How Do I Know That I Know?

It's a weird question; I'll give you that. (the Subject line silly)

Alexander put it another way, which helps make sense of it:

"Everyone wants to be right, but no one stops to consider if their idea of right is right."

This is true all over your life. A person can be with their partner for years, then one day wake up and wonder:

"Do I really love him?"

Wait.

All these years and NOW you're asking!? 

If you still don't know that, how do you know that you know ANYTHING?

It's an important question because what you know and don't know - and don’t know you don’t know - governs all that you think, say and do. 

Secretly. Hidden. To you at least.

All the time you thought you loved him, but he knew, he suspected. And then one day you wonder – how do I know that I love him? How do I know that I know?

And this is true of Posture. 

You think you know – my Posture is terrible, my Posture is good, my Posture needs updating, my Posture is better than hers/worse than his - and so on and so on. 

But all these opinions and beliefs – where do they come from?

At BodyChance, you'll find it's a philosophical journal when grappling with the facts of your Postural Movement. It’s a labyrinth, a maze. And that's a big deal - because all you are is a movement.

As far as Mother Nature is concerned, your ability to move is the raison d'être of your flash-in-the-pan existence. It distinguishes you from a plant. It puts you into the Phylum Chordata, and dates you back around 550 million years.

And from Chordata’s original ability to move, we Vertebrates have spun a tangled web of existence that is so complex – our simplistic origins are largely obscured.

But be ignorant of Postural Movement does not diminish its fundamental influence towards the other working systems you have – your cardio-vascular system, your breathing, your digestion, your senses, your planning and thinking, your abstractive ways of being. 

ALL of these systems are being continuously calibrated by your Postural Movement.

So…

How do you know that you know how to move? 

When Alexander was contemplating this question in the late 19th Century, here's what he wrote:

"I can remember at this period discussing with my father the errors in use which I had noticed both in myself and in others, and contending that in this respect there was no difference between us and the dog or cat. When he asked me why, I replied, "Because we do not know how we use ourselves any more than the dog or cat knows".

The invitation is there to come along next year to Japan’s Easter-like Golden Week holiday during the first week of May – and go deep. Refresh, question, watch and wonder.

Just get back to me if you’re interested, I only have three spots, and I’m already discussing it with a few people.

Meanwhile, watch the video for a picture of what it’s like…

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvykdYrq0oNxo7oUaGT1S5w