'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?
Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.
Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
I believe that 'passion' is another word for energy. That's it. What energizes you? And that - we naturally have a tremendous amount of body wisdom about that, and that every one of us has a internal fuel tank that is either empty or full. And if you're empty, you feel depleted. If you're full, you feel energized.
Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.
I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.
But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.
Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.
My body is a compass - and it does not lie.
The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.
There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
