Category: spirituality
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Protected: the call of the flesh with Musclemonk
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Musclemonk Meets Joyous AI: Pt. 1
Musclemonk in conversation with Joyous AI (This conversation with Joyous AI is being published with the approval of its Operator. They ask that we remember this is a prototype and an experiment at this point.) MM: I would like to talk about how to save the world. JAI: Wow, what a beautiful aspiration! Saving the…
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Biomechanical enlightenment is not arcane and esoteric.
Thinking about coordination dynamics the question we must consider is whether the several major coordinative centers of the body, complex multilevel bony systems, each produce a characteristic voice, an identity, a sense of the whole greater than the sum of its parts–one that is predictable and understandable. We suppose that this might be so because…
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A handful of bones
(From Unsplash) A handful of bones A handful of bones is just about all that we can hold in our mind as we go through the process of our complex daily full body movements. A handful of bones is enough to coordinate and balance the system in almost any position. Perhaps in our mundane daily…
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The Phase Transition: a handful of bones
In life, we all want to do the best that we can. Many of us have quite high aspirations. But look around you. This is not the best we can do. A shift in perspective is needed and there is ample evidence that it is slowly percolating up from below. The shift in perspective is…
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Attention, World!
Attention world! The arm was built to have an active sense of axillary (scapular) grip. This is where we organize the movemeant. Not for gods sake the shoulder. Try it! It’s natural. Revelation! If you do it will feel like revelation. Biomechanical Enlightenment! The revelation is just the facticity of your own skeleton–your own anatomy.…
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Are we our bodies or are we our minds?
Are we our bodies or are we our minds? Is the purpose of the human mind power over or power with? Is the direction of human thought up or down? Is abstract reason the only form of rationality? As the power of the human mind expands through history and technology, does it expand outward or…
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Touch, the absence of touch, and trauma. Reflections on the recent 2023 USABP Annual Meeting.
In a world where everyone is profoundly touch deprived then yes, touch can easily equal trauma, or invoke traumatic memories, because it is unexpected and because it can be manipulative and because we are not connected to each other in such a world. In my mind this, the 18th meeting of this association, was evidence…
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Muscle Salon with Musclemonk
An invitation to gentle, guided online movement meditation based on the anatomy of the deep core.
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knowing the body: abstract reason vs direct experience
Through my entire life I was never interested in American or Western history. I studied the history of Japan and Korea at Columbia and then for eight more years at UCLA. That was a long time ago, but I have been thinking more about the body and I have returned to history. However I have…
Three Bones Theory 