Psychosomatic Response Quotes

What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.

Whenever I feel nervous, I feel like I have to poop.

Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

There is no physical body, no matter what the conditions, that cannot achieve an improved condition. Nothing else in your experience responds as quickly as your own physical body to your patterns of thought.

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that's the only channel it has.