"While technology has done so much for science and medicine and to expand global interconnectedness, it has turned an active society idle. Our thumbs log more “steps” than our feet. Everything is automated and life has become too “done for you.” The problem is that easy makes you weak. And being weak leads to unhealthy living, disease, and an early checkout."
-- Mark Divine
"You only need a few minutes a day for a journaling practice, and it is essential for growing your self-awareness. It was Socrates who said that an unexamined life is not worth living. That sounds harsh, but if you consider that without deeply examining your mental training and reconstructing new, uncommon stories to guide your behavior and goals, then you are blissfully (or painfully) ignorant that you are dancing to someone else’s tune."
-- Mark Divine
"Practice five or more minutes of box breathing daily (building up to twenty minutes). Read something inspiring as part of your morning or evening ritual, or a spot drill. Say no to new commitments and say yes to downtime for learning or helping someone out."
-- Mark Divine
"One of my aims is to get people back to the way they should be living—back to doing real exercise, eating real food, and consuming real knowledge to shape their minds (as opposed to fear, disinformation, and control propaganda). If you are suffering from some of these challenges, whether as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or simply due to the relentless societal drive toward ease and hyper-virtualization, then there is no time to waste in taking back your power right now. You will experience an immediate boost in positive energy, creative thinking, and overall health."
-- Mark Divine
"Physical activity and healthy living heal us from the inside out, strengthening the body and boosting mental health and emotional well-being. The aim is to make the body a fit vehicle for the mind to navigate the outer world effectively."
-- Mark Divine
"We can produce new brain cells and improve our mind’s clarity and focus until we die. One way to do this is to take on daily meditation, along with new learning challenges, be it chess, the ukulele, a foreign language, knitting, or by becoming a writer at the age of one hundred and six. New skills, practiced repeatedly, stimulate brain growth. But your brain also depends on cardiovascular activity to stay mentally acute and even grow. The “move it or lose it” idiom doesn’t just apply to maintaining that fit and ferocious figure."
-- Mark Divine
"The quality of your life is not about the size of your bank account, the length of your résumé, or the power you wield over others. It is a measure of your wholeness as a human and how you show up in service to others. It is expressed through the strength and balance of your physical, mental, emotional, intuitional, and spiritual domains"
-- Mark Divine
"The first step to winning in your mind is to learn to concentrate so you can focus on “thinking about your thinking.” This is a skill called metacognition. Developing this skill will not only give you control over the quality of your thoughts, but enable you to move beyond them at will."
-- Mark Divine
"All things being healthy, the brain is equipped for longevity if the body and mind are kept strong. It is part of the negative social training system that says that as people hit fifty or sixty they will start slowing down and the decline picks up steam from there. And when mental decline occurs with no diagnosis of a brain degenerative disorder, it’s chalked up to “the normal aging process”—which I believe is not normal at all."
-- Mark Divine
