Not So Fast on the Moodscape

Yes, I want to expand Feldenkraisian awareness to include all of interoception, not just proprioception, so I will draw your attention to changes in your mood—for instance, there can be a mood shift when you go from a foveal to a peripheral gaze. Tracing the foveal/peripheral shift is one way to track how movement, awareness and mood arise together (or maybe 'give rise to each other'). That level of attention may even be a way to encourage your whole organismic system to recalibrate. In this approach, you may find your mood (and all that goes with it) to be more influenceable.

But just as not everyone is sensitive to proprioception, not everyone conjures up visual images, not everyone can deploy sound as a way of knowing where they are in space—not everyone feels their mood. In the case of images, the afantasia person might be able to see blue, but not imagine blue. With alexithymia, the person has the mood but has trouble relating that mood to a physical sensation or physical analog.

If you have alexithymia or afantasia, I hope you'll consider taking my classes, maybe because I'm interested in moodscapes and imagery but mostly because I respect that people are so, so different in how they make sense of, and predict, internal signals. Every class is a learning experience for me as (I hope) for my students, and if you sense your internal world differently than others—what a great opportunity for us to explore that. What do you attend to instead? How does this relate to movement? What gives you a sense of being right with the world? Let's find it.