Quotes About Body

2. A brain cannot think without motor function. Wrote Feldenkrais, "My fundamental contention is that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality, that these entities are not related to each other in one fashion or another, but are an inseparable whole. To put this more clearly: I contend that a brain could not think without motor functions.

Not only does the brain send signals to the body to influence it; the body sends signals to the brain to affect it as well, and thus there is constant, two-way communication between them. The body abounds with neurons, the gut alone having 100 million. Only in anatomy textbooks is the brain isolated from the body and confined to the head.

Thus he might start working on a part of the body farthest from where the pupil thought the problem was, often on the opposite side. He might begin to gently move a toe, far from a painful upper body part. If he felt a restriction, he would never force it. What he discovered was that the brain would sense this relaxation in the toe, and the person would become immersed in that image of relaxed movement, which would soon generalize, so that that entire side of the body relaxed.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

What is always speaking silently is the body.

The death instinct is reconciled with the life instinct only in a life which is not repressed, which leaves no "unlived lines" in the human body, the death instinct then being affirmed in a body which is willing to die.

Small breasts are best for the long haul.

He was mixing up friendship with acts and atmospheres from the deluded matrix the boys had lived in for a heartbeat in the seventies. She thought, I am your friend, you idiot, and I let you into my perfect body, for Christ's sake.

In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

Siva tvar sadržava ponajprije masno?u; u slu?aju pretjeranog mršavljenja mozak trpi posljedice. Što se doga?a u suprotnom slu?aju? Deblja li se i mozak ili jednostavno postane masniji? I ako je odgovor potvrdan, kako to utje?e na misli? Churchillova ili Hitchcockova inteligencija sigurno nije patila zbog pretilosti vlasnika, ali povla?enje tolike težine zasigurno na ovaj ili onaj na?in utje?e na psihu.

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Our body is a moulded river

La donna è il nutrimento corporale più elevato.

S? fie oare corpul ?i sufletul în vreun fel anume separate - ?i nu este semn de sl?biciune faptul c? afec?iunea unuia este totodat? ?i afec?iunea celuilalt - f?r? niciun amestec al voin?ei?

Ac? bir ya?ant?dan sonra insan, ancak bedenine eziyet ederek günlerini sürdürebiliyor.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.

Your body said one thing. Your words said another." It moved a sensory arm to the back of his neck, looping one coil loosely around his neck. "This is the position," it said. "I'll stop now if you like.

A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.

intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial.

A sudden presence like a burst of song, like the wind singing in a burning building, a glance that holds the world and all its seas and mountains dangling in the air, body of light filtered through an agate, thighs of light, belly of light, the bays, the solar rock, cloud-colored body, color of a brisk and leaping day, the hour sparkles and has a body, the world is visible through your body, transparent through your transparency,

maybe in our bodies there's a whole world of mythology? Maybe there exists some sort of reflection of the great and the small, the human body joining within itself everything with everything - stories and heroes, gods and animals, the order of plants and the harmony of minerals?