Writing Through Your Body
the body knows: the understanding that it belongs to the world, expresses the world, is held by the world and shares in all that happens to the world.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
what the body most deeply feels is the present.
Philip Shepherd • Deep Fitness: The Mindful, Science-Based Strength-Training Method to Transform Your Well-Being in Just 30 Minutes a Week
Body and mind are not two separate entities. What happens in the body will have an effect on the mind and vice versa. Mind relies on the body to manifest, and body relies on mind in order to be alive, in order to be possible.
Jason DeAntonis • How to Love (Mindful Essentials)
My life’s work has taught me that the ability to notice, experience, and tolerate the sensations in the body that accompany the thoughts in the mind is critical to empowering wholeness and well-being. We dwell so much in our thoughts, our interpretations of our experiences, our strivings, and our expectations that we register very little of what is
... See moreNan Wise • Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life
As you increasingly honor the body’s sensations, you increasingly understand them to constitute a language of thought that is distinct from how the head knows. What the body knows is based on a patient clarity that enables you to act from the whole of your being. But that knowing is inaccessible—and may as well not exist—when it’s been eclipsed by
... See morePhilip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
body-based, concrete referents that take the edge off the sensation that you are looking blindly into empty air for information.