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When I teach Composing Experience in workshops, I often begin with a direct experience illustrating how strongly your unconscious choices can affect your experience — even in situations that seem clear and straightforward. This is one of those experiences. The situation is one in which you put one hand on your forehead and hold it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Perceptual process'
Composing different experiences
November 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Action, Choice, Effort, Perception, Perceptual process
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The Perceptual Process Model
October 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Choice, Perception, Perceptual process, somatic organization
Think of experience as having two primary components, perception and action. Perception includes those processes through which you know yourself and the world around you — vision, hearing, proprioception (body awareness, balance, position in space, movement), intellectual and intuitive understanding, etc. Action encompasses what you do to interact with that world — getting a drink [...]
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“Composing Experience” describes life
September 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Effort, Perception, Perceptual process
Life presents us with an ongoing stream of experience — with experiences of situations and events, of interactions of all kinds with our environment and the other people in it. These experiences are multidimensional, involving visual images, sounds, physical contact, sometimes smell and taste. We attach emotional reactions to them. Some experiences feel good; we [...]
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Choice and Experience
September 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Action, Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process
Choice and life are intimately intertwined. Life presents us with choices, and the way we make those choices determines how we experience life. Some high-level choices seem big and in the foreground, like choosing a career, or a mate, or where to live, or what U.S. foreign policy should be. We give those choices a [...]
