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.
Escaping our automated habits
Habits. Love 'em and hate 'em.
Habits are brilliant in that they make life easier.
Habits are also brutal because they become so automatic that:
- we don't even know we're doing something that is harmful to ourselves (like compressing the bejeebies out of our poor low back joints every time we go to stand up or lift something)
- we keep doing 'em even when we don't want to (like clenching our jaw to concentrate or holding our breath to do anything strenuous)
Escaping Our Automated Habits
Coming upon this quote, I couldn't help thinking that this is one of the big reasons we do Awareness Through Movement® lessons.
ATM™ lessons help us do both the things pointed to by Koestler:
- plunge into the "more primitive levels of ideation"
- ascend to a more complex level of evolution
The first relates to the inherent intelligence we're all born with, given the shape of the homosapien sapien body on this particular planet with it's gravitational force etc.
Here I'm thinking of the word primitive in its ancient, original meaning, that is-- primary -- our primary intelligence.
And the second speaks to me not of ourselves as being complicated, but rather that we are complex-- meaning we are greater than the sum or our parts.
ATM lessons help us become more integrated wholes that can act in rich, creative, ever evolving ways.
ATM lessons help us break out of habits and help us understand what it is to be awake.
Tap into your innate, inherent, primary intelligence and find new responses to the stuff of everyday life. Make your life a little bit richer, because you're life is invaluable.
Cheers,
Gisele
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