Quotes About Physiology

The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

The healthiest way I know how to move through an emotion effectively is to surrender completely to that emotion when its loop of physiology comes over me. I simply resign to the loop and let it run its course for 90 seconds. Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. Over time, the intensity and frequency of these circuits usually abate. Really powerful thoughts

I believe that the power which the spleen possesses of regulating its amount of blood depends entirely upon mechanical properties.

In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.

The arteries are found in nearly every part of the animal body, with the exception of the hairs, nails, and epidermis; and the larger trunks usually occupy the most protected situations, running, in the limbs, along the flexor side, where they are less exposed to injury.

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

Whole months have passed during which I haven't lived, but have merely endured, caught between the office and physiology, marooned in an inner stagnation of thinking and feeling. Alas, this is not a restful state to be in, for putrefaction inevitably involves fermentation.

I find it quite fascinating to see how the body works.

Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin,

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Tears, she had once been told, were designed to eliminate toxins, and they poured down her face and slimed her neck and gathered in the recesses of her collarbones and she had to be careful never to lie back and let them get into her ears, which might cause the toxins to return and start over. Of course, the rumor of toxins turned out not to be true. Tears were quite pure.

La mayoría de los hombres tienen el dedo anular más largo que el dedo índice, y la mayoría de las mujeres tienen el índice más largo que el anular.

tiene relación con la mayor o menor exposición a la testosterona en el útero materno.

Testosterone rots the brain . . .

Fear worked both ways - if you suppressed the physical symptoms, it calmed your mind.

ADAM'S APPLE, n. A protuberance on the throat of a man, thoughtfully provided by Nature to keep the rope in place.

Why should it hurt in my neck when I go down stairs? Does my neck take my weight? Does it?

Call it what you will, but this is the universal intelligence that's giving you life right now. It organizes and orchestrates the hundreds of thousands of notes in the harmonious symphony that is your physiology

So when we repeat a thought or an experience enough times, our brain cells make not only stronger connections between each other (which affects our physiological functions), but also a greater number of total connections (which affects the physical structure of the body). The brain becomes more enriched microscopically.

Hence, the title You Are the Placebo reflects the fact that it's your own thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that are generating chains of physiological events in your body.