“We act in accordance with our self-image” Moshé Feldenkrais
“We act in accordance with our self-image. This self-image—which, in turn, governs our every act—is conditioned in varying degree by three factors: heritage, education, and self-education.”
–– Moshé Feldenkrais, Preface to Awareness through Movement. 1972, 1977
“In those moments when awareness succeeds in being at one with feeling, senses, movement, and thought, the carriage will speed along on the right road. Then man can make discoveries, invent, create, innovate, and know He grasps that his small world and the great world around are but one and that in this unity he is no longer alone.”
–– Moshé Feldenkrais , page 54 Awareness through Movement. 1972, 1977
Abstract
“In a recent article, Leonard Geller (1982) criticized the concept of self-actualization as developed by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow on both theoretical and empirical grounds. His critique is based upon an assumption of a psychosocial understanding of self and a linear thinking approach to the human context. In this article, it is argued that the use of the term “self” in the human potential movement is fundamentally somatic and that linear thought, as it is usually understood is inappropriate to understanding concepts such as self and autonomy as well as any living system. The roots of such a somatic understanding are explored in systems biology and the formalizations of a logic of self-reference. A development notion of self-image is then sketched based on self-distinction as the central element.” –– Carl Ginsburg Toward a Somatic Understanding of Self: A Reply to Leonard Geller Journal of Humanistic Psychology Volume 24, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167884242
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