The injury that had seemed so permanent now feels fundamentally changed. Something else is here now, and I like the (new) feeling: integrity, strength and ability.
Imaginary Meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais
“Out beyond all ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” -Rumi
We know, through the teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais, that difference is what makes us human. We already live in a world where this is true, so now the challenge is to really live as if this is true, to move beyond our personal limitations which were inflicted on us in a range of ways to make us conform to parental and societal expectations. These limitations enable us to form the habit of discounting our own sensations and our vowed and unavowed dreams.
Improve chronic pain though improving the functioning of your nervous system
Create new metaphors to counter the "war on pain"→ movement towards curiosity as an approach, rather than self-violence. Deborah Bowes shares her thinking behind her self-paced Feldenkrais Series: Curiosity, Self Image and Pain
Curiosity, Compassion and Pain
Feldenkrais Podcast #4 with Deborah Bowes
We talk about:
• How Feldenkrais reassures the limbic system
• The relationship between pain and self image
• The phenomena of pain
• Feldenkrais is a bio-psycho-social model and pain is a bio-psycho-social experience
• The importance of empathy and compassion in changing neural pathways