Feldenkrais Lessons Freshen Your Attention

When I ask you 'how is your weight distributed on your sit bones?' I care. A little bit. But mostly I care that you ask the question of yourself, that you exercise and refine your superpower of shifting and prioritizing your attention.

This is where Moshé Feldenkrais was so tricksy: the novelty, the shift from variation to variation, the interruptions, the imagination, going slow… all of it to mix up the stickiest habits you have: the 'meta-habits.' These are the habits you use to pick what information you allow yourself to review freshly and what information you process by rote or dismiss entirely.

I say I 'sort of' care where your weight is because what I mostly care about is that you 'sit' with the question. It doesn't matter what the answer is. You will have exercised your attentional superpower.