Your Moving Mind
Podcast
Hosted by Michael Landau
#14 Your Weekly Quote
Spirituality
"...All elements of life have a spiritual aspect and a material one. When we remember this, all manner of miracles and manifestations are possible."
From the Mystical Shaman Oracle Deck by Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron Reid, and Marcela Lobos
Are you a spiritual person?
Does your spirituality include your body? If not, you’re missing something…
#13 Your Weekly Quote
Intuition
"You don't come up with E=mc2 if you don't know anything about physics. But neither by studying physics."
Michael Landau
Is intuition some kind of magic that pops up out of nowhere? Intuition is knowledge you come up with in your area of expertise. It is how a creative mind functions.
#12 Your Weekly Quote
Slow Down
"Slowing down to attend to the details of your sensory experience gives you tools to explore the space between intention and action."
Moshe Feldenkrais
The space between intention and action is where learning, change and growth can happen. But first we must be able to perceive that space. It can be very small.
There is only one way to open that gap to be able to maneuver in it: SLOW DOWN. Slow down and pay attention.
#11 Your Weekly Quote
Change Within
"All change, as you know to be true, comes from within, and it starts from you first."
James Wedmore
If we’re still on time to save the world, the change will come from within. This is the work I, you, we, can do and must do to make this a better world.
#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
