Comments on: Rewire your Brain by Moving http://www.alexiglecia.com/2009/consciousness-world/rewire-your-brain-by-moving/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:28:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: alexiglecia http://www.alexiglecia.com/2009/consciousness-world/rewire-your-brain-by-moving/comment-page-1/#comment-36 alexiglecia Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:59:00 +0000 http://www.alexiglecia.com/?p=616#comment-36 That's a big sticking point I keep running into when thinking about transformative practices. Thanks for asking it! One big question I work with is: what is the relationship between how I move and who I am, in all possiblie meanings? Movement, then, can be done physically, emotionally, or more subtly. Someone who can do little but shift awareness and attention (and that is still saying quite a lot!) as well as modify the quality of that awareness, can indeed create openings in the body. The question then is what is an opening in the body? Openings go beyond just joint openings and might be observed as a release of tension, an increase of suppleness, or a dissolving of a trigger point. The opposite is true as well - massage, heat and other forms of releasing tension physiologically can affect the development of our consciousness. They go together. That's a big sticking point I keep running into when thinking about transformative practices. Thanks for asking it! One big question I work with is: what is the relationship between how I move and who I am, in all possiblie meanings?

Movement, then, can be done physically, emotionally, or more subtly. Someone who can do little but shift awareness and attention (and that is still saying quite a lot!) as well as modify the quality of that awareness, can indeed create openings in the body. The question then is what is an opening in the body? Openings go beyond just joint openings and might be observed as a release of tension, an increase of suppleness, or a dissolving of a trigger point.

The opposite is true as well - massage, heat and other forms of releasing tension physiologically can affect the development of our consciousness. They go together.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.alexiglecia.com/2009/consciousness-world/rewire-your-brain-by-moving/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Ryan Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:35:59 +0000 http://www.alexiglecia.com/?p=616#comment-35 Thanks for posting, Alex! One of the questions that's come up for me since I've started exploring embodiment is: If you can't move (quadriplegics), what happens to who you are? Are there still "openings" in the body to develop yourself? Thanks for posting, Alex! One of the questions that's come up for me since I've started exploring embodiment is: If you can't move (quadriplegics), what happens to who you are? Are there still "openings" in the body to develop yourself?

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