Abs, Lead the Way!
Why should the consciousness/thinking/brainboss get to be in charge all the time? Not that it is, not really, but the mind gets an awful lot of expectations laid upon it to lead, and it doesn’t know how half the time. Maybe that’s just me, and I’m sure it is especially so for me for various reasons, but it seems to be everyone to some extent. We think we KNOW all about our lives and selves, but so much is just beneath the surface, just under the range of awareness, just beyond the grasp of consciousness. And yet it isn’t that we can’t delve deeper, because if we open up some more channels inward and outward–not only relying on that conscious mind when we have so much more–we can touch much greater insight and power. I know the conscious mind has its role, and mine seems to have a lot of projects and energy, heaven help me. But it’s not the only game in town.
I’m thinking of how the body can lead the way and open up something that had gotten forgotten or shut down or, simply, closed. If only it has the chance, it can; if only it’s given the trust to do what it can do.
That all sounds very serious, and it is, but my example is rather trivial. Or perhaps it’s not. I went to a pilates class after missing it for a while, and (it is fun to be exercising sitting/lying down–I’m either a lazy ass or it’s just easier on my wooziness-producing sluggish circulation and undoped blood) I let the movements do their work on me. Stabilizing, control, precision–not words I’m terribly drawn to, to say the least, but things I sometimes need (probably because I’m not drawn to them I need work there, or I need work there because I’m not naturally drawn to them, or something). And as I felt myself moving (or trying to) in those controlled ways, and especially that stabilizing quality of pilates, I felt a sort of settling down on lots of levels. I haven’t been very settled lately, or stable. But moving like this reminded my of what that can feel like (or at least my best approximation of stability). I don’t know that I’d come to this in the opposite way–deciding I need to become more stable and then figuring out how to make that happen in a more mental or environmental way.
Tags: abs, body, body/mind, control, mind, pilates, stability
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