Submit a quarter-page typewritten summary of the assigned reading packet IMAGERY
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Submit a quarter-page typewritten summary of the assigned reading packet
IMAGERY AND SELF-SHAPING 123 been unwilling to disengage from these static attitudes, stereotypes of performance which announce, "This is the way I must be." So I invite people to get at the source of themselves. I ask them to evoke their own excitement, call forth their own sensations. I encourage them to express themselves physically and to feel the emotions associated with their expression. I encourage them to move parts of therm selves that are rigid, and to recognize the thoughts re lated to their stiff body attitüides. I invite them to un- cover and, above all, to live their own excitatory patterns and rhythms. Out of their living grows their understand ing. All of this becomes possible as they challenge their assumptions, their roles, the ways they do things. IMAGERYAND SELF-SHAPING All too often, our way of being somebody is to be son body else's body. Our way of being embodied is to be Daddy's ideal of a good girl, Mommy's ideal of a good boy. We learn to mimic people, especially people who are successful by society's standards. "Act like your fa- ther." Or, if father is a failure: "Don't act like your fa- When we are willing to experience ourselves, we don't live anybody else's life. Nor do we lose ourselves in fantasy. As our bodies become freer, less constricted, we begin to shape ourselves imaginatively rather than mimicking and fantasizing. Who developed Babe Ruth's batting style for him? Who inspired Columbus to set sail? Who teaches lovers how to make love? er And then we live a lot of fantasy, a lot of if-only If only the world were a different place I could be happier, more outgoing, more sensually alive." Or we escape into booze, the movies, compulsive eating. In- stead of inhabiting our bodies, we both abuse and run away from our bodies. And things happen to us. We be- To Know or to Grow To form is to.grow, A crystal expands itself in an addi- tive way; a tree, in a geometric extendedness. We hu- mans grow by increasing our motility and coordination and by inventing new behavior, new shapes and feelings and responses. The intricate connectedness of developing shape and responsiveness that we usually call growing, 1I call forming come victims. Fantasizing and mimicking and taking assigned roles are methods for avoiding self-forming. We practice these methods until we identify with them. Most people who come to work with me have experienced very little other than self-avoidance. For various reasons they have Growing is more than knowing. It is more than theExplanation / Answer
Summary:
To become somebody is to be in somebody else's body. Fantasizing and minicking assigned roles are methods of avoiding self-forming. to form is to grow. It is our emphasis on knowing that enables the brain to feel that it has a body.
The highest level of excitement occurs during self-expression and it is not associated with self-perception. Expression impels us towards more self-forming, towards expressing more deeply. Self-awareness arises during self-collecting, self-containing and self-intensifying.
Containment is both automatic and self-initiated. No two breaths are ever the same. There is a very evident relationships between breathing patterns and individuality. chest breathing reaches into space. The cry is the mother of all emotional expression.
The formative process contains three phases: expansion, containment and expression. In self-collecting, a person find his limitations.Expression is the outcome of our enlarged excitation.