Quotes About Mental

La batalla está en su mente. Si usted está derrotado en su mente, ya ha perdido la batalla. Si

Always remember, there are three states of consciousness: the material, the mental, and the spiritual.

the core of addiction doesn't lie in what you swallow or inject—it's in the pain you feel in your head. Yet we have built a system that thinks we will stop addicts by increasing their pain. "If I had to design a system that was intended to keep people addicted, I'd design exactly the system that we have right now,

Antidepressant drugs that increase serotonin in the brain have the same modest effect, in clinical trials, as drugs that reduce serotonin in the brain.

The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety.

The science is so clear on this that a recent summary explained: "It is now obvious that stress can cause structural changes in the brain with long-term effects.

It said that we are, collectively, experiencing "a more rapid exhaustion of attention resources.

When we narrow our attention down into a spotlight to focus on one thing, that takes 'a certain amount of bandwidth,' and when we turn off the spotlight, 'we still have the same bandwidth - it's just we can allocate more of those resources' towards other ways of thinking. 'So it's not like attention necessarily goes down - it just shifts,' to other, crucial forms of thinking.

Our Western society is a bit ADHD-ish because we're all sleep-deprived…. It's huge.

Mental health is produced socially: the presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual, solutions.

forms of mental distress such as depression and anxiety have three kinds of cause: biological, psychological, and social.19 They are all real. This is known as the "bio-psycho-social model."20 It's simple. All three sets of factors are relevant, and to understand a person's depression and anxiety, you need to look at them all.

Stress isn't something imposed on us. It's something we impose on ourselves." Stress is a feeling. Stress is a series of thoughts. If you just learn how to think differently—to quiet down your rattling thoughts—your stress will melt away. So you just need to learn to meditate. Your stress comes from a failure to be mindful.

brain moment to moment, task to task—[and] that comes with a cost.

Allen Barbour, an internist at Stanford University, had said that depression isn't a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.