The Wellness Sense: A Practical Guide to Your Physical and Emotional Health Based on Ayurvedic and Yogic Wisdom

by Om Swami

If you can either change your perspective or your response towards what you find disturbing, ninety per cent of the job is done.

Any thought that disturbs your mental balance is a negative thought even if it is about God.

The Sanskrit word for health is svasthya; it means self-dependence or a sound state of the body and mind.

Your physical health is almost entirely dependent on how your body accepts and processes food, which in turn is affected by your mental and emotional state.

Einstein used to say, ‘It’s not that I’m smarter, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.’

Everything outside your body is a part of the macrocosm. You are an exact replica of that macrocosm.

One of the most outstanding aspects of Ayurveda is its teaching that nothing is absolute. The utility, value and effect of anything is relative.

Passion, when tamed and harnessed, brings out the extraordinary in an individual.

knowledge (jnana), scientific knowledge (vijnana), restraint (samyam), mindfulness (smriti) and concentration (ekagrata) as the antidote and treatment for mental afflictions caused by imbalanced mental humours.

Ayurveda and yogic texts state that the nature of our food is inseparable from our own nature.

it is better to have a calm mind free of desires than to have a restless mind full of unfulfilled ones, because non-fulfilment of desires leads to depression and sadness.