"We act in accordance to our self-image."
That's the opening sentence to Moshe Feldenkrais' book Awareness Through Movement and one of the main tenets of the method he developed. It means that what we do, the very way we move through life, is based on our conscious perception of our bodies, not on our structure.With this notion comes the idea that the self-image can—and does—change as we grow and develop. Recent reserarch in neural plasticity has proven overwhelmingly that this indeed is just what happens. That's the good news of modern neurophysiology: your brain isn't set, it can change.
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