“When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, and laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical and mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows.”
Buddha
“You can observe a lot by just watching” Yogi Berra
“The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labour, and little care”. Sir Philip Sidney
“In health there are neither rewards nor punishments, There are only consequences”. Robert G Ingersoll
“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you… …let it catch up.” Hafez (modified by Joseph Goldstein)
Meditation can be defined as “a family of mental training practices aimed at monitoring and regulating attention, perception, emotion and physiology” (Fox and Cahn, 2019). As with other forms of learning, meditation has the potential to change the brain (neuroplasticity). Fox and Cahn (2019) reviewed decades of meditation research in a paper entitled “Meditation and…
“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.” Viktor Frankl