Parasympathetic Response Quotes & Sayings

We have become a nation incapable of living within our
means. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning a
home is not and never was intended to be a right. It is a reward for
working hard and saving up enough money to not only purchase a
property, but to maintain and improve it. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels ... down to earth. — Brian Chippendale

To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love. — Debasish Mridha

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear. — Jean Racine

With experience as their guiding light, Christian monks and nuns could, for example, come together with Sufis and Yogis to pray and meditate, then discuss their experiences by talking about how silence and inner peace have changed their lives, instead of talking about the content of their prayers or focusing on theology. Hindus, Christians, and Muslims, who tread the path of goodness, could come together and do good works. Doing good side by side would show them that they are not as different as previously thought and that their various beliefs can lead to similar outcomes. — Gudjon Bergmann

[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality ... (20) — Ravi Ravindra

At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a mystery. Some possibility that included her
separate from her present life and without its limitations. A secret. Riding in the car with her father, she would look out at other cars full of people she'd never seen, any one of whom she might someday meet and love, and would feel the world holding her making its secret plans. — Jennifer Egan

Deep and regular breathing, also referred to as diaphragmatic breathing, helps to quiet the sympathetic nervous system and allows the parasympathetic nervous system - which governs our sense of hunger and satiety, the relaxation response, and many aspects of healthy organ function - to become more dominant. — Jocelyn K. Glei

His incredible memory did not desert him in this phase of his life. Mentally he was still a giant who overshadowed all around him. — Heinz Linge

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated. — Antonin Scalia

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up. — Samuel Goldwyn

During the time of stress, the "fight-or-flight" response is on and the self-repair mechanism is disabled. It is then when we say that the immunity of the body goes down and the body is exposed to the risk for disease. Meditation activates relaxation, when the sympathetic nervous system is turned off and the parasympathetic nervous system is turned on, and natural healing starts. — Annie Wilson