Mind Body Quotes

“Longing for Heaven won’t help you to make the most of this lifetime, the one you have now.

Especially if you’re interested in Spiritual Enlightenment, don’t treat this precious human life like some pathetic kind of consolation prize.”
― Rose Rosetree, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day

“In practical terms, you’re only responsible for what you say and do.

Beware frittering away this precious lifetime by trying to make it all about energy. You asked for a human life, and now you’ve got one.”
― Rose Rosetree, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day

“The symptomatology of PTSD.
In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims. Again and again they relieve the life-threatening experiences they suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events were still occurring. PTSD is a complex psychobiological condition.”
― Babette Rothschild, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

“Which matters more to you, God or pretty illusions that you’ve been taught in God’s name? (Or have you been clinging to the austere illusion of emptiness?)

Consequences will flow from your choice.”
― Rose Rosetree, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day

“Wise people have always taken a passionate interest in how they spend their time.

What’s an essential skill now, for Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening? Do 20 Daily Minutes of Technique Time, neither more nor less.”
― Rose Rosetree, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day

“All of us humans are improvising how to live well in the Age of Awakening, ways that are new and simple and sacred.”
― Rose Rosetree, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day

“Unless you’re shopping in a store, “new” does not come with a label attached, nor with a price tag.”
― Rose Rosetree, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day

“Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.”
― Larry Dossey, Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing

“You must make a place for fear, fear under control. We think that the head is important, that the brain sits like a monarch on the throne of the body. But the body is powerful too, and the brain cannot survive without it.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out.”
― Stephen Richards

“It’s all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses.”
― Helen M. Ryan, 21 Days to Change Your Body

“Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.”
― Sandy Oshiro Rosen, Bare: The Misplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing

“Caring for others tends to be the first cut when we review our personal time budget. It does not necessarily fulfill the goals of my ambition; it will not pave the way for my success; it takes away from my own depleted emotional resources. It is an imposition in every way. To some of us, it is an inconvenience from which we unashamedly run. We have become experts in maintaining a grand scope of friendships and amateurs in genuine intimacy and care. Unwittingly, we have sacrificed everything on the altar of self-sufficiency—only to discover that we have sold our souls to isolation.”
― Sandy Oshiro Rosen, Bare: The Misplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing

“We possess no criterion which enables us to distinguish exactly between a psychical process and a physiological one, between an act occurring in the cerebral cortex and one occurring in the sub-cortical substance; for 'consciousness', whatever that may be, is not attached to every activity of the cerebral cortex, nor is it always attached in an equal degree to any particular one of its activities; it is not a thing which is bound up with any locality in the nervous system.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols

“What was the one underlying cause of acne according to this patient, and to others who I talked to after that day? They felt they were doing something wrong. In patients’ minds, they were somehow to blame for this whole ordeal.”
― Aarti Patel, Acne: Just Another Four-Letter Word

“Century after century, the belief that an individual’s physical health was independent of his or her emotional health has so dominated medical thought that there has even been open contempt for anyone who would dare to claim that a person’s physical well-being is the sum of its internal and external influences.”
― Sandy Oshiro Rosen, Bare: The Misplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing

“At every instant or stage of a correct act, it can be stopped, withheld from continuing, or reversed without any preliminary change of attitude and without effort. [Ch.12]”
― Moshé Feldenkrais, The Potent Self: A Guide to Spontaneity

“Mind instantiates oneself into matter. In a mathematical sense, matter is an “in-formed” pattern of mind. Time is emergent, and so is space. If space-time is emergent, so is mass-energy. All interactions in our physical world is computed by the larger consciousness system. In short, mind is more fundamental than matter. All realities are observer-centric virtualities.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality

“Intellectual activity is incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance

“Our bodies are the quanta and our minds are the qualia - together they form a physical entity capable of interaction with many forms in the universe.”
― Rajeev Kurapati, Unbound Intelligence: A Personal Guide to Self-Discovery

“There's an apt expression: 'If you don't live in your body, where are you going to live?' But many of us don't. We tend to get locked into our heads or our imaginations . . . recognizing the importance of the body is primary. It's who we are, it's where we live, it houses and embodies your mind and imagination.”
― Bill Connington, Physical Expression on Stage and Screen: Using the Alexander Technique to Create Unforgettable Performances

“The enemy can only be defeated by surpassing the limitations of one's own mind and body.”
― Patricio Telman Chincocolo

“When your body, mind, soul, and spirit are tuned into your thoughts, feelings, and actions, your life will change!”
― Deborah Lucero, Be F*#%Ing Amazing!: 70 Healing Insights to Live Your Full Life

“. . . Seven hundred thousand people in our society (and their families) who will experience stroke this year. (p.xiv)”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD

“There's an apt expression: 'If you don't live in your body, where are you going to live?”
― Bill Connington, Physical Expression on Stage and Screen: Using the Alexander Technique to Create Unforgettable Performances

“Unresolved mental problems get stuck in our bodies and try to talk to us through pain if the subtler ways have failed to reach us.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“We are masters at not seeing the obvious. So, our body takes on the connection for us. Once we relieve it of this responsibility, it usually jumps for joy and jumps right out of whatever physical predicament it had to acquire on our behalf. The karmic dumping ground of our body is the storehouse of many memories. Bodies have their own highly effective way of doing the talking.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“I treat my body and mind as two separate entities most of the time, my body is an annoying failing bag of meat allowing me to live, whilst my mind is what I consider to be my actual self. Neither my mind nor my annoying meat would be alive without the NHS.”
― Hannah Hodgson, 163 Days

“My initial yoga teacher training made sense of so many things for me. It validated that your body is connected to your thoughts, energy, emotions, and how you view yourself. I learned that this influences your behaviors, reality, connection to your soul's purpose, or lack thereof.”
― Lillian So, So Empowered: Discover the Five Layers of the Body To Take Control of Your Life