Quotes About Wellness

A compassionate approach leads to less addiction.

digital detox is 'not the solution, for the same reason that wearing a gas mask for two days a week outside isn't the answer to pollution.

Joel Nigg] believes you can only ethically give out drugs if you are also at the same time trying to solve the deeper problem.

I don't look at screens for two hours before I go to bed,

Trying to lose weight in the environment we've built is like trying to run up an escalator that is constantly carrying you down. A few people might heroically sprint to the top - but most of us will find ourselves back at the bottom, feeling like its our fault.

I was told by my doctor that I was suffering from both depression and acute anxiety. I had believed that those were separate problems, and that is how they were discussed for the thirteen years I received medical care for them. But I noticed something odd as I did my research. Everything that causes an increase in depression also causes an increase in anxiety, and the other way around. They rise and fall together.

the English doctor had realized that when you give a patient a medical treatment, you are really giving her two things. You are giving her a drug, which will usually have a chemical effect on her body in some way. And you are giving her a story—about how the treatment will affect her.

De todos modos, seguimos pensando que podemos curar la depresión por la vía conceptual. Yo lo veo más sencillo. Primero arreglemos lo fisiológico. Sal. Muévete».

Sleep deprivation damages memory as well.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

In most cases, Joanne says, we would have to stop talking about "mental health"—which conjures pictures of brain scans and defective synapses—and start talking about "emotional health." "Why do we call it mental health?" she asked me. "Because we want to scientize it. We want to make it sound scientific. But it's our emotions.

Nine million Americans--4 percent of adults--are using prescription sleeping pills, and vastly more are using over-the-counter sleep aids.

Many of the things we need to do are so obvious they are banal: slow down, do one thing at a time, sleep more. But even though at some level we all know them to be true, we are in fact moving in the opposite direction: toward more speed, more switching, less sleep.

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Beautify your breath - beautify your life.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

I promote a healthy lifestyle.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

Dance keeps me fit! It's been a huge benefit in my life and it will forever be a part of me.