Using Your Self?

Using your self: it's kind of an odd expression. But it just really means how you use your body, or, more simply, how you move. (And, let's face it, everything you do involves moving yourself. After all, even the most dedicated couch potato needs to breathe.)

Now, you'd probably think that how you use your body has something to do with your muscles, bones and stuff like that. You'd be right, but there's something more basic going on behind the scenes with your brain and the rest of your nervous system.

How you use your self depends on a large degree on the image you have of your moving, sensing, feeling self that's stored in your brain. What's exciting about this is that the brain-stored image turns out to be very changeable, meaning that however you use your moving self can change, sometimes dramatically. Mind and Brain and Phantoms in the Brain are two of the many books that explain this a lot more clearly than I can in a few paragraphs here.

So, Working in Movement looks at everyday happenings from this perspective.