Body Awareness Quotes

“Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.”
― Denise Riley, Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History

“Body practice is the root of spiritual practice. When we calm the body, the mind can expand without limit.”
― Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing

“But she has five years to find Him and marry him and then another five years to have a baby, maybe two if she likes the first one. She's not in a rush. Not yet. She'll just keep swinging left, keep looking nice when she goes out, keep accepting invitations to social events, keep positive, keep slim, keep herself together, keep going.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

“It could make you slightly psychotic if you really focused on the idea that girls had holes under their clothes. Holes that suggested, in the absence they pointed out, that they could be filled, and that you could do the filling.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“Like everything else in life, we should eat consciously. We should learn to listen to our body about what to eat and how much – not too much, not too little, the foods which will not strain or poison our system. If the channel of communication is clear between our body and mind, it will tell us what we need for our body type, age, and level of activity while taking into account any health issues or changed circumstances which affect our metabolism. We can still treat ourselves with things we love, but we should do so in honest moderation and with awareness. Eating what is right for our individual system keeps our body healthy and active, and our mind awake and alert.”
― Donna Goddard, Touched by Love

“If we would like a long and productive life, we must take special care of the vehicle God gave us to move around in while we are here. Abuse, neglect, and lack of maintenance will come back to repay us with pain, lethargy, dysfunction, and, of course, a shorter-than-possible lifespan. Further, from a spiritual perspective, it is difficult for us to pay attention to our consciousness-evolution if we are plagued with physical discomfort. When the body is comfortable and silent, we can more easily put our attention on higher pursuits.”
― Donna Goddard, Touched by Love

“Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

“If we practice moving toward our body’s distress, however—meaning noticing our body’s reactions, taking them seriously, and working with our body, not against it—we give ourselves a better chance of mitigating or reducing distress or harm to ourselves or those who love us.”
― Jamila Dawson, With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships

“Without the lower chakras, all our work in the more spiritual and intuitive centres would be fraught with difficulties. Spiritual students should not go too deeply into the path without very strong and stable lower energy centres.”
― Donna Goddard

“I cannot name one hundredth of the components of my body. I perceive only my bones that ache. I made a series of pictures based on things that came out of my body or grew on it: whiskers, hair, nails, semen, urine, shit, saliva, mucus, tears, sweat, pus, blood.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

“[Why waste energy with wasted movements?]
Very commonly, tightening and furrowing the brow while concentrating... Is the brain a muscle that works better by tensing the skull?”
― Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing