Awareness Through Movement #126

The mouth and head cavity – INNER AUTHORITY

There are a lot of words in this one, it calls for the imagination and a deep internal enquiry, which seems to be the right time to talk about authorities.

What I learned in the Feldenkrais training is that we have an inner authority, when we listen to our Self, and there are external authorities where an external source tells us what to do and how to do it. It’s up to us which one we listen to and act from.

This choice is available 24/7.

By bringing our attention to what is happening as it happens when we move, we start to develop an awareness for the inner authority that has a strong self interest in preservation. Is that a brain function? A gut function? Is there a brain IN the gut? Do our brains tell out guts tell our brain to act a different way?

This lesson could give you a clearer comprehension of what is happening between your ears, and how they’re connected to the nose via the eustachian tube:

Seeing this image has me realise why the sinus issues I’ve been experiencing have been affecting my ears!

Some of Moshe’s gold dropped into this lesson:
”…. This is one of the miracles of the universe. His feeling is so poor, or damaged, in so many things that he or she does not notice. He or she always relies on feeling and according to feeling, they do not feel the brain.

By feeling they do not even know there is a brain. They only know there is a brain inside when there is pain — when there is a growth and it presses on the brain, or when there is a haemorrhage in the brain. Then, it is felt, but usually, by the feeling with which we humans live, we do not feel we have a brain.

We do not feel it when it functions.

It is worthwhile to think of this sometimes, to realize that feeling is not such a wonderful thing on which to rely. It is possible to rely on it for those things that all humanity has experienced a hundred million times during a million generations.

On that, we can more or less rely, but if we are to do something new — if a person wants to change within himself or herself, and find a better ability, or to find within himself new vital resources that are buried within and are not used but are inhibited — then it is impossible to rely on feeling at all.”