Quotes about Mind-body

Medical science has come to understand that there is a strong relationship between a person's mental and physical health (Proverbs 14:30, 15:30, 16:24, 17:22).

God may be screaming at us through our physical body while we look for (and prefer) a more "spiritual" signal. The reality is that often our bodies know our feelings before our minds.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.

The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Good health is multifaceted - it's physical, it's internal, it's my diet, and my emotional state. It's all tied in together.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's how you;ll prepare your bodies and your minds for greatness.

Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you're feeling right now is related to how you're using your body.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.