I can restructure your mind and all your habits; of thinking, talking – restructure for your sake, not for mine – not that I will teach you that it is right or wrong but to do something to help you to feel more yourself and actually give you the kind of person that you have always dreamt to be. Moshe Feldenkrais
Each one of us speaks, moves, thinks and feels in a different way, each according to the image of himself that he has built up over the years. In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.
The aim is a body that is organized to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular strength but increased consciousness of how it works.
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“An immense field for inquiry is opened once the organic ties of social orientation are followed up into muscle, nerve and skeleton. Not only individual development or abnormality can be followed through the soma but ever wider cultural and racial attitude development.” Moshe Feldenkrais
A human being is like a computer that is capable of thousands of things. But we put in a card that only lets it do one thing. Until you change the card, that is all the computer will do: that one thing, over and over and over. That is the state in which we function and we believe that no other cards exist, that this card is the one and only card that we can function upon. I say that the difference between human beings and machines is that we make the cards. So, when one card doesn´t work, take it out and put in a new card. ‘Moshe Feldenkrais’
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The 24th issue of the Feldenkrais Journal arrived today and one of the articles, The Heart of Our Work, written by Marty Weiner (1943-2011) has a point worth re-sharing.
Marty’s is retelling of a story of Moshe when he was asked by a woman if he could do anything for the arthritis she had in her shoulder. Moshe asked her, “Who told you, you had arthritis?” She replied her doctor had and Moshe told her to go back to her doctor for help.
I bet your wondering why Moshe would say this or if you think you have the answer continue reading and find out what else Marty shares about this Moshe story.
Moshe continued to say, “Go back to your doctor, he is the one that gave you arthritis, maybe he can take it away.”
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As a facilitator of developing listening skills, I was pleased to hear these two quotes in the following video Dialogue at Washington High:
An exercise of listening the students take part in, after the guest speakers in this video, is similar to one I urge in my groups. To witness the connection in the students,who are from different backgrounds and to hear their surprise at the outcome, verifies to me our need to begin to develop the, ” art of listening. ”
In the tools for learning I encourage, what I call three parts of the dialogue;
In this clip I enjoyed hearing their interpretation for dialogue, as they refer to it. They mention it is not the following:
What they suggest is that it is a win/win for each person and from this comes new ideas, new ways of thinking where everyone benefits. The practice is simply listening. The exercise is to listen to each other without interruption for 15 minutes and then switch and listen to the other.
This is the basic skill I focus upon in my sessions and we work towards learning how to build upon this so that we can develop it into our everyday experience of interaction. Witnessing and hearing the sharing of the students experiences confirms the value of this technique.
Empathy from cultivating awareness from the inside out
The intent of this article is in the context of how communication and movement can support the decrease of anxiety, stress & fear.
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