Body Awareness Quotes:

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Inspiration, Self, Mind, Body Awareness

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

- Shakti Gawain

topic: Motivational, Communication, Listening, Mind Body And Spirit, Mind Body Spirit

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.44, Penguin

topic: Heal Itself, Anchors, Ego, Immune System, Body Awareness

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Healthy Living, Healthy Habits

Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within you don't already know. When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. If you haven't reached that stage yet, the practice of body awareness will bring about the deepening that is necessary.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Thinking, Practice, Feelings, Connectedness, Body Awareness

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

topic: Real, Body, Spirituality, Grounding, Sensations

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

- Jean Houston

topic: Healing, Body, Awareness, Body Awareness

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

- Bruce Lee

source: "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Learning, Martial Arts Inspirational, Meditation Mind

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

- Laozi

topic: Writing, Athlete, Games, Superior Intelligence, Good Athlete

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Inspiring, Sacred, Body, Your Body, Human Body

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Keys, Spiritual Awareness, Deep Life

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

- William Blake

source: William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Life, Men, Soul, Spiritual Awareness, Mind Body And Soul

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Peace, Healing, Body, Soul Healing, Body Awareness

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

- Sivananda

topic: Meditation, Consciousness, Awareness, Objectification, Meditation Life

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Water, Flow, Martial Arts Inspirational, Meditation Mind

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Water, Mind, Empty, Dojo, Martial Arts Inspirational

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

- Voltaire

topic: Yoga, Thinking, Knowing, Objectification, Meditation Life

I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

- Deepak Chopra

source: Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. November 22, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Keys, Mind, Body Awareness

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of the body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Mean, Self, Ecosystems, Body Awareness

Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.

- Kyle Shewfelt

topic: Yoga, Tools, Prevention, Body Awareness

Sexuality, I think, is a little bit different, for me, than it is for most people, in that there's almost no body awareness whatsoever. It's just light, but that's how everything is for me.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Thinking, Light, People, Body Awareness

Where I'm like,"no, I won't have that piece of bread, I'll have the veg." There's a different approach mentally that you have when you're in a safe space. Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Space, Different, Pieces, Different Approach, Safe Space