Quotes About Wellness

I have come to understand that some of the deepest and most effective healing is not found at a doctor's office or a hospital, but rather from inside ourselves. Our bodies are designed for self-healing, and we are capable of both boosting and blocking that ability.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Nothing equals a good dump. To my way of thinking taking a decent shit is a life-affirming experience.

Because I have to treat the mental part of my disease. Quitting booze is one thing. Living with my brain sober is another.

Bowel movement?

Those who worked out at least once a week performed 9.8 percent faster, solved 5.8 percent more math problems, and had 2.7 percent better spatial memory than those who never exercise.

Heal another's heart and in the process you will heal your own.

Treatment of depression or sleep disorders, whether a primary cause of fatigue or secondary to a medical disorder, may be beneficial. Withdrawal

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.

think it's doing yourself a lot of good to go out and exercise on these hazy days? think again. you might as well sit down... and smoke a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.

According to ayurveda, we become what we surround ourselves with. And so it stands to reason that we have to be discerning about what we surround ourselves with." Steve Cope [p. 85]

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

To make the most of my time in the outdoors, sometimes I'll treat walking through nature as more of a moving meditation. I'll listen to something slow and positive like Rising Appalachia, Trevor Hall, Nahko, or East Forest (all worth checking out if you don't know them), or simply put on a Pandora station for yoga workout music.

If you ever feel bloated after a meal, it's a sign that your body is reacting to the foods you ate. It's not necessarily a "food allergy," but it may be that your body is reacting to the foods in a way that can cause inflammation and, eventually, weight gain. Try eliminating wheat from your diet entirely for two weeks and see if you feel better. Then do the same with dairy. You'll be amazed how effective this is—

It's all about eating real food! Sweet potatoes come from the ground, maple syrup comes out of a tree, carrots grow in the dirt, bees make honey, and hopefully we can all find more and more pasture-raised, grain-free, cruelty-free animals for protein. Because what our animals eat becomes what we eat, too. I don't see ever getting too far from these principles. Real food is medicine, and I like to put the highest-quality food into the only body I will ever have.

To put this in perspective, if you cooked these three meals at home instead of going out to eat, you'd save yourself, on average, 2,381 calories and 6,724 mg sodium over the course of just three nights.

Equipment needed Chair/ bench Jump rope Slam ball Mat Tabata timer Set of dumbbells (10 pounds) Optional—additional dumbbells (5 and 15 pounds)

The subgenual prefrontal cortex (sgPFC) is actually a part of the brain that's responsible for our self-image. When you're in a calm, positive place, this section of your mind is relatively quiet. But when it gets stimulated, you start to think negative thoughts about yourself. In other words, controlling the impulses in your brain is an essential part of any mind/ body fitness plan. And how do you do it? Simply by spending a little time in nature.

No one with panic attacks and anxiety has ever gone 'crazy,' " the site claims. "In fact, because you realize that you have panic attacks, this is just another indication that you are not going crazy. People that 'go crazy' lose contact with reality. Anxious people are too much in contact with reality. Thus, people with panic and anxiety problems NEVER 'go crazy.' It simply cannot happen.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Complete Blood Count (blood test)—This test checks the health of your blood, including red and white blood cells. People with low blood count can feel anxious and tired, and they can have significant memory problems.