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THE WAY OF THE 4TH TOE
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE FEELING BODY
INTRODUCTION
THE GROUND, THE EARTH
FOR ANYONE AT ANY TIME: JUST DO IT!
THE THREE BASIC ADJUSTMENTS
MAKING SURE OF THE FOURTH-TOE LINE
— Sitting
— Standing
— A New Way to Stand
— Walking
REVIEW
HOW DO YOU EXPERIENCE YOUR BODY?
THREE PERSONALITY TYPES
THE BODY AS A TOOL
— A Personal Example
— Dance Training
— Love and Imitation!
— Imitation and Neurobiology
— Most Physical Training
— Touching
— Review
THE BODY AS AN ORGANISM
— Something Inside
— Physical Tendencies
— Assumptions
— Relationship to Me
— The Fantasy of Motion
— Muscles and Fear
— An Empty Space
— The Imaginative Mind
— Imagined Space
— The Process that Transforms
THE BODY AS A CHANNEL
— Energy Driven
— Separate, yet Physically Locked In
— Impulses and Identity
— A Way of Thinking
— An Ancient Tradition
— The Stabilizing Force
— From Psychic Sensibility to Tactile Perception
— The Transformative Process
THE POSSESSIVE MIND
THE SUBORDINATION OF THE BODY
ATTACHMENT-MEMORY-CONTROL
— A Typical Response
— A Need for Closeness
— Dancing Is a Choice
DANCING ATTACHMENTS
— Tempo
— Rhythms
THE LOSS OF SELF
— Patterns
— Rationalizations
— The Denial
NATURAL DEVELOPMENTS
— Memory and Body
BODY MEMORY
— Imaging and Visualization
— Form
— Form and Directions
— Forms and Gestures
— Abstract Thinking
EXPECTATIONS
— Thinking Without Feeling
— Cognition and Fantasy
— In Movement
THE PARADOX
WITH THE MUSCLES
FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE THE INTERPLAY OF MUSCLES
THE INITIAL FIFTEEN EXERCISES
— Continuing the Exercises
ON YOUR OWN
DON’T GIVE UP
INTO THE FEELING BODY: THE EVANESCENCE OF THE BODY/MIND SPLIT
PSYCHOLOGICAL, NOT ACTUAL
THE SPLIT
TEACHING
MASS, WEIGHT, MUSCLES
MOVEMENT AND FEAR
THE CONTRADICTION
THE PROCESS
CONTACT, THE GROUND
AN OBJECT IN SPACE
A SIMPLE EXPERIMENT
THE EVANESCENT TENSION
INGESTING VERSUS DIGESTING
MOTHER EARTH
INTO THE FEELING BODY
THE NOW OF EVERYTHING AND YOU
AFTERWORD
APPENDIX
GLOSSARY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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