Quotes About Mind-body

Tai chi is often described as "meditation in motion," but it might well be called "medication in motion." There is growing evidence that this mind-body practice... has value in treating or preventing many health problems.

There is an intelligence at work in my body. I am in awe. I had, until then, been pretty certain my brain ran everything. Not so, said the wise labouring body. Not so.

Half an hour, the Gottmans found, is also about how long it takes for the chemicals released during "fight or flight" to exit the body.

the reason that you exercise is actually more important than the exercises that you do perform. The reason can promote your good health or actually impede it. Thus

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

Fatigue should no longer be considered a physical event but rather a sensation or emotion.

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? I change my physiology. If I am near waves, I go surf them. If not, a short, intense kettlebell workout, a bike ride, a swim, a cold shower or ice plunge, Wim Hof or heart rate variability breathing [see Adam Robinson, for a description]. It's remarkable how the mind follows the body.

many forms of meditation in the world. Like when I study and work really hard, where it takes the ultimate amount of concentration, I can only do it for 45 minutes, maybe an hour. "I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the

Guarire lo spirito per mezzo dei sensi, e i sensi per mezzo dello spirito: questo è il segreto.

Ulcers frequently flare up or subside according to the hills and valleys of emotional stress.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.

Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

Every philosopher should be an athlete. If he is not, let us suspect his philosophy.

Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved, Kuang moving with him, evading his attackers with an ancient dance, Hideo's dance, grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die.

Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved ... grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die. And one step in that dance was the lightest touch on the switch, barely enough to flip- -now and his voice the cry of a bird unknown, she answered in song, three notes, high and pure. A true name.

Modern psychology, finding definite psycho-physical connections to hold good, assumes as a convenient hypothesis that the dependence of mental states upon bodily conditions must be thoroughgoing and complete.

Magic combines what Western thought has often separated as the physical and the psychological or emotional realms.

illness is actually a learned physiological response to specific stressors.

some psychiatrists believe that exercise (aerobic or anaerobic) can be as effective in healing depression as psychotherapy or antidepressant drugs.14