Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of being in tune with both our physical and emotional states for holistic well-being.
Alexander Lowen's quote suggests that when individuals disconnect from their bodily sensations and attitudes, they risk losing a sense of wholeness. Such disconnection can lead to a split between the mind and body, which may result in emotional and physical disenchantment. To achieve true well-being, one must foster awareness of both internal feelings and outward attitudes, ensuring a harmonious relationship between body and mind.
In practice
This quote can be used during a wellness workshop to highlight the importance of being aware of one's body.
But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: 'When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride.'
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
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