Susanna Kaysen Quotes

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Illness cannot exist in a body that has harmonious thoughts.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

I stay healthy by dealing with things! Seriously, emotional and spiritual health is most important.

As you begin to heal the inner you, you alter your immune system.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. They can be a powerful influence for good when they're on the positive side, and they can and do make you physically ill when they're on the negative side. I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts! Let me tell you, junk thoughts can destroy you even more quickly than junk food. Junk thoughts are something to be wary of.

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.

For me exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic.

To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit.

He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart