Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the mystery of balance. Far from being simply the absence of disease, health is a dynamic and harmonious equilibrium of all the elements and forces making up and surrounding a human being.

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.