{"id":3153,"date":"2013-01-21T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2013-01-21T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:21:58","slug":"body-quotes-embodiment-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/body-quotes-embodiment-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Quotes – Embodiment Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFundamentals<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cYour body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.\u201d – Gabrielle Roth<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of ones being to be experienced, explored and thereby educated\u201d\u00a0– Thomas Hanna<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA body isn’t a thing to put a brain in, a body is the part of the brain that also does movement\u201d – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMr Duffy lived a short distance form his body\u201d – James Joyce<\/em><\/p>\n

“If information were enough, Wikipedia would have solved the worlds problems” \u00a0– Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFew of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost out bodies\u201d – Ken Wilber<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEmbodiment is the way we are. It is how we do. The purpose of our bodies – specifically our posture, movement, tension and bodily awareness\u00a0patterns is not just functional in terms of what transports the head around effectively, but is a partial solidification of a set of habits we call ourselves. The way we hold the body, move around, attend and intend through the body, is a way of managing and expressing who we are. The unconscious self, and potentially the consciously created self, is visceral. Our shaping\u00a0is as much a solidification of past conditions and a way of shaping the future based on these, as an appropriate response to the present. Our physical form is our\u00a0perceptual,\u00a0cognitive,\u00a0emotional,\u00a0inspirational,\u00a0relational and behavioural lens – it is how we see, think, feel, create, relate and act. How we move is how we are, and we literally “lean” towards one life or another. Embodiment is not just inhabitation – being aware of the body (implying a separate something that is aware of the body as “it”) but being aware AS a body – the body as I. \u00a0Becoming conscious of our usually unconscious personal shaping, developing a range of options in this regard, and having the freedom of choice as a result, is what “embodiment” means to me. More poetically, when awareness and embodiment entwine, the body turns from a prison to a question – a question of spirit, of love and of meaning. More concisely, and in the fullest sense: embodiment is the subjective aspect of the body. If this is all been a bit verbose – \u201chow we do\u201d and \u201cthe way we are\u201d are as good a definitions as any.\u201d\u00a0– Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe sing before we talk, we dance before we walk\u201d\u00a0 – P. Grendrad<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe dance first. Think later. That\u2019s the natural order. – Beckett<\/em><\/p>\n


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Awareness<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHave an in-body experience\u201d – Lynne Forest<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe body is primarily mental. The mind is primarily physical.\u201d – Paul Linden<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo awareness = no choice: Awareness = freedom\u201d – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe body is anchored in the here and now while the mind travels to the past and future\u201d – The Buddha<\/em><\/p>\n

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Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMovement is what we are, not something we do\u201d – Emilie Conrad<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are human movings not human beings\u201d \u00a0– Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the only animal that can chose how to move\u201d – Dylan Newcombe<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNothing changes until something moves\u201d – Einstein<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA man should be well danced as well as well-read\u201d – ?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to move your mind, move. If you want to move someone move. If you want to move the world – move!\u201d – Eiffel<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMove how you choose to be, stand how you choose to live\u201d – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

“Move how you want to feel, move what you want to say, move how you choose to be!\u201d\u00a0–\u00a0 Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

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Self-management<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the first system we must learn to manage\u201d – Stuart Heller<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to help someone – get yourself together\u201d- Wendy Palmer<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rhythm<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the heart of the world there is no solidity, there is only dance…” – George Leonard<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTo everything there is a season…a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to reap that which has been planted\u201d – Ecclesiastes 3:2, The Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe.\u201d – George Leonard<\/em><\/p>\n

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Change<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHands are the heart’s landscape\u201d – Pope John Paul II<\/em><\/p>\n

“My particular bodily form, my particular body feeling, is testimony to my particular character, my particular way of behaving, both psychologically and physically.” – Stanley Keleman<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPower without love is brutality. Love without power is ineffective.\u201d – Paul Linden<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnatomy is destiny\u201d – Freud<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe body is a bureaucracy of habit\u201d – Heller<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAll the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.\u201d – inspired by Pemma Chodron<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reading Bodies<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSmall children and animals know your mood before you do\u201d – Wendy Palmer<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe body never lies\u201d \u201cthe body says what words cannot\u201d –\u00a0 Martha Graham<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBecome body language literate\u201d – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe move though space like we move though life\u201d – Stuart Heller<\/em><\/p>\n

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Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton\u201d – Montalembert<\/em><\/p>\n

“The body learns through exaggeration and contrast” – Wendy Palmer<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cKnowledge is only a rumour into it is in the muscle\u201d – New Guinea Proverb<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.\u201d – Mary Oliver<\/em><\/p>\n

“The purpose of today’s training is to defeat yesterday’s understanding” –\u00a0 sword master Musashi<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201dTake what you do seriously but don\u2019t take yourself seriously\u201d – Terry Ezra Shihan<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t change the mind with the mind alone, or we\u2019d all be enlightened\u201d – Wendy Palmer<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Body and The Unconscious<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBehind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty commander, an unknown wise man\u2014 he is called Self.\u00a0\u00a0He lives in your body, he is your body.\u00a0\u00a0There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.\u00a0\u201d – Friedrich Nietzsche<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOften the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with\u201d – CG Jung<\/em><\/p>\n

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Body Spirituality<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYour body is a temple of the holy spirit\u201d – Corinthians 6:19-20<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cChrist has no body but yours\u201d – St Teresa, christian mystic<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOpen thy hand and know that thou art love\u201d – Jesus<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe soul loves the body\u201d – Master Eckhart, christian mystic<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cGod is closer to man than his jugular vein\u201d – The Koran (50:16)<\/em><\/p>\n

“This body of ours is a temple of the Divine” – Katha Upanishad, Hindu tradition<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe body is anchored in the here and now while the mind travels to the past and future\u201d – The Buddha<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cRelying upon the boat of a human body, free yourself from the great river of suffering\u201d-\u00a0 Shantideva (Buddhust tradition<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cValues are visceral\u00a0\u201c – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTo feel yourself, move: to feel God, be still\u201d – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe way we treat our bodies, each other and the planet are the same\u201d – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

“The flesh of ourselves and the flesh of the world” – Richard Strozzi Heckler<\/em><\/p>\n

“The one symbol of God is man, every man. God Himself created man in His image . . . . Jewish tradition insisted that not only man’s soul but also his body is symbolic of God.” –\u00a0AJ Heschel, (Jewish tradition)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Misc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGet involved and get evolved\u201d – Dylan Newcombe<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCorporations need to be reincorporated into the corpus, this is commonsensual\u201d – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTo touch is to be touched\u201d-\u00a0 Stuart Heller<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPlay like dreams serves the function of self realisation\u201d\u00a0 – Winnecott (psychoanalyst)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are social relational animals only via the body. Minds are discerning, bodies are connecting.\u201d Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA relaxed aware bodymind is the conductor of creativity\u201d – Mark Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

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Check out some of our videos on Embodiment<\/strong><\/p>\n