Points of contact

Knowing the points of contact is crucial for understanding how to operate a vehicle or a horse. Where the feet and the hands go is of basic importance. We do not operate of course as much as we co-operate it. The same is true for the mind and the body.

Our theory of mind states that the relationship between the mind and the body is like the relationship between a rider and their horse. There are two things we have to understand. We need to understand that we are working with an intelligent system. Like the horse the body is self organizing, self-directed, self healing, self evident, and self-aware. The body is self evident because it literally tells us what to do with it. We do not operate it with our brain as much as we cooperate it with our muscle.

Second, When riding a horse it is the point of contacts that we need to focus on and be aware of. There is a cemetery between the writer and the horse. The riders legs and feet communicate to the horses rear leg and feet while the riders hands direct the head of the horse, often through the neck or mane. This controls the horse’s forelegs.

This is a simple and intuitive system of co-operation. The feedback and control system of the human body, it’s coordination dynamics, must be similarly simple and intuitive. Such a system by definition must be a very good fit and this would extend to its abstract description. It has to be a simple system on the face of it. The body map is a highly abstract geometric schematic. It is not by any means our representation of the deep core. it’s purposes simply to tell us where on the oxy line to focus while also reminding us that it is a bodywide whole that we can know as such.