William James Quotes

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.

The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.

Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves - all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.

Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.

Belief creates biology.

The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

Your body can dictate your mind... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.