10 April

Have posted a few times how our bodies are not pulled down by gravity. That we’re all ‘weightless’, here on the surface of the Earth. Part 2 of this story is just as interesting. The motive force for all of your body activity is not inside you. It’s OUTSIDE you. Your perceptual system doesn’t gather information, which you then ‘process’ and turn into movement. It’s sensori-motor. Perceiving activates your muscles, directly, you never need to do muscle movement. We’re exactly like puppets, except there is no puppeteer. Our surroundings are the puppeteer. Try this. While standing somewhere (or even sitting), be talking to somebody a few metres away, or be looking at something. Then simply want to move to where that person or thing is. DON’T stop talking to them or take your attention off whatever the thing is, to try to go inside yourself to make muscles move you. Keep doing that activity, as you move. You should find you just spring off into movement, elastically, without you needing to do a thing. Our bodies are elastically-sprung. They literally spring us into posture or movement, based on what we’re perceiving. Trying to do any of that by moving your own muscles will wreck the whole thing, making you tight and stiff.