Richard discusses how developing somatic awareness
with body sensing is a way to calm both and mind and reset the nervous system.
Not exact matches
It doesn't even make much business
sense, since millennial parents — who are the ones buying the dolls — have been calling for the brand to create dolls
with more realistic
body types.
You said, «As intricate as the human
body is,
with all its systems, defenses, and healing properties, it only makes
sense.
The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant
with the idea that Shari'a, the large
body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some
sense the rule of God.
Oh, we all know their
bodies are out in the cemetery, but as long as we have that altar and all that goes
with it, these people in a very real, spiritual
sense are still
with us.
This can be
sensed physically, because of the unity between soul and
body, and expressed too - always according to the truth of God, and
with honest prudence in the light of His grace; we all have to be aware that we live
with a fallen nature, that our
bodies can be victims of disordered drives.
With what
sense of contempt or ambivalence did he slip through his grave clothes into his
body and back to his troubles?
The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own
bodies» leaves us
with an unrealistic
sense of human power and an exaggerated
sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.
Christians should, given their tradition, be inclined to find
sense in
body language, not only because of the resurrection of the
body but also because of the bread and wine of the eucharist as the
body and blood of Christ, and the church as the
body with Christ as its head.
Such a split makes no
sense in our world: spirit and
body or matter are on a continuum, for matter is not inanimate substance but throbs of energy, essentially in continuity
with spirit.
In John, Mary, finding the tomb laid open by the removal of the covering stone, concludes without investigation that the
body has been removed by some person or persons unknown, and reports to the disciples in that
sense, but as in Matthew, a meeting
with Jesus himself resolves all uncertainty.
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.
«The church» might mean the religious establishment, but in its truest
sense, it is the very «
Body of Christ»
with each of us as members.
He had been taught to read in a way that maximally engaged the
body and
senses: reading aloud, seeing and hearing words, simultaneously moving the lips and projecting the words
with one's breath — an expressive art of tone and emphasis.
Religion is a full -
bodied experience that includes all the receptors — all the
senses —
with the rational mind being only one locus of information about reality.
What I can't get is how an infinite super being without a physical
body with magical powers and a strange interest in what we do in our bedrooms actually makes better
sense to some people than an infinite, utterly simple natural universe.
The intuition that I,
with my conscious experience, am an actual individual
with the power of self - determination, to make decisions and to cause my
body to do my bidding, is reconciled
with the equally strong
sense that my
body is real, and that it exerts powerful causation upon me, in terms of the speculative hypothesis that all actual occasions are occasions of experience, so that interaction of
body and mind is not the unintelligible interaction of unlikes (the unintelligibility of which has led philosophers to deny the distinct actuality either of the mind or of the
body).
The success of pigeons
with cases of absolute value may be relevant to Richard Herrnstein's finding that pigeons possess natural concepts of person, wee, and
bodies of water, in the
sense of recognizing these objects in many different pictures even when the size or angle of the representation is changed or it is mixed
with a bewildering variety of other objects (CVPC 550).
Our responsibility to take care of the poor is a personal one and a corporate one in the
sense of the
body of the Church — not a national one in the
sense of putting a gun to the heads of our neighbors and
with it, forcing them to do as we think is right.
Paul indicates that by baptism, all participate in the one
body with «no
sense of division in the
body, but that all its organs might feel the same concern for one another.
In the precise
sense homosexual acts comprise anal or oral intercourse chosen by two males,
with the intention that at least one of them achieve satisfaction by ejaculating within the other's
body.
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.
Fairness, however, is always maintained and one finishes reading the book
with a
sense of thanksgiving that, despite the frailties of her individual members, the Church as the
Body of Christ has remained faithful to her mission.
In a true
sense, the capacity of the
body for affection defines the capacity of the
body for perception, since it is one
with the capacity of the
body to respond to its environment.
This is based in part on the recognition that the self - healing, self - protective resources of one's
body are somehow linked
with one's faith and
sense of meaning.
All of our most immediate experience of other occasions remains unconscious, qualifying consciousness only
with a vague
sense of derivation from the
body.
It is «a
sense of brokenness,» he says, «the shame of feeling «this is not the way it's supposed to be»
with my
body, my psyche, my sexuality.»
And if we are truly oriented towards God then it makes
sense for our ultimate destiny to be the oneness
with God which the death of our physical
bodies makes possible.
Jesus neither distinguishes
sense and spirit, lower and higher, in man, nor does he speak of the divine which is confined in the prison of the
body and must be released so that it can free itself from the material and be united
with God.
That is, one could not know where his
body is apart from his mind, for one locates his
body always only in connection
with the feeling or
sensing of his mind.16
But there is also a
sense in which the space around
body cells is continuous
with the space inside them.
If the fundamental laws of connection changed altogether
with variations, for instance, in the shape or size of
bodies, or if the laws governing the behavior of a complex had no relation whatever to the laws governing the behavior of its parts when belonging to other complexes, there could hardly be a limitation of independent variety in the
sense in which this has been defined.
The
sense of «churchly appurtenance,» in von Hügel's phase, is something we must cultivate these days, to help our people recognize that in and through the parish of St. Vitus, Smithville, the very glory of the mystical
Body of Christ shines forth, «the holy Church throughout all the world» is reflected, and Christ is present still as we offer ourselves, m union
with His perfect Sacrifice, in the eucharistic memorial of the passion and death of our Head.
That is going to contradict all that you have believed, and you can only believe that your spirit dies, not know it while in corporeal form, because you can not prove that your
sense of existing dies
with the
body.
Is it progress for humanity when sexuality is deprived of all
sense of mystery and sacredness, when sexual attraction is no longer
sensed as a force directed to a life - long communion of two persons, when sexual activity is to be as promiscuous as among animals, when sexual intercourse is reduced to a meeting of two
bodies which is quite compatible
with a one - sided or mutual contempt for the persons involved - the very level of prostitution?
As psychological sexual identity comes to define who individuals are in the most basic
sense, then everything else --- from society's moral norms to our physical
bodies --- has the potential of becoming simply so much external tyranny to be overthrown or turned into plastic, something to be escaped, ignored, or remade in accordance
with individual whims.
It is possible for a man to be born
with less testosterone and more estrogen in his
body, which in a
sense, would make him feel like a man trapped in a woman's
body, and make him feel like he was born to be gay.
Even in dreams, as Bergson has shown, once and for all so far as I am concerned, two further realities are involved: some aspects of the subject's own past experiences (memory) and (sensory awareness) of the subject's bodily state, in whatever
sense it has a
body, and
with the last, to some extent, the state of the environment, as well.
If God is in some
sense body (and the world taken as a manifestation of that), then
bodies would matter to God — God would love
bodies — and salvation would be as concerned
with such basic needs as food, clothing and shelter as
with matters of the spirit.
Funny how star gazing gives one awe and a
sense of eternity and in my case it removes the hope of heaven... i.e. there is no heaven, just space
with gazeous substance... a place where it is childish and absurd to think we are going when we die... Our solar system / galaxy seem empty of organic life altogether... actually inorganic seems to be the norm... so my faith struggle of the week is how can I possibly believe in after life... when reality shows me decomposition of all that we are, scientific observation does not allow room for a «spirit
body» to rise and go in some nebulae... So why do I still need to believe despite this raw evidence... I drive me crazy sometimes...
To what extent do our religious
bodies today provide us
with a national
sense of ethical purpose?
In one
sense, every being is one
body with the universe in that its rhythms must at least be compatible
with the vibrations around it.
For there can not yet be said to be a live soul in a
body that lacks sensation when it is not formed in flesh and so is not endowed
with sense.»
Theologically, such television organizations, in their relationship
with their audiences, are deficient in two characteristics that have traditionally been seen as essential to identifying a
body as a church: they have no sacramental dimension to their worship and there is no meaningful
sense of their audiences being a particular community in Christ.
Obviously, in a legal
sense a woman has the right to do
with her
body whatever she wishes, however:
peppered
with a great deal of regret and nostalgia.When I think of «the church» in the
sense of a
body of believers, for me, that is now a
sense of uniiting
with people that is no longer dependent on religious affliation.So, I can't really say,
with serious convicton, «I love the church» That said, I strongly identify
with reasons 1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 (well 10 from the audience / particpator position).
Indeed, Smith supplemented his common -
sense argument
with an invocation of the equity principle saying «It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole
body of people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged» (Vol.
And then, when man is separated from God, he lives in darkness, and the part of him that was given to him to discern between the truth / reality, and lie and deception becomes dead, while he still functions
with his
body and his natural
senses.
Anyone
with any common
sense can look around at the world, look at the genius in the design of the human
body and in nature and know that intelligent design was behind it all.
What I love about eating for my cycle is having something to follow each week that is different from the last but most of all, I love feeding my
body with essential micronutrients specific to each phase, mostly because it makes so much
sense.