<INITIAL APROXIMATION TO A POSSIBLE FIRST AID KIT ON EMBODIMENT AND MOVEMENT
atttention to self is necessqry and suggested, before working with others in group, collective and social contexts
1. Breathing and breath(system and biological mechanisms)
- conciouscness
- awareness
- listening
- without judgement
- loose, deep and slow breathing
- interconnection and exchange
- the voice is the sound of the breath
- we touch with voice
- silence and inbetweenness
2. Release anxiety, anger sadness or any other emotion
a/ suggest actions that help to arrive at body conciousness and awareness.
- because body is whole
- inner space <-> exterior space
b/ excercise
- taichi
- stretching, pilates
- swimming
- sports
- running
- ...
c/ concious relationship with nature
- the earth is a body
- interconnectedness
d/ talk out loud
- express, create, manifest
- use of expressive languages
- visual, plastic, word, sound, writing
- body movement
- therapy work: psychodynamic and dance movement therapy
3. visualisation, imagination and listening
- conciousness of body
- imaginative journeys
- inner space
- attention
- listening
- awareness and perception
4. Relationship to sound and silence
- listen to music
- brain reacts to sound
- body reacts to sound
- rythm, melody
- we enter in tune with sound
5. Experience change of focus
- any activity different from your usual ones
- take risks to learn new things
- tune down judgement and inner critical personal voice
- let go of preconseptions
- world is a mistery
- learn new things: read, walk, journey with no purpose, get lost, walk withoud a goal
- use other parts of your body that you dont usually use
- trick yourself
- wandering
- open body perceptions: propioception, sensoperception
6. activities that help relax body and mind
- let go, trust, open up
- consiousness of no forms
- empty space
- move differently
- dare to do what you think you can't do
- use of gentleness and care with the self
- adventure is risky but magical
- float, flow
- connection to natural elements
- rest
- lay and close your eyes
- listen
- walk different ways
- grounding
- wake up the skin
- breathe slowly
- be alone
- learn to enjoy being alone
- silence
7. connection to creativity for your health
individual space
the space of others
- group space
- collective and social space
- artistic practices in the expressive languages
8. attention to the new research in neuroplasticity
- mindfulness
- meditation
- find your own voice and ways
- visualization
- imaginative travels
- "the brain has the ability to reorganice itself through environment behaviour
- thinking and awareness of emotions, tuning to changes, awareness of self, empathy;
- the rewiring of the brain is POSSIBLE in the study of patterns and customs" - andrea olsen