Herbert Benson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.
-- Herbert Benson

#Healing #Health #People
Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.
-- Herbert Benson

#Pain #Memories #Stress
If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.
-- Herbert Benson

#Inspirational #People #Mind
The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.
-- Herbert Benson

#Mind #Tasks #Wander
The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body.
-- Herbert Benson

#Thinking #Brain #Mind
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
-- Herbert Benson

#Events #Way #Complexity
The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.
-- Herbert Benson

#Stress #Fighting #Emotional

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.
Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.
There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

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