Jean Houston Quotes

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.

I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.

I'm aware of my body.

Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Body experience... is the centre of creation.

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Something about being a dancer connects you to your physical body. It's primal, earthy, sexual energy by nature. You feel your body in a certain way. Channing is very much the same way. He's very in tune with that.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.

Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.