Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.

At different times in your life, your body needs different things.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.

You have to eat a variety of different foods to get all the nutrients your body needs to keep you healthy. By eating the same thing day after day you won't get these protective nutrients.