Quotes About Wellness

I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.

Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

I do believe that the single most important thing I could ever share with you with regard to maximizing the health, harmony, and happiness in your life can be summed up in just two words: Love yourself.

Suddenly cancer can be seen in a different light—as an adventure into healing one's body, mind, and spirit.

Thich Nhat Hanh writes that one of our biggest faults is to fail to celebrate not having a toothache. The idea goes something like this: We all know how painful and irritating it can be to have a toothache, and we all suffer when we do, but why is it we never take time to think how nice it is not to have a toothache?

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

you should also take care in preventing people from dumping negative thoughts into your brain. Healthy bodies require healthy diets that are free of junk, and cultivating a healthy mind requires much the same.

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'

I'll tell you one thing. Being with you keeps a girl fit.' The Doctor beamed breathlessly at her. 'Fun to be with and good for you. Gotta be just what the doctor ordered.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

If you want to take a good shit, you have to eat a good meal.

Research has documented the healing power of confiding in others. James W. Pennebaker's research on the correlation between suppressing our stories and illness, on the one hand, and telling our stories and increased health, on the other, is especially compelling and well researched.11 As Russ himself later said: "Nothing got better for me until I began to talk about it.

See how you feel, and always give in gracefully if that particular day is not your day to fast.

Don't be closer to twice a friend's weight than to her actual weight," I told myself. This little mantra has helped me stave off obesity for more than two decades.

The truth is, if I were going to lose weight successfully, I would have to think about what I eat constantly. I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with watching what I eat.

But for years I just chose to never do any strength training because it seemed hard. It wasn't until a particularly disturbing night when I couldn't lift myself off the sofa because of lack of upper body strength that I decided it was time to see a trainer. I

I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with watching what I eat. I

In my thirties, I gained a sense of calm that came from professional stability and, although this is not backed by science, a general slowing of my metabolism, which is why I can gain seven pounds from eating one heavy dinner.

can that be? You're not in good shape. And that is true! But this is the paradox of my life. I love running because it puts me in an instant good mood, and I think I read on the back of a box of Cheerios that it's good for my heart. But I also love alcohol, fast-food hamburgers, and eating gluten. So it's a perilous teeter-totter that I am trying to get away with until my doctors tell me I'm in trouble.

the book The Sedona Method by Hale Dwoskin offers excellent support for working with negative thoughts in this way.

Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.