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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Week if 10/26/2009 Sensing in motion inquiry #2
One of the major aspects of this class is to highlight how movement works, to track this in yourself and others, and to really develop fine tuned attention to the inner workings of movement. Now that we have 5 whole weeks of mileage with each other and with this subject, make a list of how do you NOW define movement and how has this definition changed or stayed the same?
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things that I know about movement:
ReplyDelete-Movement is the expression of synthesis and integration
-Movement is an interface between internal and external environment
-How something moves tells a lot about its form
-Form is greatly influenced by movement
-Human development is guided by movement
-Movement is guided by gravity
-Movement is the flow that connects moments and creates continuity
After five weeks, movement feels like an idea that I can understand, define and express within my body. At the start of the class I had a strong felt sense of movement in my body but when I tried to define it, words came out that didn't necessarily resonate with my true experience. Now I am finding that it is much easier to connect that felt sense to words and cognitive expression.
I have certainly changed my perspective of movement. As I reflect I hear the beat of drum in my mind's eye. I could describe my perception of movement in relation to the body like rhythm in relation to music. Rhythm is always present and never lost, music can be its expression. Likewise, movement is always happening, and similarly to music, the body can act as a form of expression.
ReplyDeleteLooked at in another light, movement can used as a tool; In so many ways of course. One that I have found useful through class discovery is using the movement of my body, as well as the shared body of the class, to move the tacit experience into a more tangible world. That is, to express and discover ourselves in way that we are less able to do with our words or our more "traditional" brains.
movement: a happening.
ReplyDeleteMy definition of movement has become something that I can not say or type into this blog. It is everything that has happened to me, and was made to happen by me, and all the things that didn't happen. It can be intentional and voluntary, or a mistake or unconscious.
Before this quarter I probably would have said that movement is something you can see, something that has changed positions. Now, I still see this as movement, but I also see more than this. All the way to things that are not visible on the outside, but very obvious movements that can be felt when you look into yourself, others, and situations.
Before this class, I had the preconceived notion that the mind and body were separate from one another. I was naïve to the fact that the brain’s neural networks streamed all throughout the body. Movement is integration and confluence of these two entities. Feeling, attention, intention, focus, and action make up a sequence that represents the collaboration of these two systems. This is combined with one’s interception, extroception, proprioception, kinesthetic sense, and vestibular sense. I have come to realize how complex and special our minds and bodies truly are. Movement is constant learning and communication combined with an honest freedom of emotional and physical expression. One’s movement extends out to other people. Two people can move as one and become enwrapped in one another’s body maps.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the descriptions of movement that everyone came up with ahead of me on this inquiry. I experience movement as integrated magnetized event of consciousness that is initiated by a felt sense and gravitates into a focused attention and a strategic mapping of thought and sensation. I still feel an emptiness or black hole of understanding around the polarization and magnetization of matter that facilitates movement. What exactly is electrochemical messenging? Even after taking some chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiology, and somatics I still feel stumped by our mysterious origins. Now I have some vocabulary and understanding of what makes me move and feel, but can we really categorized and map will power?
ReplyDeleteSomething I feel I have come to realize after focusing on movement in our class is that I am in many ways defined by my movement. The movements I make day in and day out are just as present in my mind as they are in my body and the two together create the person that I am. Before this class I felt it was okay to excuse my body for being clumsy or careless, or excuse myself for not treating my body well. I have noticed lately, however, that my state of mind is a direct reflection on the way that my body feels and if I want to feel good all over it has to start with my body. Previously I opperated on the misconception that some people are just born with outstanding physical capabilities and some people will just never be coordinated. With all of our talk of neuroplasticity I have realized the seemingly simple idea that I am responsible for developing my own personal experience of my life, not only through my mind but throughout my whole being.
ReplyDeleteMovement describes and defines all that we do. We move through life in waves, growing and expanding, contracting and falling stagnant. We are always evolving, always moving, because even stagnancy holds a place in our development--even it is a part of our movement. In those moments when we feel stuck, when we feel numb, when it feels nothing is moving through us, tension builds...it builds until we reach the threshold and something powerful is set in motion. The stagnany is the stillness before the storm and even it is movement.
ReplyDeleteI believe that change is the only constant phenomenon in life and after this class, I can equate movement with change. Nothing ever remains unchanged, and nothing ever remains in stillness. Our evolution is characterized by, Defined by, Movement.
I feel like my definition of movement has certainly changed a lot throughout the quarter. I am able to be much more conscious of the ways I am moving and how they affect me both physically and emotionally. I also believed coming into this class that body and mind were something separate but now I feel as though it is more about consciousness than the mind. Every movement is a birth and so every movement is creating something from nothing. Humans are great creators and this is the way that we mirror "god."
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