Christiane Northrup
As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.Collection: Love
True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.Collection: Change
Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.Collection: Powerful
Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There’s no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That’s the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body.Collection: Exercise
Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.Collection: Understanding
Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.Collection: Healing
Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value.Collection: Mean
My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."Collection: Getting Older
If you want to have world peace - peace in your family, peace in your town and peace in your own bedroom - you simply begin with whatever creates peace within yourself. This vibration will go out from you in waves, and these waves have a very positive impact on the world.Collection: Positive
Your emotions are your inner guidance system. They alone will let you know whether you are living in an environment of biochemical health or in an environment of biochemical distress. Understanding how your thoughts and your emotions affect every single hormone and cell in your body, and knowing how to change them in a way that is health-enhancing, gives you access to the most powerful and empowering health-creating secret on earth.Collection: Life
True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies.Collection: Healing
Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.Collection: Fall
Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.Collection: Drama
Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers.Collection: Teacher
When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.Collection: Baby
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.Collection: Thank You
A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.Collection: Forgiveness
No matter what you’re feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for it. If you think you’re stupid, then love yourself for feeling that way. It’s a paradox, but it works. To heal, you must be the first one to shine the light of compassion on any areas within you that you feel are unacceptable.Collection: Stupid
Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!Collection: Dream
One of the biggest gifts you can give the world is a healed life.Collection: Healing
Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?Collection: Home
Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.Collection: Thinking
Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it.Collection: Life
Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.Collection: Spiritual
My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on.Collection: Healing
I want girls to have an imprint of self-love firmly in place at a young age.Collection: Girl
I have always liked working "upstream" long before health problems hit the body.Collection: Long
Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.Collection: Self
If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.Collection: Next Week
Be joyful and experience pleasurable lives.Collection: Joyful
I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix it. I’m dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish.Collection: Teaching
I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic.Collection: Giving
The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.Collection: Girl
You have far more power to heal and be healthy than you ever dreamed possible. Your health is not outside of you. And you don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.Collection: Healthy
I want women and girls everywhere to know - deep in their bone marrow - that girls are born special, whole, and perfect, and nothing can alter that.Collection: Girl
If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.Collection: Men
Learning to love yourself should not become a life-long challenge that most of us never meet.Collection: Love You
Nothing happens randomly.Collection: Happens
I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not have the words or the experience to teach me about the miraculous cycle in my body - the cycle that is responsible for all human life on our planet and connects us to the moon and the tides. Nor did she have the words to teach me about the gift of sensual pleasure that is the birthright of all girls. If she had, my life surely would have been different. For one, I probably would not have suffered from devastating menstrual cramps for decades.Collection: Girl
We have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.Collection: Powerful
What would your life be like if your body were your friend and ally?Collection: Life Is Like
You don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.Collection: Age
Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies.Collection: Healing
Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about your health – for the better. It’s simply fabulous.Collection: Book
A woman's body image is absolutely paramount to her health.Collection: Body
As a physician who knows the importance of body image to our overall health, I wanted to have a way to inspire women to love their bodies no matter what size or shape they are. This is possible!!! And I know EXACTLY how to do this because I've done it myself and I've helped thousands of others to do the same thing. It's women's health at its most fundamental level!Collection: Inspire
I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.Collection: Pain
We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.Collection: Powerful
Self-love is part of your birthright. I'm excited to be sharing this message to "beautiful girls" everywhere, including those disguised as grandmothers.Collection: Beautiful
I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.Collection: People