Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning

The body and mature behavior—this is Feldenkrais’s foundational work of a creative genius. In the book, the author sets out the philosophical foundations of developing his extraordinary approach to human growth and learning, now known as the Feldenkrais Method. You will be introduced to the concept of a “whole situation,” and you’ll learn how to apply a systems approach to evaluating physical movement, thoughts, emotions, sensations, and the surrounding environment. “Our knowledge about what is biologically important is so meager that we easily accept as truth ideas that simply sound good. For example, right now we worship the idea of extraversion—so even smart people begin to think that a normal person is someone who is active, energetic, enterprising throughout their waking life. The result is a cult of exteriorization, which creates a new type of neurotics—destroying the lives of their children and wasting their own life in a pointless way.”