Quotes About Health

As children develop, their brains "mirror" their parent's brain. In other words, the parent's own growth and development, or lack of those, impact the child's brain. As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children.

attachment figure—someone who provides a safe haven where the other can be deeply seen and feel safe and secure. At other times we are the expert on the mind, and perhaps on the brain and relationships too, and on the notion of health and unhealth, ease and disease. Yet our patients are also experts in their own right, deeply knowledgeable in other domains. Our patients are certainly expert in being themselves.

People exposed to emotional abuse as children have been found to be at higher risk of developing medical illnesses later in life,

To state this more succinctly, awareness of the body's state influences how we organize our lives. Knowing your body strengthens your mind.

This is the way we can keep our selves well: with regular exercising of our attunement to ourselves through mindfulness practices.

El ejercicio aeróbico no sólo es beneficioso para los sistemas cardiovascular y músculo-esquelético, sino también para el sistema nervioso. Aprendemos con más eficacia cuando estamos activos físicamente.

pattern of healthy living involves the integration of energy and information within the nervous system and between people. Integration is the organizing principle that links the ways energy and information flow is shared (relationships), is shaped (the mechanisms of the embodied nervous system or, termed simply, the brain), and is regulated (the mind).

This process of linking differentiated parts into a functional whole is called "integration." As we'll see, integration is a unifying principle that will help us to understand the linkage of mind, brain, and relationships throughout our discussions. Furthermore, in IPNB, we propose that integration is the heart of health. Linking differentiated parts into a functional whole is called "integration.

WHAT IS INTEGRATION AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Most of us don't think about the fact that our brain has many different parts with different jobs. For example, you have a left side of

For example, research has shown that the more present we are in life, the higher the level of the enzyme telomerase in our bodies, which maintains and repairs the life-preserving ends of our chromosomes, called telomere caps.

mental health as our ability to remain in a "river of well-being.

We want to believe health and youth can belong to us forever; we want to deny the reality of transience in our lives.

Si no podemos afrontar adecuadamente una situación que nos abruma, la elevación de los niveles de cortisol puede hacerse crónica.

Hallar una manera de calmar un sistema límbico demasiado reactivo es esencial para reequilibrar las emociones y reducir los efectos perjudiciales del estrés crónico.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

Much of the discussion in this book is about biases of intuition. However, the focus on error does not denigrate human intelligence, any more than the attention to diseases in medical texts denies good health.

I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

Getting kids into the kitchen preparing the food they and their families will eat results in them viewing food in an entirely new way. If given the right ingredients, that act alone can raise the standards of the quality of the food both they and their family eat.

I want to work on changing the way this country views exercise and nutrition.

I have strong views against substance usage and abuse. It's bad for kidney and central neuro system.

I've always had strong views on social issues such as hospitals - I think we should have a good health system - and the education system, too.

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.