#so

When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly. . . . I started teaching a simple belly meditation in which I asked people to become aware of sensations in their belly (numbness and emptiness count as sensations). Every time their mind wandered . . . I asked them to begin counting their breaths so they could anchor their concentration. Starting with the number one and saying it on the out breath, they'd count to seven and begin again. If they were able to stay concentrated on the sensations in their belly centers, they didn't need to use counting as a concentration anchor. . . . you begin the process of bringing yourself back to your body, to your belly, to your breath because they -- not the mind medleys -- are here now. And it is only here, only now that you can make a decision to eat or not eat. To occupy your own body or to vacate your arms and your legs while still breathing and go through your days as a walking head. . . . Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #meditation #food

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves. ↗

— Laura Kightlinger

#feel #feel good #get #good #just

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #did #down

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#act #comes #each #group #leader

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#because #bros #i #me #next

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later. ↗

— Kimbra

#bring #else #emotional #go #go away

Almost every week, someone's mad at me. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#every #mad #me #someone #week

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River. ↗

— Ron Kind

#attention #bipartisan #both #caucus #congress

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#endowment #every #his #human #human life

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. ↗

— Alveda King

#both #error #fundamental #getting #human