Quotes by Moshé Feldenkrais

Moshé Feldenkrais's insights on:

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In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised.
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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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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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Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.
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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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Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.
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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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People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action...
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A brain without a body could not think.
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What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.
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