Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the… — Leslie Mann Copy Share Image
LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“Those who experience symptoms complain of abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, and intestinal distress. Some people, however, don’t experience obvious signs of… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because… — Maxwell Maltz 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
“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
“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
“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
Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To become happier, wiser, and more loving, sometimes you have to swim against ancient currents within your nervous system. For example, in… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Relaxing the shoulders is vital for relaxation in general. However, owing to the effects of gravity, relaxation is problematic unless we let… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
“Gradually the idea for a book began to take shape. It was to be a wildly ambitious and intolerant work, a kind… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion known to man, something deeply inscribed in our nervous system and subconscious. Over time, however,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Living in survival entails living in stress and functioning as a materialist, believing that the outer world is more real than the… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
“One of the most studied organisms in this context is the tiny polyp Hydra, which possesses only a hundred thousand cells. Its… — D.F. Swaab Copy Share Image
“Our immune system does not exist in isolation from daily experience. For example, the immune defences that normally function in healthy young… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The experience of stress has three components. The first is the event, physical or emotional, that the organism interprets as threatening. This… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly. In the psychopathic… — William James Copy Share Image
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“The more you practice sitting with the discomfort, the more you gently (and repeatedly) redirect your cast toward something new, the more… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
“Pausing to implement breathwork throughout the day, places you in a more receptive state of flow. Your mind becomes clearer and your… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
“The close connection of the central nucleus to elements of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) provides the amygdala with a great deal… — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way:… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
“The role of the SNS is to create the fight-or-flight response, an effect that is balanced by the influences of the parasympathetic… — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
“The nervous system consumes more glucose than most other parts of the body, and effortful mental activity appears to be especially expensive… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image