One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all.<\/p>\n

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, doubt, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.<\/p>\n

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,empathy, generosity, forgiveness, truth, compassion and faith.”<\/p>\n

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?”<\/p>\n

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thoughts can become things. The power of your thoughts can go in either direction. The on-going collection of quotes below is intended to inspire you along your life’s journey. A healthy mindset<\/span><\/a><\/span> of aligned thoughts, actions, and habits is one of the best tools to manage stress<\/span><\/a><\/span>. Thoughts can greatly influence your reality, and they are probably your number one asset when properly utilized. Many diet and exercise programs assume that formulating good eating habits and getting in better shape are all you need, but that only works in the short term. For true health and performance to be realized it\u2019s essential to practice a mindset that is authentic to your values and considers the process just as important as the outcome goals. For long-term success, it\u2019s important to create a practice that will help guide you through the process and keep you motivated toward a big-picture lifestyle change.<\/p>\n

To optimize health and performance for every individual, it is essential four key areas are exercised in a balanced manner: The Principles of Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition\/Hydration, and Movement. These elements operate interdependently and ultimately have a very powerful influence that may help with optimal gene expression. Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition\/Hydration, and Movement<\/b> alone aren\u2019t enough. But together, and incorporated into daily habits, balancing these four fundamentals serve as a Force Multiplier<\/span><\/a><\/span> to help you succeed now\u2014and for life to Feel, Move, and Perform Better. For further assistance see UpRight Movement\u2019s Regeneration Guidelines<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Click here to learn about the UpRight Movement Principles<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Mindset:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cAs to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do\u00a0<\/span>with your one wild and precious life?”<\/p>\n
Mary Oliver<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Plato<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”<\/p>\n
Sir Edmund Hillary
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“My life is a gift from the Creator. What I do with it is my gift to the Creator.”<\/p>\n
Billy Mills, Running Strong<\/a>
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“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”<\/span><\/p>\n
Carl Jung
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“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.”<\/span><\/p>\n
Jonas Salk
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\u201cLove your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long, and its purpose in the service of your people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Chief Tecumseh
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“<\/span>Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.<\/span>“<\/p>\n
Jack Kerouac
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Out of the night that covers me,
\nBlack as the Pit from pole to pole,
\nI thank whatever gods may be
\nFor my unconquerable soul. <\/span><\/p>\n
In the fell clutch of circumstance
\nI have not winced nor cried aloud.
\nUnder the bludgeonings of chance
\nMy head is bloody, but unbowed.<\/p>\n
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
\nLooms but the Horror of the shade,
\nAnd yet the menace of the years
\nFinds, and shall find, me unafraid.<\/p>\n
It matters not how strait the gate,
\nHow charged with punishments the scroll,
\nI am the master of my fate:
\nI am the captain of my soul.<\/p>\n
Invictus, William Ernest Henley
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“If the people are sick, I too am sick, only when everyone is healthy will I too be healthy.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Vimalakirti, 6th to 5th century BC<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Hopi<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Recovery:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cSleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Thomas Dekker<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cLook to the season when choosing your cure.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n
Hippocrates<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
John Muir<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.”<\/p>\n
Paracelsus<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cExcessive stress occurs when the demands made on an organism exceed that organisms reasonable capacity to fulfill them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hans Selye
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\u201cThe flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cPerformance is limited by recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Verstegen, Founder and President of EXOS<\/a>
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“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”<\/span><\/p>\n
Homer, The Odyssey
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\u201cTo do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Hippocrates<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Ernest Hemingway
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“Live in each season as it passes; breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Henry David Thoreau
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“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Irish Proverb
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Nutrition\/Hydration:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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“Eating is an agricultural act<\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\n
Wendell Berry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“When you rely on artificial manures (petroleum based fertilizers) to make artificial soil, then you grow artificial plants which make artificial animals which make artificial people who can only be kept alive with artificials.” (pharmaceutical drugs).<\/span><\/p>\n
Sir Albert Howard, English Botanist 1940<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cYou, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Joel Salatin (Farmer) Polyface Farms<\/span><\/a>, Food Choice Advocate, Dream-Doer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cFood is far more than fuel; it’s a language that programs every function of your cells.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catherine Shanahan, MD, Deep Nutrition<\/a>
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\u201cLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hippocrates
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\u201cGood broth will resurrect the dead.”<\/p>\n
South American Proverb
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\u201cDrink half your bodyweight in pounds in ounces of water daily. The best solution for pollution is dilution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Paul Chek, C.H.E.K Institute<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!”<\/p>\n
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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\u201cDon\u2019t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn\u2019t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn\u2019t recognize as food.. stay away from these.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Michael Pollan<\/a>
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“He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Chinese Proverb
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“Touch not the poisonous firewater that makes wise men turn to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.”
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Chief Tecumseh
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\u201cWater, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Napoleon<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Movement:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cWhat I\u2019m after isn\u2019t flexible bodies but flexible brains. What I\u2019m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Moshe Feldenkrais<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Make the impossible<\/span>, <\/span>possible<\/span>; the <\/span>possible<\/span>, easy; and the easy, elegant.”<\/span><\/p>\n
Moshe Feldenkrais<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance<\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\n
Confucius<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Walking is man’s best medicine.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Hippocrates<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe loads we experience in today\u2019s world differ hugely from the loads people experienced a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand years ago. Yet we blithely accept that our health issues\u2014which so many of us share\u2014are genetic. Genetic, a term we\u2019ve internally defined as beyond our control. Whether out of convenience or ignorance, we have failed to address the habitat in which our genes dwell, and the impact of the way we move on the state of our health.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cFirst move well, then move often.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gray Cook, Functional Movement Systems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Behavior + Environment + Genes = Fitness<\/strong><\/p>\n
“Fitness is the ability to consistently thrive and interact within your environment and any of its demands, toward optimal gene-expression.”<\/p>\n
Corey Jung, Founder and Performance Specialist of UpRight Movement<\/a>
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“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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\u201cAll truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Friedrich Nietzsche
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\u201cI hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
William James
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\u201cPhysical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
John F. Kennedy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/h3>\nRecovery:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\n\n\u201cSleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThomas Dekker<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n

Recovery:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\n\n\u201cSleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThomas Dekker<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n

<\/h3>\nNutrition\/Hydration:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\n\n“Eating is an agricultural act<\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\nWendell Berry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n

Nutrition\/Hydration:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\n\n“Eating is an agricultural act<\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\nWendell Berry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n\n\n“Touch not the poisonous firewater that makes wise men turn to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.”\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nChief Tecumseh\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/h3>\n\n\n“Touch not the poisonous firewater that makes wise men turn to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.”\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nChief Tecumseh\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Movement:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n\n\n\u201cWhat I\u2019m after isn\u2019t flexible bodies but flexible brains. What I\u2019m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMoshe Feldenkrais<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n