Write three examples of how all movement is a birthing
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I think that the ways that movement can be a birth is very diverse. It can be a transformation that is slow like turning into an adult from being an adolescent. Or it could be just thinking before you are going to move a limb in a specific way. The thought comes from the inside and expresses itself on the outside. It can also be minor movement within the body like battling a sickness, which is a labor within itself.
ReplyDeleteFor me, this slide links to the Japanese Psychotherapy site that was posted earlier. I appreciated being reminded of that there is nothing really to do, or fix, other than witness myself and the movement of emotion, thoughts, sensations... as these move through my being, like a wave. The movement of some of my emotions can feel so "laborous", but when this emotion moves all the way through, it feel like a birth of a new part of myself.
ReplyDeleteHere, I'm also reminded of the slide about armor. There are parts of my body that holds habitual armor up, and don't allow for certain emotions to move through. I notice my posture change to organize around protecting these centers. When this occurs, I often start feeling trapped (much like the arrows on the slide) as tension increases and the movement of the emotion feels like it stops and sometimes freezes, and this definitely adds to the labor of this birthing movement.
I also think of dancing as movement being birthed. Each movement having an origin in the core, emotions, or periphery. From this point of origin, as impulse becomes embodied, movement becomes a birthing as a part of ourselves is expressed.
I think of a birth of movement as stemming from physical, mental, and spiritual processes. A thought, an impulse, and an intent to act can be the birthing of a movement that is carried out as a physical expression or developed as an image or sequence of thoughts in the mind. Spiritually, a birth can be seen through a personal realization or discovery in regards to faith. Here are three births that relate to my life.
ReplyDelete1) Singing-through support from the diaphragm, a melody is born as the vocal folds begin to vibrate at different rates and intensities.
2) Dreaming-as I sleep and dream, a new reality is born that is different from the last. This birth allows for endless possibilities in regards to scenery and course of action.
3) Prayer-though I don't know whom I pray to, each prayer is the birth of a new question, concern, and discovery. I also believe spiritually that death is a birth into a new realm of consciousness. Does death exist?
Just as infants are held within their mother’s bellies where they may grow and receive nourishment until they are ready to be born, we, in all of our movements are guided and supported by a greater level of consciousenss until we are ready to “be birthed” into an awareness of our individuation from it and relationship with it. Does that make sense?
ReplyDeleteAll movement, once it leaves our bodies has the potential to ripple outwards in the world, forming new shapes and inspiring new movements around us. This reminds me of a line from The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran, “Our children, are not our children anymore, they are the sons and the daughters of life’s longing for itself.”
Movement could be seen as a continously growing expression of the many generations of genetic inheritence that a baby is born with. Birth is a process that doesn’t end when you leave the womb but rather is endlessly unfolding.
The las part of what adam said reminds me of a quote from Anam Cara by John O'Donohue:
ReplyDelete"the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart."
The thought that "every movement is a birth" makes sense to me on some level but it is very hard to put into words. I think how I understand this the best is by thinking that every moment is a clean slate for new possibilities. Every single action or nonaction is making a decision about how you want to affect the world wether it is concious or unconcious. Movement is turning potential energy into kenetic energy. Movement is exherting a force on the outer world. In someways it seems birth is a form of change. Every movement we make is changing (birthing) reality.
ReplyDelete"Every movement is a birth."
ReplyDeleteBirth is a laborious transition from something old to something new. In the traditional sense, the birth is the journey beginning in the uterus and ending in the world outside of the mother. Every movement is a birth, for it originates within the body, within a thought, feeling, memory, understanding. It originates from the core, the center, and ripples outward to the outside world, changing thoughts/feelings into expression and action. But, we must also remember the mother in the birth. Our actions always have an affect on someone and/or something else, and it can be painful and/or awe-inspiring. (I've never given physical birth so I do not know the specific emotions and sensations...I'm sure there are more.) Every movement from inside to outside is laborious for the journeyer as well as the guide. But within the movement is stillness, is the ability to be grounded, whole, and united with the larger spirit of humanity.
The most interesting part of birth to me is the pairing of two things to create one thing essentially from nothing. All births must be made and therefore are somewhat "purposeful" though of course this isn't always the case. But we partake in actions that create the next step. We partake in actions that create something from nothing, whether it be a movement or a love or a sentence or a chair. Birth to me is a creation of something where nothing once was. All movement then, by this definition, must be a birth. Every movement we make, is a creation. We are moving where there was once no movement. We fill space that was once unfilled. Even thoughts, claimed by the Greeks to be the births that men give the world (of course Women too), are tiny invisible children.
ReplyDeletemovement is birthing cause every time we move we have to create that electrical impulse. that neuron has to fire, creating a wave of life. This creation is a birth, because it was nothing and now is something. i think whenever anything starts or creates is a birth.
ReplyDeletelook a vegetables. a seed starts out, sedentary and then under right conditions its sprouts, it moves and grows.. this is a full on birth but also a powerful movement of reaching pushing the earth apart to get to the sunlight while thrusting down, down its roots to find the thirst of water.
a childs ability to crawl and then walk is a birth. From no movement comes a little and then more. more energy, more connections are needed, more is built for the child to be able to one day put all its interceptions together kinesthetically to create movement.
Water from the mountains. small individuals snowflakes fall, to create piles of snow that one day will melt and in that melting, water will start to run, run down hill and more will come together to create a magnificent flowing body of water. A birth from a small stream to a might river, is one of movement.
1. Waking up each new morning, beginning with sound, touch, sight, and smell is like a new birth. Often it is difficult for me to wake up in the morning. I always want to stay in the warm dark. I am a slow-birthing being.
ReplyDelete2. Each time I do a movement activity that I haven't done in awhile I feel like I have been born again to it. My memory and my mirror neurons are there to quicken the pulse of my continuing birth and renewal in the movement.
3. When I start a massage treatment I have a pattern and rhythm of movement. It could be likened to the process of birth because as the client begins to let go on the table and breathe more deeply into the experience of receiving, I can feel the contractions and expansions of their cells, breath, tissue, and blood. A journey begins through a dark tunnel.
hmmm. As I reflect on birth its opposing force enters into my awareness; that of death. Can life's process of birthing and creation exist without its counterpart? And how then can this inquiry be applied to movement in relation to birthing?
ReplyDeleteWith the movement of time comes the shift of the seasons. For spring to be born, must winter not first decay?
Let us again use the theme of time, and space as well. As the sun and the earth move/dance throughout our great galaxy a day is born as a night withers. Only, however, to soon be born again as the day that took its place takes a temporary bow back into the night. How interesting to note that the times we, as humans consider to be most beautiful/special/sacred are the times in between birth and death. A sunrise/sunset/twilight.
Is there a place/form of movement in which birth exists and death is nowhere to be found? If and when you find your answer, how does it sit within the way you feel and see as you sit with it?