Moshe Feldenkrais was an Israeli physicist and engineer who developed a form of physical therapy and movement education known as the Feldenkrais Method. He believed that movement and awareness are essential for improving physical and psychological health, and his method is based on improving body awareness and movement patterns. His approach is used to help people of all ages and abilities to improve their posture, reduce pain, and increase movement and coordination. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Moshe Feldenkrais on love, life, peace.
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. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. — Moshe Feldenkrais
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. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance. — Moshe Feldenkrais
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. — Moshe Feldenkrais
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action. — Moshe Feldenkrais
We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Standing is harder than moving. — Moshe Feldenkrais
What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery. — Moshe Feldenkrais
A brain without a body could not think. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation. — Moshe Feldenkrais
In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles. — Moshe Feldenkrais
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. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Life Lessons by Moshe Feldenkrais
Moshe Feldenkrais believed that movement was an essential part of learning, and his work emphasizes the importance of body awareness in understanding how we learn.
His approach to movement and learning is based on the idea that the body and mind are interconnected, and that movement can be used to help us become more aware of our own patterns of behavior.
Through his work, Feldenkrais taught us that we can use movement to become aware of our own potential and to develop new ways of thinking and behaving.
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