Overall Wellness
Overall Wellness
This is all more like a journey than a destination. It is what we do every day, consistently, to taking care of ourselves. It is an effort of focus on thriving rather than just surviving. It starts with mindset and translates into action, to allow the brilliance of our mind and body to go for optimum performance of whatever deck of cards we have to do the most with what we have. Here are some notable people with memorable thoughts to inspire and encourage on the subject of overall wellness.
Overall Wellness
Laird Hamilton
“Your body is smarter than you give it credit for.”
Wayne Dyer
“A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere."
Hippocrates
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
Muhammad Ali
“I never won a fight in the ring; I always won in preparation."
Andrew Huberman
"The key to success is
consistency, not intensity."
Virgil
"The greatest wealth is health."
Maya Angelou
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Breathing
Andrew Huberman
“Deliberate breath (regardless of the pattern) makes the mind visible.”
"The mind-body connection is real. By using techniques like deep breathing and visualization, we can tap into the body's natural healing mechanisms."
Laird Hamilton
"One of the best ways to become more conscious of your breath is to start breathing through your nose instead of your mouth."
“When I started focusing on my breathing, I became a stronger athlete and was better able to control my levels of effort and pain.”
Wim Hof, The Ice Man
"Deep breathing changes the chemistry of the body by bringing oxygen into the tissue."
"That's what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed."
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.”
Suzanne Somers
“Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You'll look and feel way better for it.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Take a deep breath and let it all go.”
Dr. Andrew Weil
If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be to simply learn how to breathe correctly.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika, 500-year-old yogic text
“When the breath wanders the mind is unsteady, but when the breath is calmed, the mind too will be still.”
Hydration
Henry David Thoreau
“Water is the only drink for a wise man.”
Lao Tzu
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
F. Batmanghelidj
“You're not sick, you're thirsty." author of Your Body's Many Cries for Water
Leonardo da Vinci
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
Oprah Winfrey
“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”
Abraham Hicks
“Drink an enormous amount of water. Every cell of your body, which is mostly water, would benefit because the energy transmission of your body is affected. The more water you drink, the more easily the energy flows!”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize winner
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”
Sleep
Benjamin Franklin
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Shawn Stevenson, Author of Sleep Smarter
"Sleep is more important than nutrition and exercise combined."
Mahatma Gandhi
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
Mathew Walker, PH.D, Sleep expert
“Sleep is your superpower.”
“Sleep is not a disposable luxury - It’s a non-negotiable biological necessity.”
Andrew Huberman, Stanford Neuroscientist
“The best nootropic is sleep.”
Dalai Lama
"Sleep is the best meditation."
Mind and Spirit
Rumi
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray."
Jack Kornfield
“To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.”
Dalai Lama
"Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health."
Deepak Chopra
“The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.”
Wayne Dyer
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Maya Angelou
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
Nutrition
Hippocrates
“Let thy food be thy medicine
Which means our food should be our medicine and vice versa”
Thomas Edison
“The doctors of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”
Laird Hamilton
"To me, supplements are a necessity, not a luxury. I think of them as medicine: Instead of asking a doctor to prescribe me a drug when I'm ill, I'd rather take something that can help me avoid getting sick in the first place."
Dr. Mark Hyman
“What most people don’t realize is that food is not just calories; it’s information. It actually contains messages that connect to every cell in the body.”
William Shakespeare
“Our bodies are our gardens; our wills are our gardeners.”
Benjamin Franklin
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
Laird Hamilton
“It's tempting to make nutrition feel restrictive. But rather than count calories or macros in a meal, I simply avoid most processed foods and focus on the distance between its origin and my plate. If the distance is short, I'm OK with eating it.”
Exercise
Hippocrates
“Walking is a man’s best medicine.”
Rich Roll
“When the mind is controlled and spirit aligned with purpose, the body is capable of so much more than we realize.”
Robin Sharma
“If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness.”
Peter Attia
“If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness.”
Wayne Dyer
“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.”
Jim Rohn
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
Icing on the Cake
Wim Hof
Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.
Yes, my teacher is the cold.
David Andrew Sinclair
So what we're all hoping to do, us researchers, is to develop ways to not really just extend lifespan but to keep people healthier for longer.
Andrew Weil
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
Joseph Pilates
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is health that is the real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver.
Thomas Edison
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patients in care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Plato
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.