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Treatment originates outside you healing comes from within.

Andrew Weil

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
Medical Doctor
Medical Writer
Physician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Andrew Thomas Weil
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Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor's office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes.
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Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.
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It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.
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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
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Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
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I've always been called controversial. I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.
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Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
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Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful meditation can help you do that.
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I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.
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I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.
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Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.
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More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.
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Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.
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Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.
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Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
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