5 Quotes & Sayings By Jeanne Achterberg

Jeanne Achterberg is a full-time author with a passion for writing and a thirst for knowledge. She has achieved a great deal of success since joining the ‘Self-Publishing Movement’. Jeanne has been an avid writer all of her life, but has recently taken to publishing her own work as well as writing articles for magazines and professional journals such as: Self Publish Magazine, The Heart of Self Publishing, the Alive Journal, the American Author Magazine, and The Author Unleashed. She also runs ‘The Author Unleashed Community’, an online community where she offers guidance and support to those who are just starting out on their journey as authors Read more

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The greatest mischief of medicine has occurred because life was not honored. Women have been robbed of the glory of their own bodies with, in recent times, removal and mutilation of reproductive organs and breasts, and the treatment of natural passages of life -- birthing, menstruation, menopause -- as disease. Jeanne Achterberg
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In a balanced viewpoint that includes both masculine and feminine perspective, healing is seen not as a technique, but as a process. Jeanne Achterberg
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Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease. Jeanne Achterberg
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Health is being in harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric. Health is maintaining communication with the animals and plants and minerals and stars. It is knowing death and life and seeing no difference. It is blending and melding, seeking solitude and seeking companionship to understand one's many levels. Unlike the more "modern" notions, in shamanic society health is not the absence of feeling; no more so is it the absence of pain. Health is seeking out all of the experiences of Creation and turning them over and over, feeling their texture and multiple meanings. Health is expanding beyond one's singular state of consciousness to experience the ripples and waves of the universe. Jeanne Achterberg