Each treatment begins
with body point stimulation through acupuncture, followed by a winter body wrap and a massage to build body energy.
His eyes remain glued to the prey, and he may pause and freeze in position
with his body pointed at the target.
Not exact matches
The whole
point of the therapy is to expand both
body and mind, so don't be afraid to get your feet wet
with a range of ideas.
In a write - up by
Body Fat Analyzer, the writer
pointed out that the scale comes
with a five - year warranty and quality customer service.
Each of these ideas has its own
body of adherents — management thinkers pushing a particular
point of view, and practising executives experimenting
with a different way of working.
A study in the journal «PLOS One» found a detectable level was associated
with a 0.9 -
point increase in
body mass index (BMI).
Health experts
point to a huge
body of research showing that the best way to manage costs effectively is to provide great primary care for people
with chronic diseases.
«One female case study cut her
body fat 3 percentage
points in roughly four weeks
with only five minutes of kettlebell swings three times a week,» he says.
While the
points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation
with compromised
bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.
While I personally feel that rights of the fetus to live eventually override the mother's right to voluntarily terminate, that
point is near the end of pregnancy and I'm still hesitant to tell someone what to do
with their own
body.
During the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, we non-Catholics arguing moral theology could
point to learned and compelling arguments coming out of Rome and say, in effect, «The oldest and largest part of the
Body of Christ agrees
with us, and it does so
with remarkable sophistication.»
And, now that I've said that, I will
point out that this has absolutely nothing to do
with the abortion question, and is merely a de-railment of the discussion of a woman's right to decide what takes place in her
body.
A Resurrection of his physical
body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would
point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up
with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).
John Cobb makes this
point and adds that total identification
with our
bodies becomes impossible when they are sick, maimed, aging, enslaved, or dying.
No matter the style of evangelism, crusade, one on one, or whatever, non of it has much lasting value unless it
points to a deeper relationship
with Christ, and leads to a relationship
with His
body in this world, the church.
One of the primary
points of I Corinthians 15 is that whenever God creates any living thing, he provides it
with a
body appropriate to its life.
It was the
body which linked him
with the animals; it was made of similar flesh and bone, and lived only for the limited period between birth and death, at which
point the
body fell into decay.
I am not inclined to that view; I tend to agree
with N.T. Wright that the vision
points to a moment when the new creation is made «not ex nihilo, but ex vetere, not out of nothing, but out of the old one, the existing one,» just as the resurrected
body of Jesus is not a brand - new
body but his old one glorified.
He quotes physicist Brian Swimme: «The universe shivers
with wonder in the depths of the human,» and
points out that this sense of an emergent universe identical
with ourselves gives new meaning to the Chinese sense of forming one
body with all things.
It is said for example that thoughts do not occur at a place in the
body at all, not even in the brain; more importantly it is
pointed out that the spatial properties of images do not coincide
with spatial properties of any part of the brain and that therefore the images must be in some sort of mental space.
The
body is the immediate environment of the soul, the physical
point of contact
with the available material world.
These
points fit in
with a relational view of reality and can be amplified by looking more closely at that view and asking: How would the resurrection of the
body be interpreted in a relational approach?
One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant
bodies by contrast both
with their gains in the preceding ten years and
with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage
points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage
points.
As I have quoted on other occasions and in other writing, St. Thomas Aquinas made the
point with his usual precision in an incidental remark — provided perhaps that we change his word «soul» to the word «mind» Aquinas said, «In his «rule» God stands in relation to the whole universe as the soul stands in relation to the
body.»
GOPer I have no problem
with the 10
points I do have a problem
with source of change in the
body of Christ (Church).
Although his way of working this out may not appeal to us,
with our quite different scientific knowledge, and our own philosophical idiom, the
point here is that Aquinas, like the other theologians of the great Christian tradition, was no «spiritualist», denying or minimizing the material world and the physical
body and their ways of working.
In Stoicism, the contradiction between reason and all else in the
body and soul was carried to an extreme
point, and although reason still claimed kinship
with nature and cosmos, most of what we regard as «natural» was ruthlessly suppressed.
Reynolds makes a similar
point: «His resurrected
body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity
with humanity....
But the action of this church's governing council does
point out the ever - changing
body of opinion
with which present - day theologians must deal.
The
point is that to the recovery workers whose hearts were torn out
with every dead
body and or
body part they found, this artifact gave them comfort.
While at their highest
point such activities, particularly conceptualising, are immaterial and so are not ultimately dependent upon the
body, Aquinas held that in this life the whole gamut of rational activity needs various interior sense powers that come
with the
body.
We would end up
with a fractured canon,
with bits and pieces taken out of their Scriptural context,
with a different
body of canon for each theological
point of view, and
with those portions of Scripture which we find uncomfortable not only ignored but disposed of altogether.
What if the
point of community was just to be community that is working towards being a functional, healthy and whole community, a small model of what unity in diversity looks like, a local expression of the
Body with all its members?
But at this
point it is sufficient only to
point out that in the chapter of I Corinthians 15 itself, Paul actually discusses the nature of the general resurrection and attempts to answer the question, «
With what kind of
body do they come?»
But it is well to remember that not only did He interpose his
body (which these days is the Church — something to think about and quite in line
with the blog's
point) between the woman caught in adultery and the mob out to persecute her quite literally to death, He also turned to her and said, «Go and sin no more.»
As well as learning from the past about the importance of a healthy diet, we might also reflect upon a
point made by one of the contributors to «Sunlight» (a journal of the 1920 - 30s concerned
with promoting healthy living): that we have minds as well as
bodies, and behaviour depends upon «whether one's mind is fed on treasure or on trash».
In the latter the finite universe was almost alive, filled
with self - moving
bodies seeking their natural place of rest: natures moved teleologically to seek fulfilment; the earth occupied the central, lowest
point, to which all heavy
bodies tended.
In his book Surprised by Hope, N.T. Wright notes, «The
point of the resurrection... is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die... What you do
with your
body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it.
How much more could young people participate fully in the sacrifice of the Mass by being
with Christ at Calvary, by being united
with all souls in Heaven and Purgatory, and by receiving Christ's
Body and Blood, therefore being closer to Him than at any other
point of their earthly existence?
Overall, I consider myself remarkably healthy at this
point in my life — both physically and emotionally — as it pertains to my relationship
with my
body.
At that
point, Mr. Wright knew that he had a very intelligent son — one who could interact
with the world but just couldn't control his
body.
This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous
with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over
with sharp -
pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his
body.
(From the Christian
point of view (which in this coincides
with the biological viewpoint logically carried to its extreme) the «gathering together» of the Spirit gradually accomplished in the course of the «coiling» of the Universe, occurs in two tempos and by two stages — a by slow «evaporation» (individual deaths); and simultaneously b by incorporation in the collective human organism («the mystic
body») whose maturation will only be complete at the end of Time, through the Parousia.)
These differences regarding the gametes are, no doubt, correlated
with differences in
body structure and function, and also, more to our
point,
with differences of soul.
Then, I think, this Gospel goes on to lead the reader beyond the
point where one is concerned
with the physical
body of Christ; and in the story of Thomas it shows that faith is not to be established by sight; that you have got to look beyond any objective truth of the kind which might be established by visible, tangible, corporeal manifestations: to look beyond that to something different.
Wang's contribution here was to
point out that the humanity by virtue of which the great man is one
body with the world can be regarded both as substance and as function.13 As substance, the person's own personal being apart from expressions, humanity is the manifestation of the clear character by which the world is regarded as one
body.
Although Wang did not develop the
point, I believe he presupposed the cosmology of a harmony of vibratory motions as the background to his claim that the sage is one
body with the universe.
The particular amount of distance between any
point visited by a moving
body and the next one visited must be in accordance
with some or other law of nature and must be decreased by a mathematical Mind.
But, perhaps most significantly to the
point at hand, I have the oppurtunity through my «organized church» to connect
with and find resource in a community that is large enough and diverse enough to actually represent the
Body of Christ,
with all of its critical parts!
If she knew her bible better, she would know what happened to Sodom, what sodomy means and what it
points to, and she would realise that the «spirit man and woman» was created, then put into the
body called Adam, and the female (byproduct) was taken out of Adam
body, together
with her feminine spirit, and both, are actually one, because they came from one unity, and so, WE are a spirit, that was in Christ, and when He was put to sleep, WE.