Rachel Cusk Quotes

If you are able to see the interrelatedness of mind and body, sensitivity towards your body becomes much sharper. Therefore, maintaining of good health also becomes easier.

We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.

When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.

What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages.

There are a lot of forms of exercise where you have to leave yourself out of the room while you force yourself to do this thing. With Pilates, I get to bring my true self. I cry, I laugh. I get to go, 'Where is my body today? What do I need today? How can I take care of myself and push myself past my comfort zone?'

When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.

I think yoga gives me awareness not just about my body from the outside but also about my internal organs. I feel it's very important because it teaches you self-realization of your body.

I've learned to listen to what's going on with my body.

You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.

I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for so many years. I abused it a lot.

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

If you talk to your body, it will listen.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.