Digestive system Quote by Peter A. Levine

We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air…

— Wim Hof

“Sedentarism reduces afferent input – particularly from the sole of the foot – and promotes tension in postural (anti-gravity) muscles while leading to inhibition…

— Leon Chaitow

In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends…

— Archibald Hill

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all…

— Hippocrates

“it signals the body to increase”

— Robert Rodgers

The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

— Randolph M. Nesse

“Head is tilted slightly forward, and upward. Neck is free and relaxed Shoulders relax downward Shoulders widen Back lengthens On the outbreath especially concentrate…

— Anonymous

“When we take deep, long, slow breaths, we can actually stop the “fight or flight” portion of our nervous system (called the sympathetic nervous…

— Diamond Dallas Page

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

— Archibald Hill

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

“If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

— Joseph Pilates