I have a personal trainer. But I tried boxing; I tried ballet. I tried everything to see what works best for my body.
You should have personalized genomics, personalized physiology, personalized medicine, where each person's different, and each body is an integrated whole.
From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or how to cope with my body as it changed. With hindsight, I can see I was different. I was given a body that worked for photographic modelling and a photogenic face.
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
I equate physical activity with happiness not just from the perspective of producing endorphins but also from the perspective of really moving through emotions and getting stagnant energy to move through our body.
As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit.
I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings as beautiful and soulful as possible.
Time plays an important role. My physical body is taking shape in space, and I see that my ideas about how we influence space with our movement is really 'matter of fact.'
Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.
I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.
Cleanliness is important, and more than that is the physical fitness to attain healthy body and mind.
When it comes to physical strength, someone may have a stronger upper body than lower body, or a stronger right arm compared to the left arm. Similarly, we're likely to excel in some areas of mental strength while struggling with others.
When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
