Quotes About Mind-body

I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short distances, and fast. I'm no good at long distance. More than six miles, and the knees start to go.

O funcÈ›ionare incorect? a psihicului poate d?una în mare m?sur? corpului, dup? cum, invers, o suferin?? fizic? poate s? atrag? participarea la suferin?? a sufletului; c?ci sufletul È™i corpul nu sunt ceva separat, ci sunt mai degrab? una È™i aceeaÈ™i via??. Astfel, rareori exist? o boal? a corpului care s? nu fie complicat? psihic, chiar dac? nu este determinat? psihic.

The body is not a mindless machine; the body and mind are one.

I have lectured and written about the important role of perception and awareness in health and longevity—how awareness can actually transform matter, create an entirely new body.

Das Schlimme bei passionierten Reitern ist, dachte er, daß die ständige Stimulation der Geschlechtsorgane zwangsläufig die Gehirntätigkeit behindert.

She reasoned that since the disease affected her lungs, learning to breathe properly might help. She asked the research team at Stanford to teach her, but no one could tell her what healthy breathing was!

He thought, I haven't got much longer before some sort of collapse. He could not think if this would be a collapse of mind or of body. Mind and body seemed utterly fused now in cold aching pain, and darkness.

There are a lot of forms of exercise where you have to leave yourself out of the room while you force yourself to do this thing. With Pilates, I get to bring my true self. I cry, I laugh. I get to go, 'Where is my body today? What do I need today? How can I take care of myself and push myself past my comfort zone?'

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.

In addition, it has been demonstrated that meditation can help with the following: lowering blood pressure decreasing symptoms in illnesses with a stress-related component (ulcers, for example) decreasing serum cholesterol levels reducing muscular tension reducing oxygen and energy consumption improving sleep In short, it has been scientifically proven that meditation is awesome.

The breath has, then, a profound effect on man's physical and psychological functioning since it is the link between the body and mind. The nose, therefore, as the major portal of breath into the body, plays a crucial role.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

Freeing the body contributes to freeing the mind.

I enjoy the gym. I think if you're fit in your body, you're fit in your mind. So I get up most mornings and I'm first there usually. I stay in there for an hour, an hour and a half, do my work, shower and then I have a nice breakfast.

your biography—that is, the experiences that make up your life—becomes your biology.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Any spiritual healer on the planet would probably tell you that at the root of all cancer is a seed of anger. When anger festers, it promotes cancer

Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.

If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.

You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.

Skin symptoms like other symptoms are often well-intentioned but doomed attempts to make our lives better.... They are doomed because we're trying to use our skin to do things the skin is not designed for. I tell my patients, "try to feel your emotions in your heart, not in your skin."

I've been learning martial arts - nothing specific, as then it becomes one-sided - but basic exercises.