Quotes About Mind-body

The metaphysician knows that all disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first "heal the soul.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind.

By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.

To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible. That's my motto. In other words, an unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

People get caught up in the idea that health is just what you look like and what you eat, but your health is physical, emotional and mental. Who's to say eating that bowl of ice cream after training isn't going to help me psychologically and emotionally?

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

the best way to stay healthy is to talk to your body first:

Materialistic scientists have not been able to produce any convincing evidence that consciousness is a product of the neurophysiological processes in the brain.

the workings of consciousness are both more and less materialistic than we usually think: chemical reactions can induce thoughts, but thoughts can also induce chemical reactions.

I want to stay active. I want to find that mind-body connection every single day, and I want other people to have that because we spend our lives on our phones, at our desks. We're not thinking about our bodies and the mental connections we should be having, and those moments help us push through to live our best life.

Even thinking, it turns out, affects the ways genes work. How fast a man's beard grows, for instance, is partly a function of how much he thinks about sex (because thinking about sex produces a testosterone surge).

"You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop.

The highest form of medicine is the simplest and most honest activation of the placebo effect via self-induction.

somehow I realized that the same part of me that had been responsible for creating the tumor would also be responsible for un-creating it.

When we engage in what she terms a "high-power pose" where our bodies are more open and expansive—arms open as opposed to closed across our chest, standing straight with shoulders back as opposed to hunched with shoulders folded forward, occupying more space versus less—our brain and body respond by increasing testosterone and decreasing cortisol. Testosterone levels go up by 20 to 25 percent, and cortisol goes down by 20 to 25 percent.

Yes, at times in front of goal a fog descends. Perhaps the speed of my feet doesn't match up with that of my mind.

Yoga is an art and science of living.

I think you have to mix Pilates and yoga with cardio because I don't think you'll get the result you want to get if you're just doing yoga.

It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

I believe in a combination of exercises like yoga and Crossfit.

I think that whenever we're physical, not just in yoga, I think that physical exercise brings up a lot of emotional things. If someone's in a spinning class, they might just start crying. That just happens.

Yoga is immediately rewarding, whatever your level, because it's not about being able to attain the perfect lotus position. Each day, there is an improvement on the day before. It's not competitive; it's not a race. With yoga, the journey is the destination.