Just about all body movement, from walking to nodding your head, is caused by skeletal muscle contraction. Your skeletal muscles

function almost continuously to maintain your posture, making one tiny adjustment after another to keep your body upright.

The root of all health is in the

brain. The trunk of it is in emotion.  The branches and leaves are

the body.  The flower of health bloomswhen all parts work together.-  Kurdish folk

wisdom

There is a lovable quality about the

actual tools.   One feels so kindly to

the thingthat enables the hand to obey the

brain.   Moreover, one feels a good

deal of respect for it;

without it the brain and the hand would

be helpless.-   Gertrude Jekyll

Hands are the heart's landscape.

-   Pope John Paul II

The mind has exactly the same power as

the hands: not merely

to grasp the world,

but to change it.

-   Colin Wilson

Movement is a medicine for

creating change in a person's

physical, emotional, and mental states.

-  Carol Welch

Movement, to be

experienced, has to be

found in the body,

not put on like a dress or a coat.

-   Mary Starks

Whitehouse

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

-   Ken Wilbur

The pressure

of the hands causes

the springs of

life to flow. -   Tokujiro

Namikoshi

The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels,

cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

-   Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's

beingto be

experienced, explored,

enriched and, thereby,

educated.

-   Thomas Hanna

When you touch a

body, you touch the

whole person,

the intellect, the spirit, and the

emotions.

-  Jane Harrington

Emotion always has its

roots in the unconscious

and manifests itself in the

body.

-   Irene Claremont de Castillejo

The body must be

credited with an immense

fund of know-how.

-   Deepak Chopra

The first act of awe, when man was struck

with the beauty 

or wonder of Nature,

was the first

spiritual experience.

-   Henryk Skolimowski

Here in this body are the sacred

rivers: here are the sun and

moon, as well as all the pilgrimage

places. I have not

encountered another temple as

blissful as my own body.

- Saraha