Your Moving Mind
Podcast
Hosted by Michael Landau
#10 Your Weekly Quote
Introvert
"Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything."
Robert Rubin
It’s pretty obvious: I’m an introvert. It has a cost. The world around me tends to ignore me; it’s just too loud and moves too fast. I guess I’d have to raise my voice.
#9 Your Weekly Quote
Attention
"Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life."
Nadia Boulanger
Boulanger taught her brilliant students (some of the most prominent composers of the 20th century) to pay attention. She thought of it as the most valuable part of her teachings.
I believe it applies to you and me, not just to world-famous composers.
I teach my students to pay attention to themselves in movement. It’s a major tool in being present and able to learn and improve.
Take a few moments to do this exercise in attention with me.
#8 Your Weekly Quote
Clear Intention
"Be sure your intention is clearly present in your movement.
The movement organises itself when your intention is clear."
Moshe Feldenkrais
A little about what it means to have a clear intention, with a short Mindful Movement exploration, Feldenkrais style, to demonstrate it.
#7 Your Weekly Quote
Do Your Best
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
Maya Angelou
The deep meaning I’m getting from today’s quote is this:
What I’m doing today is good enough. Tomorrow I’ll do better, which doesn’t mean that what I did today was too little.
#6 Your Weekly Quote
Do What You Want
"If you know what you are doing, you can do what you want."
Moshe Feldenkrais
Do you really know what you're doing? What does this even mean? I think I have some kind of a Felden-answer here.
#5 Your Weekly Quote
Stay Young
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
Henry Ford
You must keep learning to maintain a young mind, but also, what you learn must be meaningful for you. It must serve a purpose.
#4 Your Weekly Quote
Monkey Mind
"What we pay attention to is actually a choice."
Jeff Warren
How I found out ‒the hard way‒ that I must be able to calm my mind before I can make that choice.
#3 Your Weekly Quote
Un-Qualified
"Anything new is accomplished by unqualified people".
James Clear
When you're doing something you've never done before, you're not qualified. Not yet. That's how great new things come to life. Always by unqualified people.
#2 Your Weekly Quote
Response-Ability
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
Viktor E Frankl
First notice that space. Then make it a little wider, so you can find the choices in it. That's how we become freer.
#1 Your Weekly Quote
Start with Yourself
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."
Robert Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
