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Index
Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Preface Introduction: A New Approach to the Study of Movement Part One: The Science
Chapter 1. The Postural Neuromuscular Reflex (PNR) System and How It Works
The Architecture: How Muscles Work in the Context of the Skeletal Framework Stretch Reflexes and the Musculoskeletal Framework: How Stretch Reflexes Convert the Musculoskeletal System into a Spring-like Framework The Organizing Principle of Head and Trunk: How the Relation of the Head to the Trunk Organizes Movement in Space Neck Reflexes: How the Neck Reflexes Play a Central Role in Organizing Muscle Tone Throughout the Body
Chapter 2. Muscles and the Role of Awareness
Chronic Tension: How Muscles Contract and Must Let Go into Length in Order to Function Properly Awareness, Thinking, and Muscle Length: How to Lengthen Muscles by Being Kinesthetically Aware and Sending Messages via Motor Units in the Context of Length Direction: Thinking and Intention Coordinating the Whole: How the Different Body Parts Must Be Supported in Order for the System to Let Go into Length and to Coordinate as a Whole, Which Elicits the Reflex Response of the PNR System The Gamma System: How Harmfully Performed Voluntary Actions Are Controlled by the “Old” Brain, and How to Restore This System Through Thinking and Stopping
Chapter 3. Awareness and Conscious Control
Ideomotor Action: How Action Is Part of a Pathway of Activity That Begins with an Idea and Ends in a Motor Act, and Why It Is Necessary to Address This Pathway in Order to Restore the Proper Working of the PNR System The Autonomic Nervous System and the Field of Consciousness: Why Stress Is Associated with an Imbalanced Working of the Ideomotor System and How the PNR System Acts as an Integrative Control over the Autonomic Nervous System The Means-Whereby Principle: How Our Subconscious Actions Are Oriented Towards “Ends,” and How to Perform Actions Consciously by Focusing on the “Means” Conscious Control: How Our Actions Take Place Subconsciously, and How to Achieve a Conscious Level of Control of Action by Superseding Subconscious with Conscious Direction
Part Two: The Art
Chapter 4. “Directing” and the PNR system
The Organization of Awareness The Principle of Non-Doing The Semi-Supine Position The Primary Directions Kinesthetic Thinking: The Key to Directing Wishing, Attending, and Non-Doing The Concreteness of Thinking Directing and Antagonistic Action Integration of the Whole
Chapter 5. The PNR System and How It Works
Forward and Up The PNR system and the Sacrospinalis Sheet Flexors and Front Length Antagonistic Action of Muscles Lengthening in Stature Lengthening in Stature Continued Widening the Shoulders Knees Forward and Away The PNR System and the Suboccipital Muscles
Chapter 6. The Means-Whereby Principle: Attention to the Process
The Conceptual Factor The Gamma System What It Means to Stop Thinking in Activity The Purpose of the Means-Whereby Principle Applying the Means-Whereby Principle to Real-Life Activities
Chapter 7. The Means-Whereby Principle in Practice
Positions of Mechanical Advantage Stand-to-Sit, or Sitting from the Standing Position Sit-to-Stand, or Getting Out of a Chair The Use of the Arms
Chapter 8. The Art of Conscious Control
Examining Our Actions The PNR System as the Basis of Looking at Yourself Opening a Window Inhibition and Directing The Problem of Subconscious Action Detachment in Action Inhibition and How to Do It A New Stage in Action
Notes Bibliography Index
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