To every individual who takes self-healing action. You are helping the human race to remember how to awaken and master the healer within. To the parents, grandparents, teachers, neighbors, and friends who pass this practical wisdom on to the children.
To the health care organizations, physicians, nurses, health educators, and wellness professionals who are actively implementing programming founded on health enhancement, stress mastery, and the interactions of the body, mind, and spirit. To teachers, politicians, corporate executives, ministers, and rabbis who encourage health enhancement. As you offer this knowledge and these tools to the people in your community, you are demonstrating service and love of the highest order. You are fostering the return of the lost value of self-reliance, so critically needed in our communities today.
To my circle of mentors, which includes numerous ancient and modern physicians, Native American medicine people, Chinese and Ayurvedic doctors, Hawaiian healers, and especially my own grandmother, who taught me self-healing methods in my youth.
To Marjorie Love, who administered liberal doses of love and support, the profound medicines that mothers give. She was able to offer me the freedom to follow my own alternative impulses, which have now led to this remarkable work in the realm of human empowerment through practical wisdom and inspiration.
And to Rebecca, from a heavenly source, a co-worker in lifes fascinating flow, who heals through the sound of her voice, her listening, and her connection to the divine.
My grateful acknowledgment for your support and encouragement is most sincere.
In the world of books: Andrew Weil for pointing out a way in what seemed like impassable complexity. Jeremy Tarcher for patient guidance, clear and benevolent. Larry Dossey for his pure ideals and his kind support, and for helping to shine the light of science on the human spirit. Muriel Nellis, my agent, for opening a door where none could be seen. Caroline Pincus, my editor, for gentle brilliancean artist in the human realm as well as in literature. Now I know why authors adore their editors. The Harper San Francisco teamPaul, Sally, Amy, Greg, Rosanapractical, tireless, spirited.
In the realm of health enhancement, the self-healing arts, and medicine: To Taoist Master Chang Yi Hsiang (Dr. Lily Siou), who gave me entry into the beautiful mystery of Chinese Taoist Medicine and revealed Qigong (Chi Kung) as the source, heart, and essence of the Asian healing arts. To Weng Chi-Hsiu (Daniel Weng), who taught me the value of dedicated training in Kungfu through his own discipline and who gave me my first and favorite Taiji (Tai Chi). To Doctor Ernest Shearer, who transformed me from a student of medicine into a clinician with a powerful vision of the healer within. To the wonderful, open-hearted master teachers at the institutes, hospitals, and temples in China who have so freely shared the arts of self-healing with a hope for worldwide healing. To the members of the original Wednesday Practice Session, who helped to bring the health enhancement methods to a broader audience, and to the hospitals in Santa Barbara as well as the Adult Education program and the City Recreation program for helping to support the weekly practice session over the years.
The information and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for appropriate medical treatment. Please consult your health professional, preferably one with sound knowledge of the healer within, when you are dealing with serious health challenges.
PRAISE FOR
T HE H EALER WITHIN
Some of the greatest miracles occur when people are informed and inspired. Dr. Jahnke does a splendid jobinforming us of the marvel of the healer within, providing us with self-healing tools that are easy to use and then telling us the stories that provide the inspiration.
Jack Canfield, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul book series
The most profound healing resources are produced within us. Dr. Jahnke has created a beautiful bridge to the mysterious domain of the Chinese self-healing arts. The Healer Within makes ancient mind/body secrets accessible to everyone.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, author of Your Erroneous Zones
Roger Jahnke has provided us a practical, easy-to-follow, daily ritual for self-healing. He is a genuine modern-day Taoist with thorough, down-to-earth knowledge of both the East and the West. And he shares his experience and wisdom with insight, warmth, and tender loving care.
Chungliang Al Huang, Living Tao Foundation, author of Embrace the Tiger, Return to Mountain , and with Alan Watts, Tao: The Water-course Way
The Healer Within provides an effective view of one of the most overlooked pathways to healthsimple self-healing methods that are easy to understand and easy to implement. Distilling his experience of more than two decades as a healer and teacher, Dr. Jahnke has used the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine and developed it into an impressive set of methods for self-healing.
Clement Bezold, Ph.D., president, Institute for Alternative Futures
Roger Jahnkes gem of a workbook brings ancient Eastern modalities into our hectic Western lives.
Candace B. Pert, Ph.D., research professor, Georgetown University
Nothing can guarantee your recovery if you lose your health. The Healer Within presents you with the opportunity to choose health over illness.
C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., founder of the Shealy Institute for Comprehensive Health Care and founding president of the American Holistic Medical Association