A
cheerful heart is good medicine.
Proverbs
17:22
If you don’t have love in your heart, you have the worst kind
of heart trouble.
Bob Hope
The sun shines not on us, but in us.
John Muir
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive
without zest.
Christian
Dior
Exercising can actually be a form of prayer—a thanksgiving
for the privilege of having a body and for simply being alive.
Regina Ryan and John Travis
Usually we are told how much time to spend at a certain exercise,
what heart rate to aim for, and which muscle to focus on toning.
Five hundred years ago Ficino gave somewhat different advice for
daily exercise. "You should walk as often as possible among
plants that have a wonderful aroma, spending a considerable amount
of time every day among such things." His emphasis is on the
world and the senses. In a former time, exercise was inseparable
from experiencing the world, walking through it, smelling it and
feeling it sensually, even as the heart got its massage from the
exertion of the walk.
Thomas Moore
The more I can love everything—the trees, the land, the water,
my fellow men, women, and children, and myself—the more health
I am going to experience.
Carl Simonton
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the Earth. Walk as
if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Walk your dog every day, whether you have a dog or not.
Paul Dudley White
It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye
For fast acting relief try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce
it.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da
Vinci
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved
in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David
Thoreau
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper
to a man when he goes for a walk.
Raymond Inmon
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow
their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while
cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
If we could loosen the grip we have on the mechanical view of our
own bodies and the body of the world, many other possibilities might
come to light. We could exercise the nose, the ear, and the skin,
not only the muscles. We might listen to the music of wind in the
trees, church bells, distant locomotives, crickets and nature's
teeming musical silence. We could train our eyes to look with compassion
and appreciation. . . . The ensouled body is in communion with the
body of the world and finds its health in that intimacy.
Thomas Moore
The way to a beautiful, strong, healthy body is to start by trusting
yourself right now. Let go of the struggle and surrender to your
body's needs. Your intuition will tell you what to eat. It may direct
you to exercise vigorously, in which case you'll enjoy it, or it
may tell you to slow down and rest. It may tell you to stay in bed
all day, or it may tell you to get up early. There are no rigid
rules. Your body knows perfectly well what's good for it.
Shakti Gawain
Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy levels,
health, and well-being to a far greater extent than most people
realize. Every thought and feeling, no matter how big or small,
impacts our inner energy reserves.
Doc Childre
and Howard Martin
Our cells are constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts and being
changed by them. A bout of depression can wreak havoc with the immune
system; falling in love can boost it. Despair and helplessness raise
the risk of heart attacks and cancer, thereby shortening life. Joy
and fulfillment keep us healthy and extend life. This means that
the line between biology and psychology can't really be drawn with
any certainty. A remembered stress, which is only a wisp of thought,
releases the same flood of destructive hormones as the stress itself.
Deepak Chopra
Everybody has a finite amount of energy and limits to what he or
she can do. Listen to your body. It will talk to you if you’re
willing to listen.
Phyllis George
My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul:
how to dance and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching
me how to heal. I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my
body—the subtle changes in temperature, muscle tension, thought
and mood—the way a sailor rides the wind by reading the ripples
on the water.
Kat Duff
When man is serene, the pulse of the heart flows and connects, just
as pearls are joined together or like a string of red jade, then
one can talk about a healthy heart.
The Yellow
Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine, 2500 B.C.
The natural healing force in each one of us is the greatest force
in getting well.
Hippocrates
The mind is our most ancient and greatest resource. It holds the
keys and secrets of getting well and staying well; of living and
dying. When it is honored in the mainstream of medicine, then health
will leap dramatically into its next and finest dimension.
Jeanne Achterberg and Frank Lawlis
We physicians need to reclaim the sacred nature of the work. Healing
is not a matter of technique or mechanism; it is a work of spirit.
True healing is not just about the recovery of the body . . . more
often, it's about the recovery of the soul.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
Albert Schweitzer
The human body is its own best apothecary. The most successful prescriptions
are those filled by the body itself.
Norman Cousins
The living body is the best pharmacy ever devised. It produces diuretics,
painkillers, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, antibiotics, and indeed
everything manufactured by the drug companies, but it makes them
much, much better. The dosage is always right and given on time;
the side effects are minimal or nonexistent; and the directions
for using the drug are included in the drug itself, as part of its
built-in intelligence.
Deepak Chopra
The decline of vigor in old age is largely the result of people
expecting to decline; they have unwittingly implanted a self-defeating
intention in the form of a strong belief, and the mind-body connection
automatically carries out this intention.
Deepak Chopra
And when you eat, never eat to fullness.
Essene Gospel of Peace
Breathing is the first place, not the last, one should look when
fatigue, disease, or other evidence of disordered energy presents
itself.
Sheldon Hendler, M.D.
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing
pattern.
Wilhelm Reich
Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.
Andrew Weil, M.D.
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted.
Then there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you
all the way to infinity.
Rumi
Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals
of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask
your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body
sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If
your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.
Deepak Chopra
The body is truly a miracle of miracles . . . and should be highly
respected and loved. To experience total aliveness, don't let your
health take a back seat to anything. Cherish, appreciate and nurture
your body.
Susan Smith Jones
The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment;
it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and
it should be treated with honor.
Martha Graham
The best medicine is to stop thinking about yourself, and start
thinking about other people.
Frederic Loomis
The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the
way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure
of the quality of a nation.
Hubert Humphrey
At this moment you are exhaling atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon,
and nitrogen that just an instant before were locked up in solid
matter; your stomach, liver, heart, lungs, and brain are vanishing
into thin air, being replaced as quickly and endlessly as they are
being broken down. The skin replaces itself once a month, the stomach
lining every five days, the liver every six weeks, and the skeleton
every three months. To the naked eye, these organs look the same
from moment to moment, but they are always in flux. By the end of
this year, 98 percent of the atoms in your body will have been exchanged
for new ones.
Deepak Chopra
Health depends on a state of equilibrium among the various factors
that govern the operation of the body and the mind; the equilibrium
in turn is reached only when man lives in harmony with his external
environment.
Hippocrates (circa 400 B.C.)
Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things.
Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately
involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real
health is harmony with the world.
Wendell Berry
We forget how intrinsically tied we are to the Earth—what
happens to her happens to us. The more barriers we build to confine
her wild places, the more ways we imprison ourselves. The more we
poison and pollute her, the more vulnerable we become to illness
and disease.
Cynthia Keyes
The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through
my veins night and day and dances in rhythmic measure. It is the
same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into
numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of flowers.
Rabindranath Tagore
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese Proverb
Kind words are like honey—
Sweet to the taste and good for your health.
Proverbs 16:24
Providence always comes to our help. When the need is immediate,
the intervention of providence is also immediate. It is not always
a matter of huge amounts, but of what is needed at a given moment.
Mother Teresa
of Calcutta
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for
the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate troubles,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The Buddha
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