Derek Notman

Founder of the awakened embodiement project. Teaching self awareness through movement, meditation and jin shin jyutsu.

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Notice that the feeling isn't the image and the image isn't the word and the word isn't the thing itself

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Relaxation vanquishes stress in the same way that light vanquishes darkness

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Recognize control as illusion and compassion as essential

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Compassion is born of an open and honest look into and at our own experience

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The movement away from the moment is in the act of construction. The going from here to there,stillness to story.

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"Without thinking about it, tell me what is wrong with this moment"

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the meaning of life is finding meaning in life

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"To do nothing with the world is the drum that announces learning"

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We must move beyond the confines of the conditioned mind and into the openness of the heart

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The Intentional miseducation of the masses is at the root of our current despair.

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Tell Massachusetts' colleges and universities: Divest from fossil fuels http://t.co/NwzkDxb7 via @CREDOMobile

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"The body reveals the mind and the mind reveals the spirit"

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"It is the sense of struggle,which creates the struggle"

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Relaxation is the gateway to all good things. It is a skill to be cultivated and a direct indicator of where we are in the present moment.

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Ride the waves of sensation without falling into the waters of thought

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All things are made up of things other than the thing itself