Healthy Habits Quotes

“Unfortunately, sitting rests the parts of the body that don’t need much of it while working the parts that desperately do. Specifically, it disengages the lower extremities while utilizing the spine. (This is in sharp contrast to squatting, which disengages the spine while utilizing the lower extremities.) Because sitting positions the spine vertically, it provides no rest or relief from the gravitational forces that compress it. Without a periodic therapeutic reprieve through the day, the relentless load overwhelms the entire structure, joints and muscles alike. To maintain an erect seated posture, some muscle groups in the back have to continually contract. Since this requires a great deal of energy, the muscles quickly become fatigued. (That is why slumping is more comfortable: It takes less energy to maintain.) When the muscles tire, you rely on the backrest more and your muscles less. The less you rely on your muscles, the weaker and more dysfunctional they become. The weaker and more dysfunctional they become, the more you rely on the backrest. The more you rely on the backrest, the more you tend to slump. The more you slump, the more pronounced the debilitating C-shaped curvature becomes. This weakens the muscles in your back even further, which causes them to overload the joints they serve. Sitting in chairs affects even the areas seemingly at rest (particularly the hips and knees). Because sitting keeps the joints static for long periods, the muscles that serve them become fixed in a short, tight position. When at last you do get up and move, the muscles impose more stress on these joints, thereby increasing their susceptibility to wear and tear. The prolonged stasis also prevents the joints from being lubricated with nourishing synovial fluid. Once depleted, the hips and knees, like the spine, deteriorate and erode. Is it any wonder that the areas most traumatized by sitting, namely, the lower back, hips, and knees, are also the most arthritic and disabled areas of the body in the world today? The real mystery is why so few people have made the connection between prolonged sitting and the epidemic of chronic pain. In fact, they need only look to their own bodies for an abundance of evidence.”
― Joseph Weisberg, 3 Minutes to a Pain-Free Life: The Groundbreaking Program for Total Body Pain Prevention and Rapid Relief

“Microdoses of nourishing, pleasurable habits spread through the other areas of your life like rainbows at a Dolly Parton concert.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“As I like to say, you are not what you eat, you burn what you eat. At the end of the day, food is simply fuel for energy—and the more dynamic the fuel, the more energy we will have.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“You need to find the food choices that fit your lifestyle, because your food choices are your lifestyle.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Maintaining a healthy mindset is a way of living.”
― Germany Kent

“Walking around is good mind medicine.”
― Richie Norton

“Wear what makes you feel like yourself.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“At any weight or size, you can eat, move and live in ways that nourish your body, with or without weight loss.”
― Tansy Boggon, Joyful Eating: How to Break Free of Diets and Make Peace with Your Body

“If you don't eat your vegetables, you will be a vegetable.”
― Scott Ravede, Kids Word Cookbook

“The bottom line is fear makes us less resilient; it makes us more susceptible and more easily compromised.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Healthy does not mean the same thing for everyone and even on an individual basis..”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“The human body is a miraculous instrument that instinctively knows what it needs. Unfortunately, the human ego often drives us not to listen.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Pastor Wyatt still shakes hands with people. He pays no attention to the warning to switch to the elbow bump. Cole remembers learning about this while he was still in regular school. Public health officials were trying to get people to switch because touching elbows did not spread infection the way touching hands did. Cole knows there are many people who have switched, but he sees the elbow bump only when he is around strangers. The people he sees every day make fun of the elbow bump. They shake hands and they hug one another, even through Pastor Wyatt says the disease that spared them all this time around is neither the last nor the worst of its kind. Other plagues are coming, he says, smiling. And he thinks they will be here soon.”
― Sigrid Nunez, Salvation City

“A fit and lean lifestyle starts with desire”
― Hareldau Argyle King, Quotes to Habits Remember: Re-Center Your focus Take Obedient Action

“Adding a smile to your daily routine will offer you significant improvement in your life to combat anxiety, depression, stress, and self-esteem issues. Smiling more will also boost your outlook every day and have an impact on your life with healthy vibes, giving you a glowing attitude.”
― Germany Kent

“Rest is good, you feel refreshed.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

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― han78

“An hour in nature prevents a year at the hospital.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“You can't get a body you love by doing things that you hate.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Microdoses of well-being are accessible to every one of us—no matter how we got here or how off track we might be.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer

“Two healthy habits we underestimate, at our own peril, are nurturing the relationships that keep us sane—and extricating ourselves from the ones that make us feel measurably worse.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Spirit can mean whatever you want, but it is rooted in connection, in the stillness that comes when words are no longer necessary. It’s a place, a practice, or a way of being that gets you out of your head.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer

“The Habit Trip offers a deliberate method to receive the messages your body is sending and respond in kind with healing reinforcements. It’s an actionable antidote for stress and frustration.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Your body is the conduit for every satisfying experience you will ever have.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Why can’t I change?? Why???????? You yell to the heavens, momentarily forgetting that you are not the leading character in a silent film being tied ceremoniously to a train track by a scurrilous villain with a handlebar mustache.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Tiny changes can seem negligible, but when you achieve them, you gain something even more significant than the change itself. You build confidence, and when you have confidence, bigger changes follow.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Breath puts a sliver of light between impact and reflex. That’s the endgame of all that meditation-breathing stuff: interrupting knee-jerk impulsivity.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“You can’t strangle stress to death. You can try, but all that effort only increases its ferocity until it shatters your ability to contain it.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“When we trust our bodies to tell us about
hunger and fullness, exhaustion and energy, they communicate everything we could ever need to know about how to survive and how to thrive.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“Trees grow stronger in response to the wind, and their roots grow deeper. This moment in history may feel like it’s planted in the path of a category 5 hurricane. It has ripped us up, but it has also rooted us, weaving us together beneath the surface of the ground and leaving us stronger than ever. We can grieve the loss while, at the same time, falling madly in love with what it has mobilized in us: caring, grace, companionship, openness, and uncensored, outspoken truth-telling. Dying can teach us a great deal about living.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist