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Quotes About Body

If, however, we suppress or repress our feelings, our bodies typically armor and tighten, especially along the alimentary canal.
~ Unknown
SOMATIC HEALING
~ Unknown
The body has been designed to renew itself through continuous self-correction. These same principles also apply to the healing of psyche, spirit, and soul.
~ Peter A. Levine
Physicians and mental health workers today don't speak of retrieving souls, but they are faced with a similar task—restoring wholeness to an organism that has been fragmented by trauma. Shamanistic concepts and procedures treat trauma by uniting lost soul and body in the presence of community. This approach is alien to the technological mind. However, these procedures do seem to succeed where conventional Western approaches fail.
~ Peter A. Levine
When we respond to a life-threatening situation, hyperarousal is initially accompanied by constriction in our bodies and a narrowing of perceptions. Our nervous system acts to ensure that all our efforts can be maximally focused on the threat ...
~ Peter A. Levine
The answer lies in the particular type of spontaneous shaking, trembling, and breathing that I described earlier.
~ Peter A. Levine
I have worked to develop a safe, gentle, and effective way for people to heal from trauma. It works by understanding that trauma is primarily physiological. Trauma is something that happens initially to our bodies and our instincts. Only then do its effects spread to our minds, emotions, and spirits.
~ Peter A. Levine
The key to completing this uncompleted immobility response lies in uncoupling our fear from the response itself. This allows the stuck energy to be freed up for use wherever it is needed within the body.
~ Peter A. Levine
Examples of signs include a deep, relaxed, spontaneous breath, the cessation of crying or trembling, a stretch, a yawn, a smile or the making of eye contact.
~ Peter A. Levine
It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
~ Peter Ackroyd
It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
~ Peter Andre
The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of individuals, but is a corporate body. It is not just about personal salvation, but a group of people, the people of God, who are bound to one another and to the faithful through the generations. (page 263)
~ Unknown
I've only been out a few days. I'd forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There's barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up. I've had to run an expanded mentality in the habitat's RI systems just to keep thinking properly; and that hardware isn't exactly young and frisky any more.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Kysandra turned to the third victim. "Prime Minister?" she said in surprise. "No, I stole his body. Don't worry about this; everything is backed up. I'll re-life later. Just get us back…Oh, bollocks, here we go again." His chest juddered as blood gushed out of his mouth; then his body went limp.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.
~ Peter Gabriel
Skriv, sa hon. "Din kropp betyder mer för mig än allt randigt fläsk som finns på Smithfield Charkuterimarknad.
~ Peter Høeg
The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.
~ Peter Høeg
Says Freud: We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do that without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally, from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other. Morality
~ Peter J. Gomes
because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
~ Exodus 22:27
the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.
~ Leviticus 13:13
This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.
~ Leviticus 15:3
Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
~ Leviticus 15:7
When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
~ Leviticus 15:16
You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
~ Leviticus 19:28