As James (1890, 242) says, "Our own bodily position, attitude, condition, is one of the things of which some awareness, however inattentive, invariably accompanies the knowledge of whatever else we know".
We will read bodily gesture, attitude, form as a representation, as an evocation.
Swallowing is influenced by bodily position.
Silence, devotional readings, set prayers, the rosary (beads used as a devotional aid in Roman Catholicism), bodily postures and attitudes, music, and works of art, including the icons (images) of Eastern Christian churches, all serve to help the worshipper to concentrate his apprehension of the power of the holy and to intensify his sense of the presence of the holy.
Manifestations of depression are similar to those that might be created by other bodily ailments, however, attitudes about depression are usually associated with an individual being weak or lacking an ability to cope instead of being a legitimate medical issue that requires treatment.
By comparison, Charlotte Roche's 2008 sexually explicit novel Feuchtgebiete (later translated into English as Wetlands), summed up what one might call a more Germanic – ie frank and uninhibited – attitude to bodily functions.
In the 1990s and now into the 2000s, a number of feminists associated with the "corporeal feminism" movement have attempted positive connections with Deleuze in the name of an open and experimental attitude toward bodily potentials, in both the singular and political registers, as in the phrase "body politic".
It was the freedom and creativity with which Rodin used these practices – along with his activation surfaces of sculptures through traces of his own touch and with his more open attitude toward bodily pose, sensual subject matter, and non-realistic surface – that marked Rodin's re-making of traditional 19th century sculptural techniques into the prototype for modern sculpture.
The leading hypothesis was that osteopathic students enter the curriculum with a more positive attitude to bodily contact.
Gale's and Young's qualitative findings suggest a difference in the attitude to bodily contact between medical doctors and osteopaths and led us to hypothesise that students who choose the profession of osteopathy may enter the curriculum with a more positive attitude towards bodily contact.
