Quotes About Well-being

Chronic, unrecognized anger and resentment reemerge in our life as depression, which is anger directed against oneself. If pushed further into the unconscious, it can re-emerge as psychosomatic illnesses. Migraine headaches, arthritis, and hypertension are frequently cited examples of chronic suppressed anger.

spirituality. In healthy intimate relationships we do not seek more than 25 percent of our nurturance from a partner; we learn to find the rest within ourselves.

we seem to have a choice—bypass the gastrointestinal tract or bypass the highly processed diet.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

Having more money doesn't necessarily make you happier, but more time can!

If there is one single, clear, and emphatic message I'd like to send with this revised edition, it is that we must pay close attention to the mind-body connection, especially the negative impact of prolonged feelings of helplessness and despair.

When left unattended, these feelings—not the stresses of life themselves—contribute to the inflammatory processes that can help cancer grow.

Why do you need to go outside? For one thing, to appreciate what it is that keeps you alive. And the more time you spend outside, the more you are able to sense change in that world. If you can smell something, chances are that unless it's flowers or food, it doesn't belong there and is not good for us. But even more profound, we have to get outside and seek nature because we need that connection for our physical and mental health.

To me, the real challenge is the human mind, which is driving our actions: our beliefs and values shape the way we see the world, which in turn determines how we will treat it. So long as we assume that we are the centre of the universe and everything revolves around us, we will not be able to see the dangers we create. To see those, we have to recognize that our very lives and our well-being depend on the richness of nature.

We know that deprivation of love can kill people. What are the effects of being deprived of a living environment?

If social authority aims at united action, epistemic authority aims at the truth, which is as necessary to human flourishing as social authority.

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Besides helping the person prayed for, it is likely that prayer benefits the person doing the praying. Studies show that regular acts of altruism prolong our lives and improve our own happiness.29 Prayer is good medicine for the person doing the praying as well as the receiver.

Mind to matter is not an abstract metaphysical proposition. It is a physical fact, as material as the bodies we live in. Thought by thought, moment by moment, our minds are creating the energy fields in which our cells reproduce. Positive thoughts provide our cells with an energy culture in which they thrive.

altruistic side effects include reduced stress; improved immune system functioning; a sense of joy, peace, and well-being; and even relief from physical and emotional pain.

When every one of those 810,000 new cells that your body creates each second is born in an energetic environment of kindness and love, it shapes their development.

What's the point of being involved with someone who makes you unhappy.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

The Trusting Heart, Dr. Williams describes how this research evolved.) In particular, the factors most toxic to the heart are self-involvement, hostility, and cynicism.

Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.

It's hard to be all that you can be on carrot sticks and criticism.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

If we can teach everyone how to calm their minds, this world will see peace.