there's always time to think again and reconsider...

think it through

Movement visualization has been used by many elite athletes, dancers and musicians to improve performance for a long time.  Science has been interested in the effects of visualization on physical performance since the 1920s.  Although there have been conflicting results, research has left no doubt that imagery can improve physical performance.  Here is a brief summary of some interesting results.

Numerous experiments have shown that people can increase their physical skills by imagining themselves practicing the skill.  For example, in one experiment two groups of people were taught a series of notes on the piano.  Neither group had ever played before.  One group practiced playing the notes for five days, two hours a day.  The second group simply imagined playing the notes for the same amount of time.  At the end of the experiment, the imagining group had improved almost as much as the practicing group.  In fact, they had completely caught up after two hours of hands on practice.  Further, their brains showed objective changes in the neurons that control the skills.  How is this possible?

-- Todd Hargrove
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"While walking, the body and the mind can work together, so that thinking becomes almost a physical, rhythmic act."

-- Rebecca Solnit

Physical Thinking

"We are all experts in 'physical thinking', we all have a body right, and we all know what that body feels like in the real world..."

--Wayne McGregor A choreographer's creative process in real time

Image by Katrien de Blauwer

Thought

"Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life...my precept is, 'Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.""

--Elizabeth Gaskell North and South

thought

What one thing do you do for yourself each day, just because it makes you feel good?

I take time before leaving the house.  I'm not naturally a morning person and I really don't like being rushed. Ever. So on a daily basis that means waking up with enough time to stretch a little, shower (mostly ; ),  prepare a proper breakfast, drink coffee,  put on an outfit (rather than “any old thing,”) put on jewelry and perfume.  Even on the days I teach at silly'o'clock.
It's important to me and it means I greet the world ready.

be kind to yourself, you're wonderful. 

I once had a thought

I once had had a thought
About a thought I once had had 

About whether it was natural
For nature to seem so natural, 

Whether there was a Man in the Sun
Who steadied the sun with levers, 

Pulleys, and gears, and if so whether
He ever managed not to be there ...

Rowan Ricardo Philips, from 'Abingdon Square Park' (beautiful.)

Image: beauchamping: Detail of Gulliver's Mushroom.

thought for the day...

thought for the day...

image by Marc Johns

I once had had a thought
About a thought I once had had 

About whether it was natural
For nature to seem so natural, 

Whether there was a Man in the Sun
Who steadied the sun with levers, 

Pulleys, and gears, and if so whether
He ever managed not to be there ...

 --Rowan Ricardo Philips

from 'Abingdon Square Park'via here
image from golden gallery.