Hi Feldenkrais Students,
Following is an article in it’s entirety written by Moshe Feldenkrais. I picked out three sentences that I think, summarizes Moshe’s definition of health, from his article:
“In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised.”
“…a healthy person is the one who can live his unavowed dreams fully.”
“The outstanding difference between such healthy people and the others is that they have found…, that learning is the gift of life. A special kind of learning: that of knowing oneself.”
I hope you are enticed to read the article in full, now. I highly recommend that you do. I think it will leave you pondering.
My next workshop, “Dynamic Sitting in Chairs”, will be on Sunday, August 9, 2009 from Noon – 3 pm. Save the date! I will give you more details later.
Sincerely, Donna
“A healthy person is one who can live fully his unavowed dreams.”
A few years before World War II, I was teaching judo to make a living while working at the Sorbonne with Joliot-Curie for my doctor’s degree in Science. One of my pupils turned out to be a hunter of wild animals in Africa, and he invited me to his house where I was left alone for a few minutes. I was startled when a lion walked in and came over to lick me. It had been brought to Paris as a cub and had grown up into a real lion.
A few months later the lion was taken by the police to the Paris Zoo. The lion had gone into the street and an old lady with a little Pekingese dog and dim eyesight, mistaking him for a big dog, chased him through the streets with her umbrella. After refusing food and drink for about ten days, the lion died in its cage. I have shortened the story by omitting the details.
Now there was a healthy animal that died, obviously due to an emotional trauma. But what is a healthy animal? If a healthy lion dies ten days after a sudden change in its life, what is health?
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