healing journey leads to an intimate union with God through the experience of the flow of God’s spirit within. It is a slow, arduous passage, unique for each individual, filled with danger and risk, triumph and joy, and finally, peace, trust, awe, reverence, love, tenderness. — George L. Hogben, MD More musings on healing from Beyond Meds: What does it mean to heal? Original post: http://wp.me/p5nnb-aIR Everything Matters: Beyond Meds https://beyondmeds.com/ withdrawn from a cocktail of 6 psychiatric drugs that included every class of psych drug.
Moderator Emeritus Narcissus Posted April 15, 2014 Moderator Emeritus Posted April 15, 2014 I like all of those Gia, thanks! 3 Years 150 mgs Effexor 2 month taper down to zero 3 terrible weeks at zero Back up to 75 mgs 2 months at 75 6 or so months back to regular dose of 150 - was able to restabilize fine. 3 month taper back to zero 1 HORRENDOUS week at zero 2 days back up to 37.5 3 days back up to 75 One week at 150 - unable to stabilize. Back down to 75 mgs At 75 mgs (half original dose) and suffering withdrawal symptoms since October 2012. "It is a radical cure for all pessimism to become ill, to remain ill for a good while, and then grow well for a still longer period." - Nietzsche
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