Quotes About Awareness

So choose foods that take longer to eat, and eat them in a way that prolongs the time they stay in your mouth. Think bulkier, harder, chewier foods, such as apples, carrots, or intact grains, eaten in smaller, thoroughly chewed bites. Snack on raw veggies, and fall in love with soup. If possible, extend meal duration so it lasts at least twenty minutes to allow your natural satiety signals to take full effect.

7 Just as you don't have to wait for your physician to tell you to stop smoking, you don't have to wait to start eating healthier

diagnosis is considered a "teachable moment" when we can motivate a patient to improve his or her lifestyle.152 By then, though, it may already be too late.

We eat almost as if the future doesn't matter.

Leanwashing is the term used to describe companies that try to position themselves as helping to solve the obesity crisis when, instead, they're directly contributing to it.

A great deal of intellectual intelligence depends on emotional intelligence.

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...

Not that i wrote it on the wall, but i was here... i lived and that's all that matters.

You don't have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.

There is nothing the heart doesn't already have. It's the mind that thinks it needs something more.

The greatest gift you can offer anyone or anything, is your undivided attention.

when we have cultivated a healthy space within, we can hear, see and feel our intuition more clearly.

The inability to access our intuition is primarily caused by the excess of clutter in our minds and in our lifestyles.

Allow there to be space inside so that you can hear the messages clearly.

Sit in silence and the world is yours.

The mind sees a world full of problems and complains. The heart sees the world as it is and smiles.

Before they can know what they need, they need to know who they are. This is one of Belichick's core philosophies, and it is why he was sitting in this Gillette Stadium room with a binder, notebook, pens, and pages of football statistics.

In some ways it seems like the more intelligent i get the more aware i become of my own inherited doom

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall into the clutches of the wolf.

To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.

Personally, I didn't take a single photograph while I was there, but that's not all that unusual for me. I suppose my aversion to snapping pictures may have something to do with shaky hands and blurry results, but there's another reason: The act of lifting up the camera and positioning it between me and the object of my interest separates me from the experience.

Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.

This message is so simple, yet it gets forgotten. The people living with the condition are the experts.

Being in control of your own destiny is a myth—and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.