The Feldenkrais Method® does so much more than simply help you move better. It also helps you learn better and deeper, shows you how to develop richer attending skills and improves your self-awareness.
Creatures raining from the sky and talking cats
I've been thinking a lot about the power of being able to make distinctions since my conversation with a friend the other day.
As a Feldenkrais® practitioner, I've learned to make a lot of distinctions about movement and using my kinaesthetic senses.
And...
There are so many other ways and realms in which to make fine distinctions.
My friend was talking about the amazing way gifted writers make distinctions in language (words, sound, metaphor, rhythm, feel...).
And their creativity!
I've been reading Kafka By The Shore by Haruki Murakami and over and over I keep thinking: "How the hell does anyone come up with this stuff and have it make a strange sort of sense-- compelling you to keep reading?"
Not only does it rain leeches and fishes from the sky now and then, but there are talking cats too. And this isn't a fantasy, or sci-fi novel.
Somehow, with Murakami's genius, it all works, and as the reader you find yourself happy to be on this strange journey the author is taking you on.
Along the way, he slips in these profound philosophical quotes like this one:
In the book, that line is said by a call girl during sex, no less.
It's truly amazing.
So here's my question for you.
What do you like to do, that you're pretty darn good at, where you make a lot of distinctions?
Drawing? Music? Cooking or baking? Taxes? Bookkeeping? Parenting? Woodworking? Gardening? Quilting? Dogs? Filmmaking?
How you can bring that quality of organization that you bring to that, into other areas of your life you'd like to be a little better at?
I'll bet you any money, you organize yourself pretty damn well when you're doing that thing. With a little attention, you can spread that throughout more of your life, if you want to.
Cheers,
Gisele
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