Quotes About Self-care

And don't forget to forget to floss.

Back in 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the "doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of [the] human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of diseases.

Waist-to-Height Ratio, or WHtR.120 Instead of a scale, grab a simple measuring tape. Stand up straight and take a deep breath, exhale, and let it all hang out. The circumference of your belly (halfway between the top of your hip bones and the bottom of your rib cage) should be half your height—ideally, less. If that measurement is more than half your height, it's time to start eating healthier and exercising more regardless of your weight.121

Those randomized to even just thirty seconds a day of a cold-water blast ended up taking off fewer sick days from work.3484 Foods

Overall, most sleep improvement interventions tend to show improved weight loss, giving a positive spin to the phrase You snooze, you lose.

7 Just as you don't have to wait for your physician to tell you to stop smoking, you don't have to wait to start eating healthier

Back in 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the "doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of [the] human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of diseases."12

Your body has a remarkable ability to recover from sporadic insults as long as you're not habitually poking it with a fork.

When your smoking habit erases the antioxidant-boosting effects of eight hundred cups of kale, you know it's time to quit.

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can't give yourself

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

He laughed to himself he said because if he did not laugh he would cry.

When I focus on me, I increase my anxiety.

You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

to stimulate the body's natural self-curative abilities.

the most effective method for self-treatment of tension-related ailments

Acupressure is one way to help your body fight back and balance itself in the face of the pressures of modern life.

Make these Ego Dumps into a ritual. You could write, Archangel Michael, Archangel Rafael, Archangel Gabriel, higher self, higher team, and all angels, guides and light workers, here for my highest good and the highest good of all, (or simply Dear Inner Wisdom) please help me to heal these wounds once and for all. Then shred and shred and shred.

Never let an old person live in your body.

This is the part where they try to make you remember," said Sadie. She looked at my wrists. "Is it working?" Without realizing it, I'd pushed one sleeve of my pajamas up and was rubbing the gauze that circled my wrist. I stopped, and let the sleeve fall back where it was.

I asked the doc, and he said that when people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.