Quotes About Wellness

When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing.

If we take good care of ourselves, we help everyone. We stop being a source of suffering to the world, and we become a reservoir of joy and freshness.

Don't worry if you don't have hours to dedicate to sitting. A few moments of sitting and conscious breathing can bring great happiness.

Eat in a way that is relaxing and brings you joy. It doesn't take too much organizing and the results are profound.

Eating well is an art. It doesn't require fancy cooking, but it does require practice and concentration. Your body is not just yours. It is a gift and a responsibility. To keep it healthy, we need to know how to eat.

Therefore, in order to take care of you, I have to take care of myself.

You guys get up too early for one thing, you should get up a little later. And your practice is too grim. I have just two instructions for you this week. One is to breathe, and one is to smile.

Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, it's very valuable.

Stopping, calming, and resting are preconditions for healing.

Before we can make deep changes in our lives, we have to look into our diet, our way of consuming. We have to live in such a way that we stop consuming the things that poison us and intoxicate us. Then, we will have the strength to allow the best in us to arise, and we will no longer be victims of anger, of frustration.

Every step brings you home to the here and the now, so you can connect with yourself, your body, and your feelings. That is a real connection. You don't need a device that tells you how many friends you have or how many steps you've walked or how many calories you've burned.

We need to practice resting even when we are not sick. Sitting meditation, walking meditation, and mindful eating are good opportunities for resting. When you feel agitated, if you are able to go to a park or a garden, it is an opportunity for rest. If you walk slowly and remember to take it easy, if you are able to sit and do nothing from time to time, you can rest deeply and enter a state of true ease.

You are more capable of helping yourself if you treat yourself with compassion and a loving heart.

if we face unpleasant feelings with care, affection, we can transform them to the kind that is healthy and that nourishes us.

If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.

Then you can use the positive energy in order to take care of the negative one.

When we feel suffering, we have the urge to run away from it and fill ourselves up with junk food, junk entertainment, anything to keep our mind off the pain that is there inside us. It doesn't work. We may succeed in numbing ourselves from it for a little while, but the suffering inside wants our attention and it will fester and churn away until it gets it.

May we eat only foods that nourish us and prevent illnes.. May we accept this food for the realization of the way of understanding and love.

There are no mental health services offered to Death Row inmates. For whatever healing is done they themselves must be the healers.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.