Health & Well-Being

You can learn to change the way you think about things, and you can also change your basic values and beliefs. And when you do, you will often experience profound and lasting changes in your mood, outlook, and productivity.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function...exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health.

The body keeps the score: If the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching emotions, in autoimmune disorders and skeletal/muscular problems, and if mind/brain/visceral communication is the royal road to emotion regulation, this demands a radical shift in our therapeutic approach.

Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing; not within our power are our body, our property, reputation, office, and, in a word, whatever is not of our own doing.

People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them.

If you think of your inner voice as an inner tormentor, then it's natural to fantasize about permanently muting it.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Addressing the circadian clock is more than a diet. In fact, it's not a diet at all. It's a lifestyle.

Stress is what arises when something you care about is at stake.

The voice in my head can be a total asshole.

What matters, in other words, isn't what we feel but how we respond to those feelings.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you'd be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled - have you no shame in that?

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it is the realization that we can.

Perfectionism is the unparalleled defense for emotionally abandoned children. The existential unattainability of perfection saves the child from giving up, unless or until scant success forces retreat into dissociative depression.

Make exercise necessary and fun. Do mostly cardio, but also some weights. Some is better than none. Keep it up as you age.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.

Emotions are tunnels. If you go all the way through them, you get to the light at the end. Exhaustion happens when we get stuck in the tunnel.

Courage is not an absence of fear; courage is fear walking.

Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy.

The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future.

Særligt for træer findes aldring faktisk slet ikke.

It is not weakness. It is biology being exploited.

You don't have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.

The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation.

Man kan ikke styre sine tanker, men man kan styre, om man giver dem opmærksomhed.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Today's comfort is tomorrow's discomfort. This leads to a new level of what's considered comfortable.

The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle.

Exercise is the single most important thing anyone can do to improve brain function and resiliency to disease.

We are hyper-vigilant about everything we put into our body, and we are proud of this. We Instagram how proud we are of this, and we follow Goop and Well+Good, and we drop 40 bucks on an exercise class because there are healing crystals in the floor. And we drink fucking rocket fuel.

Happiness comes from between.

Diet is Batman and exercise is Robin.

No one is coming to save you. If I don't do something, nothing is going to change.

To control alcohol you have to cease seeing it as something enjoyable. If you no longer want it you have power over it rather than vice versa.

The only reason to study philosophy is to become a better person.

We need to think with the perspective of 'Whose task is this?' and continually separate one's own tasks from other people's tasks.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

The impediment to action becomes part of the action; the obstacle in our way becomes the way forward.

To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.

Fokusér på det, du kan kontrollere

We are not sick because we have diseases. We have diseases because we are sick.

Dopamine isn't the pleasure molecule, after all. It's the anticipation molecule.

Society expects us to regularly use an addictive drug without becoming addicted to it. Alcohol is the only drug where stopping makes you look weak. It's truly bizarre.

Curiosity is the key that opens the lock of the worry habit.

The after is the before for the next during.

I had developed a unifying theory for the cause of all mental illnesses. I call it the theory of brain energy.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Alcohol is the only drug on earth you have to justify NOT taking.

We have no free will at all.

Det har ingen værdi at være sig selv, men det har til gengæld værdi at gøre sin pligt over for sine medmennesker.

A journey of a thousand miles begins from under the feet.

The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right. And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." (Blaise Pascal)

It's not about eating less. It's about eating smarter.

Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience, rather than about things.

Beliefs don't just reflect reality. Beliefs bend reality.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are - none of it will matter unless we're breathing correctly.

There is no biological law that says we must age.

Det handler mindre om, hvad man oplever, end hvordan man oplever det.

Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.

The only way to move from a life of misery to a life of meaning is to find the courage to face your darkest hours and embrace them, not run from them.

The belief that an individual can make a difference is the first step. The next is understanding that you can be that person.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Flourishing isn't something we find, it's something we create.

You are just one action, one decision away from mattering again.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you think you're done, you're only at forty percent of what your body is capable of doing. That's just the limit that we put on ourselves.

Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for.

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.