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“My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Moving Quotes
#Creativity Quotes
#Reflection Quotes
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“Standing is harder than moving.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Inspirational Life Quotes
#Moving Quotes
#Harder Quotes
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“A brain without a body could not think.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
Source : Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.28, North Atlantic Books
#Thinking Quotes
#Brain Quotes
#Body Quotes
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“In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Order Quotes
#Breathing Quotes
#Differences Quotes
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“Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Emotional Quotes
#Breathing Quotes
#Effort Quotes
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“In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Order Quotes
#Action Quotes
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“Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Patterns Quotes
#Belief Quotes
#Behavior Quotes
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“People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action...”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Communication Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
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“I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. A brain without a body could not think.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
Source : Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.28, North Atlantic Books
#Believe Quotes
#Reality Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
Source : Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.11, North Atlantic Books
#Quality Quotes
#Movement Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
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“No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
Source : Moshé Feldenkrais, Elizabeth Beringer (2010). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshé Freldenkrais”, North Atlantic Books
#Support Quotes
#Looks Quotes
#Matter Quotes
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“There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create of the situation you find yourself in leads to paralysis and ineffectual behaviour, then throw those damn words away and find yourself a new set. There is always some useful description of the world that empowers and gives you choices and your task, if you are going to use words at all, is to find that set of words.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Real Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Empowering Quotes
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“Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Life Quotes
#Body Quotes
#Muscles Quotes
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“We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.”
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Moshe Feldenkrais
#Philosophy Quotes
#Medicine Quotes
#Envy Quotes
