Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way Quotes

“It is part of human nature that without intervention we will repeatedly return to the same solutions and the same habits.”
― Nancy Liebler, Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda

“To undo depression we must create its opposite: vitality. Happiness is the byproduct of a healthy physiology”
― Nancy Liebler, Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda

“You literally are what you eat. However, let us define the word eat as the process of ingesting and digesting everything we consume through our body, mind, and spirit. If our physical, mental, or emotional digestive ability becomes less than optimal, we can become overwhelmed with undigested matter, causing a disruption in any given aspect of our being.”
― Nancy Liebler, Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda

“There exists an internal healing intelligence that guides the healing of wounds. This intelligence senses the pain brought on by a cut on your finger and immediately mobilizes a series of reactions to stop the bleeding, form a scab, and induce the regeneration of skin. Elegantly and effortlessly, this process has a 100 percent rate of success, assuming it is not interrupted. It must be successful, for your life depends on it. What if there existed a way to unleash your innate healing intelligence to cure depression?”
― Nancy Liebler, Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda

“Holism goes deeper than the eye can see. Human beings are more than the mortal packaging they inhabit. We are a creation of our consciousness. In fact, in a deeper reality, an energetic pattern of vibration underlies the totality of our being—body, mind, and spirit. From a holistic perspective, matter is energy and energy is matter, so there is no separation between body (matter) and mind (energy). Where attention goes, matter flows, it’s been said. The implication of this philosophy is tremendous: it implies that we can use our consciousness to create our worldview, our mind, and our body—and to heal. We do this by enlisting a consciousness-based health program based on the ancient science of Ayurveda.”
― Nancy Liebler, Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda

“For this—the project of restructuring body, mind, and spirit—we need practical techniques that help us to build ourselves up from the inside out. To fix a crumbling house, the builder starts at the foundation, not the roof. We must do the same.”
― Nancy Liebler, Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda

“PNI proposes that we can no longer consider the mind as one thing and the body as another, or mental health as separate from physical health. This is new information for us Westerners, who are often inclined to believe that if we are depressed or anxious we should just “snap out of it.” That”
― Nancy Liebler, Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness with Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda