Quotes About Mind

This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth." Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness)

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can also invent peace with justice.

Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can begin in the body and affect the mind, both of which are served by the same bloodstream. Attempts to treat most mental diseases as though they were completely free of physical causes and attempts to treat most bodily diseases as though the mind were in no way involved must be considered archaic in the light of new evidence about the way the human body functions.

Belief becomes biology.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes,

an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off,

2. A brain cannot think without motor function. Wrote Feldenkrais, "My fundamental contention is that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality, that these entities are not related to each other in one fashion or another, but are an inseparable whole. To put this more clearly: I contend that a brain could not think without motor functions.

and in one moment, his completely conscious brain turned all his pain off. If only he could learn how to flip that switch for his patients!

Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. Psychiatrist Dr. Susan Vaughan has argued that the talking cure works by 'talking to neurons,' and that an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a 'microsurgeon of the mind' who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

Posit Science,

How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

The human mind is a swirl of activity mostly centered around self preservation and self justification.

You cannot tell a man's intention by looking at his forehead, you must look through it to the inside of his head; and no judge and jury are capable of looking through the skull of a man who has done nothing but talk to see what goes on inside." And

His powers of memory were awe-inspiring, but only about matters on which he had fearsomely concentrated his mind.

All currency is neurotic currency.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Negation is the primal act of repression; but it at the same time liberates the mind to think about the repressed under the general condition that it is denied and thus remains essentially repressed.