Alberti also claimed that he " excelled in all bodily exercises ; could, with feet tied, leap over a standing man ; could in the great cathedral, throw a coin far up to ring against the vault ; amused himself by taming wild horses and climbing mountains.

After his father's death in 1623, he devoted himself to bodily exercises and in a great measure overcame his natural weakness.

Gurdjieff taught that the movements were not merely calisthenics, exercises in concentration, and displays of bodily coordination and aesthetic sensibility: on the contrary, in the movements was embedded real, concrete knowledge, passed from generation to generation of initiates-each posture and gesture representing some cosmic truth that the informed observer could read like a book.

Currently the most popular form in the West is hatha yoga, a system of bodily exercises and postures ( asana ) initially intended to prepare the body for meditation.

A group of 22 young individuals gathered on certain days of the week to perform bodily exercises in the Serencebey neighborhood of Beşiktaş.

Since others did not play football, which was in disfavor in those days, they only participated in bodily exercises.

" Olaus Magnus Gothus ', the Upsala Archbishops ', history of the nordic people's different manners and camps, also about the wonderful differences in customs, holy practices, superstitions, bodily exercises, government and food keeping ; further on war, buildings and wonderful aids ; further on metals and different kinds of animals, that live in these neighbourhoods (...)".

Members of the sect wear light blue uniforms, and practice a variety of ritual and practices including automatic writing of inspired scriptures, scripture chanting, trance induced bodily exercises called training ( Shunlian ), laying on of hands, spirit mediumship, and other forms of charismatic religious practice.

Neidan uses techniques such as: composed meditation techniques, visualization, breathing and bodily posture exercises.

Breathing exercises were used to preserve jing or " life essence " and bodily postures were used to improve qi or " energy " flow in the body.

Sexually transmitted diseases are acquired through contact with bodily fluids, generally as a result of sexual activity.

Impairment in bodily structure or function is defined as involving an anomaly, defect, loss or other significant deviation from certain generally accepted population standards, which may fluctuate over time.

Clinical chemistry ( also known as chemical pathology and clinical biochemistry ) is the area of clinical pathology that is generally concerned with analysis of bodily fluids.

Various common law jurisdictions define act differently but generally, an act is a " bodily movement whether voluntary or involuntary.

Similarly, animals are very likely to do things not in the script, generally involving bodily functions.

In etymology, they are generally classified into four groups, based on the origin of a nickname: given names, job designations, bodily attributes, and geographical references ( including references to named buildings ).

However, the amounts typically present in bodily fluids do not survive nearly as long outside the body — generally no more than a few minutes if dry.

It sometimes includes such activities as removing clothing from the body, posing and propping of the body in different positions, generally sexual ones, insertion of objects into bodily orifices, anthropophagy ( the consumption of human blood and / or flesh ) and necrophilia ( the performing of sex acts on a human corpse ).

Speaking generally, the and the Pārāyanavagga tend more strongly to emphasize the negative sides of asceticism ( i. e., asceticism as a process of negating desire ), and show a strong concern with regulating everyday bodily activities and sexual desires.

A related practice is that of the deconstructed orgasm, in which stimulation and arousal is conducted at a very slow pace, allowing the ' stimulator ' to obtain feedback from the ' stimulatee ' ( generally spoken, but conceivably obtained by means of body language or measuring certain bodily responses and functions ).

This differs from Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism which believe in the Real Presence as an actual bodily presence of Christ, as well as from the generally Baptist position that the supper is strictly a memorial commemoration.

This is similar to the concepts of bodily humors in the Tibetan Medical tradition and the Indian Ayurvedic system, which both relate health and disease to the balance and imbalance of the three bodily humors, generally translated as wind, bile, and phlegm.

In his decision, Justice McReynolds stated that the " liberty " protected by the Due Process clause " ithout doubt ... denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

While Burroughs is generally seen as a writer who produced work of limited philosophical value, Burroughs wrote two Barsoom novels, which appear to explore, or parody the limits of excessive intellectual development at the expense of bodily or physical existence.

Man-hours do not take account of the breaks that people generally require from work, e. g. for rest, eating, and other bodily functions.

Fur is generally thought to have been among the first materials used for clothing and bodily decoration.

** Murder committed on the property of a public or private school, at an activity sponsored by a public or private school or on a school bus while the bus was engaged in its official duties by a person who intended to create a great risk of death or substantial bodily harm to more than one person by means of a weapon, device or course of action that would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person.

*** The murder was committed on the property of a public or private school, at an activity sponsored by a public or private school or on a school bus while the bus was engaged in its official duties by a person who intended to create a great risk of death or substantial bodily harm to more than one person by means of a weapon, device or course of action that would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person.

While there were scores of demonstrators the first day, all but 13 dispersed before New York State Troopers arrived and bodily carried the demonstrators to a waiting school bus for a trip to court.

The importance of these findings is that they contradicted both the then common pedagogic advice of limiting or avoiding bodily contact in an attempt to avoid spoiling children and the insistence of the then dominant behaviorist school of psychology that emotions were negligible.

In a 1973 essay published in the University of the Witwatersrand medical school journal, “ The Leech ”, current director of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute, Vernon Neppe proposed that the human personality survives bodily death and concluded that that the “ dead ” have communicated with the living.

This presents itself with postural instability, in which the person tends to separate his / her feet upon standing, in order to gain a wider base and to avoid titubation ( bodily oscillations tending to be forward-backward ones ).

" The law also recognises the crime of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, where grievous bodily harm is defined as " harm which in itself is such as seriously to interfere with health.

The brain cavity was extremely small and insignificant in comparison to the bodily mass, which was equal to that of the largest rhinoceroses.

In this low-pressure environment, some of the gases that are dissolved in the synovial fluid ( which are naturally found in all bodily fluids ) leave the solution, making a bubble, or cavity, which rapidly collapses upon itself, resulting in a " clicking " sound.

* Creation ex nihilo in which the creation is through the thought, word, dream or bodily secretions of a divine being

In Christian terminology, docetism ( from the Greek dokein ( to seem ) / dókēsis ( apparition, phantom ), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as " the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality.

Carcass ' work in particular is often identified as the origin of the goregrind style, which is devoted to " bodily " themes.

He lauded the enjoyment of simple pleasures, by which he meant abstaining from bodily desires, such as sex and appetites, verging on asceticism.

They are short in stature, quick in bodily movement, alert horsemen, broad shouldered, ready in the use of bow and arrow, and have firm-set necks which are ever erect in pride.

Irenaeus argued that the true gnosis is in fact knowledge of Christ, which redeems rather than escapes from bodily existence.

Cessation of dosing with morphine creates the prototypical opioid withdrawal syndrome, which, unlike that of barbiturates, benzodiazepines, alcohol, or sedative-hypnotics, is not fatal by itself in neurologically healthy patients without heart or lung problems ; it is in theory self-limiting in length and overall impact in that a rapid increase in metabolism and other bodily processes takes place, including shedding and replacement of the cells of many organs.

* Stage V: Thirty-six to seventy-two hours after last dose: Increase in the above, fetal position, vomiting, free and frequent liquid diarrhea, which sometimes can accelerate the time of passage of food from mouth to out of system to an hour or less, involuntary ejaculation, which is often painful, saturation of bedding materials with bodily fluids, weight loss of two to five kilos per 24 hours, increased white cell count and other blood changes.

A number of pagan religions purport the existence of a spirit or soul that inhabits the human body and which survives bodily destruction.

The novel has an ambiguous ending, with Bulero heading back toward Earth, and apparent proliferation of Eldritch's cyborg bodily ' stigmata ' - which may mean that Bulero is still trapped in Eldritch's hallucinatory domain, or that Chew-Z is becoming increasingly popular amongst Terrans and Martian colonists.

The development of Sensor Web technology may lead to wearable bodily sensors to monitor ongoing conditions, like diabetes or epilepsy, which would alert patients and doctors when treatment is required using wireless communication and PDAs.

This vitamin is essential for bodily functions, such as converting carbohydrates into glucose, which produces energy for the body.

According to Proclus, philosophy is the activity which can liberate the soul from a subjection to bodily passions, remind it of its origin in Soul, Intellect, and the One, and prepare it not only to ascend to the higher levels while still in this life, but to avoid falling immediately back into a new body after death.

It applies to substances which have a complex molecular structure, such as muds, sludges, suspensions, polymers and other glass formers ( e. g., silicates ), as well as many foods and additives, bodily fluids ( e. g., blood ) and other biological materials.

Paul's views went against the thoughts of the Greek philosophers to whom a bodily resurrection meant a new imprisonment in a corporeal body, which was what they wanted to avoid ; given that for them the corporeal and the material fettered the spirit.

They viewed Sunday rest as a civic institution established by human authority, which provided an occasion for bodily rest and public worship.

King Stephen died on the feast day which commemorates the bodily assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August, in the year 1038, at Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, where he was buried.

Take notice of the distances of the planets from one another, and recognize that almost all are separated from one another in a proportion which matches their bodily magnitudes.