Please read Hartley pg xxxi and comment on the paragraph beginning with "Many of us have been conditioned from an early age to deny the feeling and expressiveness of our bodies.............."
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Absolutely! How about limitations that we experience and then decide are permanent/ for me that was skateboarding and gymnastics- I fell hard and hurt myself and decided I was not capable of skateboarding. Same thing with doing a back flip - led by someone who was really good at gymnastics...Also- my hesitations with biking after a huge wreck- some fear is good right but not if it keeps you form moving in wonderful ways- I have been getting better with the bike thing but still afraid that a tiny crack in the road will send me in a neck brace on a stretcher.
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ReplyDeleteI often feel dissociated from my physical body when there is an enormous amount going on in my life on a superficial level. My head becomes so immersed in what I am doing and who I'm interacting with at the time that my body naturally reacts. My bodies normal reaction is to tense up, and sometimes at night after lying down for a while I feel all of my muscles release, when I didn't even know that they were tense. I have also noticed that when my mind is cut off from my body I feel less connected to nature and the earth I am walking on.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. It seems a rare and beautiful thing that by adulthood one has not been conditioned to deny the feelings and expressiveness of their bodies. In order for this to occur the adults in their lives would have learned to listen to their bodies as well. How can I ensure that my children will still listen to and express the feelings in their bodies as they mature? It will be interesting to notice were I instinctually try to inhibit them b/c of my own conditioning.
ReplyDeleteI had a very unique upbringing in which I was fortuante to have parents and a community who didn't put many restraints on my expressiveness. As I was growing up everyone commented that I was a very expressive person. I feel I am still that way, though I have of course been changed by getting older and being exposed to social pressure. I was stubborn about it when I was young and still beleive it today. I think children know more about certain things from the day they are born than adults could ever rediscover in a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the course of this quarter, my body has been opening up to new forms of expression and I think, because of my conditioning and because of fear, I have suppressed a lot of that expression. I can feel myself wanting to open up, and I can feel my body doing so on its own without my conscious awareness. But as soon as I am surrounded by people or in an unfamiliar place, I feel myself put back up the armor and won't allow honest expression to come out.
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