Quotes About Wellness

children in the "green" day care, who played outside every day, regardless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

While outdoor activities in general help, settings with trees and grass are the most beneficial.

The more high tech we become the more nature we need.

thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can even be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorders and other maladies.

The greener the setting, the more the relief.

As an adult, giving presentations at local high schools, I noticed that I can get teenagers to focus and calm down by showing images of the natural world. Being close to nature saved my life.

spare time in the garden, either digging, setting out or weeding; there is no better way to preserve your health.

As far as physical fitness goes, today's kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren't outside.

just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

nature can help people recover from "normal psychological wear and tear"—

The presence of some serious budgetary myopia is obvious here, as the vast majority of money is spent on studying diseases and virtually none is spent on understanding why healthy people are healthy in the first place.

Our breathing has been a friend that has accompanied us through every moment of life; it has never deserted us no matter how terrible we have felt. Friendship in itself connotes a quality of feelings that has elements of warmth, trust, and welcome. Our hearts always relax when we greet a friend. Mandala of Being, Richard Moss MD

There is clearly a biochemical component to depression, and medication can be helpful for many people, but medication alone is not sufficient treatment for most.

a man with milk in his arteries and clabber in his veins.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

I've come to understand that the pain of a wound or a loss is over as it happens. What follows is the pain of getting well.

being conscious of the fuel-burning activities that you engage in every day is good for you.

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

She had found in the past that a voluptuously long, hot shower cold be made to seem almost as health-giving as a night's sleep; she had learned too that taking exquisite pains over the selection and putting-on of clothes could sometimes be as good a way as any of helping the hours to pass.

That information motivated me to get to a healthy weight so I could have a healthy mind.

The fact is, you will never reach your optimum health without paying attention to the spiritual dimensions of your life.

Our philosophy is that if it was grown on a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, leave it on the shelf.