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0′ 27″: From background to foreground
1′ 39″: Frustrated / high energy
4′ 00″: Vague / low energy
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I like the first exercise, hand to outside knee. Easy to sense the connection to physical balance point. Medium pressure felt good, “Powerful, strong”
The second exercise, bringing shoulder to opposite knee, felt more subtle. Something filled out in my center.
The back side access was interesting. I didn’t like it. Something on my back felt crawly, activated. When I tried it a second time, I had an impulse to turn around and push something out of my boundary. Some words came with the movement: “Sock it to him!”
I got curious if this related to an experience I had in the gym this morning where I was stretching my triceps overhead and a man came up behind me. He tickled my upper back where my hand was and made a joke “that’s the spot you can’t reach.” I felt angry. His image and the incident has intruded in my thoughts throughout the day. Now I realize that the boundary invasion had not been cleared from my body. The core exercises gave me access to an impulse outside of my conscious awareness, which was to turn and push. The rotation was important. I experimented with this movement and automatically connected to the power in my center and a filled out push. I tried it on both sides. Rotating to the left and pushing with my right hand was most satisfying. Then I shook it all off and felt energetic. In retrospect, I could have said to him, “Don’t do that!” There were a number of factors that prevented that: I see the person frequently, as we work out at the same time, I was taken by surprise, the words were not available to me. The words, “This is fun” just came to me. I can sense a possibility of asserting myself in a proactive, but friendly way the next time I see this person.
Great – a good example of the potency in taking the subtle reactions to activating places in the body seriously – and become curious
Practice a few minutes every day
Start the practice with Foot experiments and the Torso experiments.
Then experiment with the Core, as described in the video clip above.
And remember to experiment in everyday life.
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