Brain-Body Connection Quotes

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.

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.

Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his brain did not stop with the grey matter but extended through every muscle in his body.

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.