Body-Mind Connection Quotes

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

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

If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

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.

Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done. And it starts with that breath; it starts with getting out of my head and really just slowing the system down and being in a true present moment with each and every breath. That then allows me to be a more balanced and focused individual onstage.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

I listen to my body but I'm just thankful to be alive so that I can.

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive 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.

Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.

Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.

The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

My body mirrors my state of mind. I am healthy, whole and complete