Quotes About Mind-body

Asana means the full expression of mind-body integration, in which you become consciously aware of the flow of life energy in your body.

The whole-system approach isn't just a bright shiny new model to replace the old ones—it comes closer to reality. Nature doesn't recognize human-made categories. Body and mind are one domain, and every organ, tissue, and cell works toward the same goal: sustaining life.

Vata: Thin body, quick, changeable mind, vivacious manner. These people strike others as unpredictable. Under pressure they grow excited and anxious. Pitta: Medium body, orderly and decisive mind, forceful manner. These people strike others as intense. Under pressure they become angry and abrupt. Kapha: Heavyset body, calm, steady mind, easygoing manner. These people strike others as relaxed. Under pressure they balk and grow silent.

If you are still thinking of yourself as two parts—soul and body, then you will inevitably confuse your psychological reactions with your spiritual life, and this is not only confusing to the understanding, but it can actually, in this very psychological age, lead you into real false teaching.

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.

Your mind will rejoin your body when it is safe to do so.

these connecting steps come to life at all levels—from the energetic, through mind-body, to the spiritual. The key to understanding this new level of healing is the prefix "re" —reattending, reconnecting, re-regulating, reordering healing.

If you disattend to your body (Step 1), this creates a disconnection within your body and between your body and the environment (Step 2), promoting disregulation in the body (Step 3), which would be measured as disorder in the system (Step 4), and be experienced as disease (Step 5).

The 114 Chakra psychology is a scientific process of balancing and synchronizing heart, head, body and mind for optimal health, happiness and well-being.

You've got to stay in the weight room because those type of exercises relieve stress and tension. It's just like a stretch, when you do weight-lifting programs and regimens.

Mental health and physical health are one in the same for me - they go hand in hand. If you aren't physically healthy, you won't be mentally healthy either - and vice versa. The mind and body is connected and when one is off, the other suffers as well.

I love Pilates - I am a really big believer in it as a practise; I think it's fab.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

You are your brain and your brain is you.

Smile. It creates positive physiological change.

Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.

It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

The body isn't the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.

Muscles are the way the body obeys the mind.