Frank Bruni Quotes

In my 20s, I got into giving people massages and realised I was able to encourage their bodies to heal by passing my hands over them. I'd never describe myself as a faith healer - it's just that if someone believes in this type of healing, I can help release whatever blockage it is that's preventing them healing themselves.

I like a semi-stressful massage - one where I can really feel something being worked out.

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.

I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

I think acupuncture, reflexology, Reiki, and Shiatsu massage are remarkable, and I used them for years to help with injuries and as a preventative measure.

As for what rejuvenates me - deep tissue massages. I am addicted to massages.

I have found myself able to cure people with my hands.

I love a long, deep-tissue massage where they really get in there and remove the knots!

I see a Reiki healer from time to time. She sits on my bed, and I lie in her lap. She puts her hands on me for about 45 minutes, and she reads my energy. Whenever I'm having a hard time, I call her. I also go to weekly therapy, and that has been invaluable. Also, getting on medication for my 'neural atypicalities,' I guess we might call them.

I don't think you should rely on medicine. I think you should rely upon herbal doctors, acupuncture, and doctors outside the medical world, with different kinds and forms of treatment.

Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be reassuring when you've exhausted the Western doctor tool kit, and the doctors are sending you to acupuncturists for pain relief.

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

[about her offer of a Swedish massage] Alex: You're not Swedish. Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.

I also carry a clear-and-rose-quartz chakra wand in my handbag.

Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.