Mind Body Connection Quotes

“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign- body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on- alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

“Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don't turn your hair gray. Don't carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don't lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!”
― Bryant McGill

“No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a little
time to form new and better ones. But I promise you this: Even a slight move in this direction will bring you some peace. The more effort you apply to it, the faster you’ll find your bliss, but you’ll experience rewards immediately.”
― Holly Mosier

“You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.”
― Germany Kent

“Learn to read symptoms not only as problems to be overcome but as messages to be heeded.”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

“Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

“Two chemicals called actin and myosin evolved eons ago to allow the muscles in insect wings to contract and relax. Thus, insects learned to fly. When one of those paired molecules are absent, wings will grow but they cannot flap and are therefore useless. Today, the same two proteins are responsible for the beating of the human heart, and when one is absent, the person’s heartbeat is inefficient and weak, ultimately leading to heart failure.

Again, science marvels at the way molecules adapt over millions of years, but isn’t there a deeper intent? In our hearts, we feel the impulse to fly, to break free of boundaries. Isn’t that the same impulse nature expressed when insects began to take flight? The prolactin that generates milk in a mother’s breast is unchanged from the prolactin that sends salmon upstream to breed, enabling them to cross from saltwater to fresh.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

“Nature loves efficiency, which is very odd for something supposedly working at random. When you drop a ball, it falls straight down without taking any unexpected detours. When two molecules with the potential for bonding meet, they always bond- there is no room for indecision. This expenditure of least energy, also called the law of least effort, covers human beings, too. Certainly our bodies cannot escape the efficiency of the chemical processes goings on in each cell, so it is probable that our whole being is wrapped up in the same principle. This argument also applies to personal growth- the idea that everyone is doing the best he or she can from his or her own level of consciousness”
― Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

“As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregivers don't only feed us, dress us, and comfort us when we are upset; they shape the way our rapidly growing brain perceives reality. Our interactions with our caregivers convey what is safe and what is dangerous: whom we can count on and who will let us down; what we need to do to get our needs met. This information is embodied in the warp and woof of our brain circuitry and forms the template of how we think of ourselves and the world around us. These inner maps are remarkably stable across time.

This doesn‘t mean, however, that our maps can‘t be modified by experience. A deep love relationship, particularly during adolescence, when the brain once again goes through a period of exponential change, truly can transform us. So can the birth of a child, as our babies often teach us how to love. Adults who were abused or neglected as children can still learn the beauty of intimacy and mutual trust or have a deep spiritual experience that opens them to a larger universe. In contrast, previously uncontaminated childhood maps can become so distorted by an adult rape or assault that all roads are rerouted into terror or despair. These responses are not reasonable and therefore cannot be changed simply by reframing irrational beliefs.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these rights. Instead, we tend to drift along, victims of our own ignorance of the fact that we can have what we want, if we are willing to take that first step toward developing the self-discipline to govern our thoughts.”
― Holly Mosier

“It’s the perception that creates the thought that creates the feeling.”
― Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

“The link between our minds and bodies holds a well of potential when it came to radical healing — even mainstream medicine accepts that our stress levels and thought patterns, for example, can impact our physical health.”
― Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

“Everything we put into our bodies — from foods and toxins to thoughts and feelings — can shift immune function at a base level.”
― Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

“As noted, since we store our memories physically in our body, we are depositing our trauma physically in our body.”
― Kenny Weiss, Your Journey To Success: How to Accept the Answers You Discover Along the Way

“Illness begins in the soul, and when a healing occurs there, the physical body then “catches up” to this new reality.”
― Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

“Living by principles is not living your own life. It is easier to
try to be better than you are than to be who you are.”
― Marion Woodman, Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study

“When we grow accustomed to neglecting beauty, we eventually become creatures of hatred. We lose our imagination, a virtue to which wonder is helplessly tied. Why care for barren land? Why advocate for justice in a system predicated on injustice? We become so accustomed to that bitter taste that we can taste nothing else. Slowly, even mirrors feel like an oppression. We become unable to conceive of anything worthwhile in our own image until we empty ourselves of all beauty and turn against our own bodies in disgust.”
― Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

“Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of this really works. But the mind can certainly affect the body.”
― Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

“Recent research is showing that we actually have three “brains” — the head brain, heart brain, and gut brain — and our health and development depend on keeping them in balance and alignment.... Some signals begin in the gut, or the heart, and flow upstream to the head brain, while others cascade from above. In this way, our thoughts and emotions have both instant and long-lasting effects on all our biological systems: nervous, endocrine, immune.”
― Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

“[When the negative mind is neutralized through meditation], the body is set free to do what nature designed it to do: repair itself.”
― José Silva, The Silva Mind Control Method

“We must create a biological environment in the body and mind that sets the stage for healing.”
― Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

“The fear and the excitement responses in our brains are exactly the same.”
― Kenny Weiss, Your Journey To Success: How to Accept the Answers You Discover Along the Way

“The very process of being alive means that we are constantly being inundated with fractious elements which work against our body’s integrity. We need a healthy, quiet body to do whatever it is we have come to do. Connecting with the earth is one of the quickest, most effective ways of helping our body restore itself.”
― Donna Goddard, Touched by Love

“Our minds are powerful instruments capable of shaping our reality. By cultivating positive, focused, and empowering thoughts, we initiate a transformative process within ourselves.”
― Sam Izad, Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

“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

“By controlling our breath, we can willfully influence the brain and the autonomic nervous system and litterally change our mind-body state. By changing the pattern of our breathing, we change the pattern of the information being sent to the brain. In other words, how often, how fast, and how much you inflate your lungs directly affects the brain and how it operates.”
― Dan Brulé, Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond

“Movement is the language of the brain. Through mindful action, we engage the body’s deepest intelligence, transforming clutter into clarity”
― — Aram

“Movement is the language of the brain. Through mindful action, we engage the body’s deepest intelligence, transforming confusion into clarity”
― Aram

“The mind lies, the body doesn't”
― Aram