Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body. — Alexander Lowen Attitude Copy Share Image
Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and… — Alexander Lowen Animal Copy Share Image
What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the… — Alexander Lowen Adventure Copy Share Image
The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good… — Alexander Lowen Feelings Copy Share Image
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto… — Alexander Lowen Action Copy Share Image
In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they… — Alexander Lowen Happiness Copy Share Image
Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the… — Alexander Lowen Body Copy Share Image
Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The… — Alexander Lowen Children Copy Share Image
The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated –… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Stepping out of one’s world or out of one’s habitual self is a transcendental experience. [...] If we seek transcendence, we may… — Alexander Lowen Dreams Copy Share Image
Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible… — Alexander Lowen Bounds Copy Share Image
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate… — Alexander Lowen Body Copy Share Image
Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may… — Alexander Lowen Children Copy Share Image