Composing Experience

Perceiving and interacting with the world around you — a Feldenkrais perspective

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More thoughts on Autonomy

June 8th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Awareness, Choice, Feldenkrais, autonomy

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Understanding Feldenkrais

My previous post on Empowering Autonomy has generated interesting and worthwhile comments, pointing out areas where my meaning and sometimes my thinking were less clear than they could have been, or where I could usefully expand on something. These comments seem to bear out my earlier observation that we each understand the world through our [...]

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Awareness and Attention

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Awareness, Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Perception

The Perceptual Process model describes the information flows we use in the composing experience. I want to shift focus now to look at some of the ways we manage that information. Two major processes through which we do that are awareness and attention. As a simplistic first approximation, we might say that awareness makes information [...]

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The Somatic Dimension

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Action, Choice, Effort, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process, somatic organization

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Perception

So far we’ve been looking primarily at the perception of information impinging on you from the outside world. But human experience involves more than that. You are a physical being, with a physical body that moves through space and interacts with the world around you, physically and in other ways. You assess situations, make choices, [...]

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Memory and Expectations

December 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process

This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Perception

Past experience and what you learn from it play a significant role in shaping your perceptions and your current experience. The examples we’ve looked at so far make that clear. That’s why you could recognize things like faces and vases, characters like B and 13, and four suites of playing cards — two red and [...]

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The Importance of Context

December 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Choice, Perception, Perceptual process, contains video

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Perception

I’ve described composing experience as a process of selecting and assembling bits of information from an ongoing perceptual stream into the multidimensional images we use to experience the world around us. The familiar faces/vase figure provided one example of how using information from different parts of the perceptual stream can produce different experiences, while the [...]

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