embodiment

“Exercising any new behavior requires awareness, activating new neural pathways, and reorganizing the shape and functioning of our bodies. Stabilizing it requires a biological process of establishing new default patterns in our neurological and muscular systems.”

—Doug Sillsbee, Presence Based Coaching

“The mind unanchored in the body is always trying to be something or somebody, the mind is always attempting to control the body: the body exists in its own form of freedom, always under the gravitational influence of something far beyond the mind's understanding.”

—David Whyte, Constellations II

“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James

Do I live my life according to my own deepest truths, or in order to fulfill someone else’s expectations? How much of what I have believed and done is actually my own and how much has been in service to a self-image I originally created in the belief it was necessary to please my parents?

Gabor Maté

Emotional competence requires • the capacity to feel our emotions, so that we are aware when we are experiencing stress; • the ability to express our emotions effectively and thereby to assert our needs and to maintain the integrity of our emotional boundaries; • the facility to distinguish between psychological reactions that are pertinent to the ... See more

Cultivate Compassion with the GRACE Method

If you want to cultivate compassionate interactions, try Joan Halifax's GRACE Method (see more on this new quotes page):

· Gathering attention: How do we get really grounded? How do we focus? How do we get really present? By gathering our attention—usually through the medium of the body.

· Recalling intent... See more

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