Quotes About Mind-body

My career began somewhat accidentally. In the 1960s, I started a practice in the fledgling field of mind-body healing. Around that time, it was completely in its infancy. I had been developing a protocol to use body awareness as a tool for stress reduction.

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

How we "feel"—tired or energetic, listless or enthusiastic—is mental and chemical; it is physiological.

Despite women's experience or knowledge of sexual violence, despite whatever is going on in their marriages and how their husbands behave, women are expected to engage with enthusiasm in sex. [Women] have to make a separation between the sex in which they 'let go' and become enthusiastic and the rape they experienced last night or the pornographic advert they saw on the underground this morning. What is required is either a mind/body split or an eroticising of the oppression itself.

Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together.

We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies.

Según el plan de los Simonton, la mujer tenía que dedicar parte de la jornada a dibujar batallas entre células con forma de insecto, como si fueran un tebeo. Si en estos dibujos las células cancerosas no aparecían "muy débiles [y] desorientadas", y las de las defensas no se mostraban "fuertes y agresivas", la paciente estaba tonteando con la muerte y tenía que esforzarse un poco más.14

Combine mind plus body with freshly updated data, some of it perhaps collected on your self-monitoring devices, and act quickly to generate fresh instructions to forestall any looming problems. This, I imagine, is how Silicon Valley "immortalists" spend their time—scanning all the health-related information and instantly applying it—which may seem a small price to pay for eternal life.

standing up straight with your shoulders back is not something that is only physical, because you're not only a body. You're a spirit,

Every cell, nerve, tissue, and muscle of my lungs are now being made whole, pure, and perfect. My whole body is being restored to health and harmony.

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.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

That afternoon they ended up dancing to Amr Diab in Yazz's room Yazz tells Waris it's important to counterbalance the state of being cerebral with the state of being corporeal Waris asks her if she means they need to do physical activity because they spend too much time thinking? Yes, that's it, Yazz says, making elaborate movements with her arms as she dances Why didn't you just say that then?

If a person deals with anger or despair when they first appear, illness need not occur. When we don't deal with our emotional needs, we set ourselves up for physical illness.

I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.

The habit of quiet, sustained, and sequential thought, directed to non-worldly subjects, of meditation, of study, develops the mind-body and renders it a better instrument; the effort to cultivate abstract thinking is also useful, as this raises the lower mind towards the higher, and draws into it the subtlest materials of the lower mental plane.

Est-ce étrange qu'un simple malaise, un trouble de la circulation peut-être, l'irritation d'un filet nerveux, un peu de congestion, une toute petite perturbation dans le fonctionnement si imparfait et si délicat de notre machine vivante, puisse faire un mélancolique du plus joyeux des hommes, et un poltron du plus brave ?

Good health is multifaceted - it's physical, it's internal, it's my diet, and my emotional state. It's all tied in together.

This seems like one of the hardest things about being sick in the way you're sick: being sick makes you stressed. But being stressed makes you sicker.

When I repress my emotions, my stomach keeps score … 1 —JOHN POWELL

it's important to counterbalance the state of being cerebral with the state of being corporeal

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures.