Movement of the Mind part 1 – Where Does Movement Begin?
In class I often ask students to look for the beginning of a movement. Then look for it again.
But where does movement really begin?
Was the beginning of the movement where you first thought it was? When you looked again, did you discover it had started earlier than you thought?
Consider the concept “bodymind.” It’s an attempt to put a word to the quantum discovery that it’s not accurate to think our body is separate from our mind. They are, or better, it is a single phenomenon, not two interacting phenomena.
So, if we are looking for the beginning of a movement of our body, are we looking for the beginning of a movement in our mind, too? It seems this must be the case.
But our perspective may not be convinced.
Does that mean something must change in our perspective? Should we orient ourselves in a new way for this phenomenon to be apparent to us?
Movement and balance work like Freeing Your Body can guide us toward the possibility of a new perspective. They help us to learn how our mind and our body work together as a unified whole rather than as leader and follower. We discover that neither our body nor our mind can move or change independent of the other. They can only act together. We may notice a change first with a body-focused perspective, or we may notice first with a mind-focused perspective. Can we learn to look with a mindbody-focused perspective which sees it all at once?
I’ll consider this further over the next few weeks.
Photo by kevin turcios
