“Meanwhile, the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) arises from different midbrain/brain-stem nuclei that project down the spine to the body. In contrast to… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The bodily experience we have taken in from [other people that our body has internalized as 'imported parts'] will affect our muscles,… — Bonnie Badenoch Copy Share Image
“Really, how much of one’s life is made up of these private incidents; how submerged one is. You know, for example, that… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body… — K. Pattabhi Jois Copy Share Image
Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. .… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
“If we understand many more things than other people, we owe it to our nervous system which is far more disturbed. One… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it,… — Mark T Bertolini Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By protecting your nervous system and keeping you focused, laughter and play offer you opportunities to thrive even in inhospitable environments.” — Jeanne Segal Copy Share Image
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. — George Lois Copy Share Image
The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“We tend to think of coolness as a pose that you strike with a pair of sunglasses, a nonchalant attitude, and drink… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been… — R. U. Sirius Copy Share Image
“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“And then to Leo’s surprise, Catherine smiled at him. A sweet, natural, brilliant smile, the first she had ever given him. Leo… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image