Quotes about Mind-body

Dr. Lown's story graphically illustrates the enormous power that strongly held beliefs, which are in actuality just thoughts, can have on our health.

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

The growing "epidemic" of stress, lifestyle diseases, and autoimmune diseases has no root cause according to mainstream medicine, yet that root cause seems simple to us: it's really an epidemic of not loving the self.

The body is a delicate and plastic instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.