13 March

An idea for my LM and Alexander friends, or anybody else. Common ideas about gravity and movement prevent many of us I think from ever experiencing our bodies/minds for what they really are. Take the idea of 'locomotion' - the etymology is below. It means 'to move a place'. Not to move a person, or car, or anything else 'in' space, but to move a PLACE. What does that mean? Say you're standing somewhere and want to move 'over there'. Our ideas of movement suggest this means moving from point A, here, to point B, there. We think space is made up of separate places, like that. So that's how we behave - we start here at A, and strain or use effort to 'move' to point B. We move 'in' space. But, who says B and A are separate in the first place? Isn't 'over there' part of 'here'? Can't you move towards there while still being present here? If you do that, you'll notice there's no strain or effort, you're not trying to move in space, you're changing the entire context of A, to include B. You're moving the 'place' itself, your 'locus' of activity (loco-), so that 'moving' becomes changing the context of your present situation. Not moving 'in' space.