NO PAIN, NO GAIN? One of the problems of most approaches to physical fitness--even those involving yoga and the martial arts--is that they do not take into account the generally impoverished functioning of our sensory awareness. They are based on will power, on doing, on mechanical repetition. They are based on the ego and its images of what fitness means. The slogan no pain, no gain is an extreme example of this approach to fitness. For many of us, it is only through intense sensations such as pain, discomfort, and resistance that we experience our bodies and believe that we’re getting somewhere in our efforts. We have little awareness or appreciation of the vast spectrum of subtle sensations available to us at every moment. Yet ... it is just this awareness that can help our bodies and brains learn and improve in action.--Dennis Lewis From my article Self Sensing and Effortless Action, first published in Somatics Magazine-Journal. Click on the photo/link to read the entire article:
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:00:00 +0000
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