Developmental movements are holistic. From rolling, to creeping to crawling, with transitions into different positions too, they all use all of you. And once we get up on our feet, and start focussing in on hands and tasks, that holistic nature of ourselves gets forgotten about. But it’s one of our greatest resources.
It’s not woo-woo, it’s science. One of the things I love about Feldenkrais is that it’s based in scientific enquiry. Moshe Feldenkrais was a physicist as well as a martial artist and creator of this method. And it’s clear, from the structure of every lesson as an experiment: measure, explore, measure again. See what works and what doesn’t for yourself.
And whilst Feldenkrais observed, it’s now proven without a doubt that we are mind-and-body together. One thing. One doesn’t just influence the other. They are two halves of the same coin. Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist wrote an important book on this: Descartes Error.
There’s no mind without a body, and no body without a mind. If they truly were separate, and only an influence it would be possible to do without one or other. And it’s not. So we’ll be safe in our embodied worlds from AI for a while yet, until like daleks they learn to climb the stairs!!
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