Hi, I agree with you and with "notsoperfectlife"

What you actually call "quality", I think I would call it "self-control" and it's one of the more difficult things to achieve in life, since it has to do with being able to think and feel the right thing at the right time.

Self-control is an attitude towards life and as you said, that includes diet, exercise, etc. I believe however, it is also very important to learn and master physical self-relaxation. The control of the big muscle groups is an important factor to limit the damage that the excess of stress can cause to our body.

It is very simple. If you think it, when you are stressed (at the mind level I mean), the muscles tends to get tense and that accumulation of tension makes us worse and worse as the hours go by if we do not release it; in this case the mind affects the body, but if you learn to manage that muscle tension, the effect is reversed and the mind relaxes too, with the consequent benefits in our daily activities.
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