There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
When you're using your upper body to live, you get to know how to move every muscle.
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.
All my family is average-sized, apart from me. I didn't really think about my size until I got older, a few years before high school. It had never really fazed me that much.
I found the secret of life to be body placement.
Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.
I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.
Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.
Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.
I think yoga gives me awareness not just about my body from the outside but also about my internal organs. I feel it's very important because it teaches you self-realization of your body.
We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
Things can be fast paced in the ring but I was very particular in knowing to be in the right time at the right place.
You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.
Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
