“No illness which can be treated by the diet should be treated by any other means.” - Moses Maimonides
Maimonides on Diet
Stress Management - Chinese Proverb
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” - Chinese Proverb
First Axiom of Communication
"You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate."
- Paul Watzlawick
Henry Ward Beecher - Will to Health
“To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.” - Henry Ward Beecher
Plato on Bodymind Nondualism
“The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.” - Plato
Thoreau on Diet
“A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.” - Henry David Thoreau
Hippocrates on Psychosomatic Illness
“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.” - Hippocrates
Voltaire
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” - Voltaire
Inspiration from William James
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”
-William James
The Bible on Positive Thinking
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.” - Proverbs 17:22