feldenkrais

Scientist, martial artist, and founder of the method that bears his name, Moshe Feldenkrais wrote several influential books on the relationship between movement, learning, and health (consciousness)

somatics

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  1. anxiety of motivation for actionafter

    Anxiety is present in all compulsive action, felt as inner strain and always expressed through muscular tension.

  2. enacting behaviour of othersafter

    Imitating other people’s behavior rarely solves personal problems and often makes the right solution harder to find.

  3. maturity vs means of obtaining approvalafter

    Good looks, absolute unselfishness, superman ideas: habits that once won affection and approval turn compulsive when they threaten to fail.

  4. personal experience in developing voluntary controlafter

    With voluntary control we learn to rely on ourselves, deciding how much pleasure to forgo and how much displeasure to incur.