Connection in Body - Internal Awareness
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- When you dance and your body feels really connected,
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- it's a really satisfying experience as well
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- as being better dance.
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- Uh, but it's a tricky thing to develop.
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- And so here's an awareness exercise. You could do something.
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- For example, you lift your arm
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- and if we just lift arm, let's lift this arm.
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- If I just lift my arm like this, uh,
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- then really I'm not aware of
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- how the arm is connected to the rest of the body.
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- I'm just like, oh, look, there's a joint it's coming up.
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- On the other hand, if when I lift the arm,
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- I can feel the way that it pulls my body
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- or the way that my body has to counterbalance, right?
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- If I don't do anything and I lift on arm, oh, timber,
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- then I go falling off the chair, which you can't see.
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- Um, but on the other hand, if as I lift the arm,
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- I can pay attention to what happens in my low back,
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- you know, I have to do something
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- and you say, oh look, my arm and back are connected.
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- Or maybe as I lift my arm,
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- I can feel like my shoulder gets a little tighter
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- and I say, well, do I need to be tighter?
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- How does my arm, the raising of my arm relate to my neck?
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- It's not actually independent.
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- You know, I can put my mind on my back
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- and you can even help like I just did with your hand.
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- You can put your hand on your back
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- and say, as I lift my arm,
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- do I feel any change in the muscles of my back?
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- And you will, you will.
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- And as you put your attentiveness then on this system
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- of, of low back and hips and mid back and neck
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- and shoulder, all these things
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- that are connected to your lifting your arm.
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- And you can hold them all with your mind,
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- feeling the interconnectedness
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- after you work on each of these things.
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- And then what happens is it makes your arm
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- more connected to your body.
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- And then you can start to go the other way.
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- You can say, well, what if I don't start my arm
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- by thinking about lifting my arm?
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- What if I think about my hips
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- and my low back as I lift my arm?
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- And can I feel both things at the same time?
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- My arm and my hips and my low back? Freeing of the neck.
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- And I'm saying this with lifting the arm,
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- but you could actually do it with, uh, with anything here.
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- So you can see the chair, right?
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- So you can do it in a chair. There's the evidence.
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- Um, but you could, you don't can do it
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- with any motion essentially.
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- That, uh, is outward. It's just easier with an arm.
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- And so you can do it standing too.
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- You can sort of lift, lift your other arm so you're not,
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- not asymmetrical.
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- And here I feel it in my shoulder,
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- but now I can feel, oh, there's the shift
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- that might want to happen.
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- Or there's a counterbalance.
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- What am I doing with my center to go the other way
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- to take the weight of the arm, play
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- with this kind of awareness exercise.
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- And then after you play with it, go back back
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- to the mapping exercises.
