Preface | p. ix |
Foreword | p. xi |
Being a Body | p. 1 |
What Is Physical Ability? | p. 1 |
Cultural Influences | p. 4 |
The Source of Improvement | p. 6 |
Accessing Body Intelligence | p. 7 |
Beginner's Body-Being | p. 9 |
Origins and Influences | p. 13 |
Mind Training | p. 13 |
Creating Insight | p. 16 |
Zen | p. 18 |
The Basics of Perception | p. 20 |
Three Aspects of Body Awareness | p. 22 |
Feeling-Awareness | p. 25 |
Awareness | p. 25 |
Feeling Is Foremost | p. 26 |
Intent, Impulse, and Feedback | p. 27 |
Feeling-Awareness | p. 30 |
Body-Being Basics | p. 31 |
Opening a Door-Five Steps to Transformation | p. 33 |
Enhancing Feeling-Awareness | p. 34 |
Barriers to Feeling | p. 36 |
Learning, Being, and Creating | p. 43 |
Learning to Investigate What's True | p. 43 |
Some Key Elements of Learning | p. 45 |
Questioning Self | p. 49 |
Being Your Body | p. 50 |
Body and Identity | p. 52 |
Two Domains of Feeling | p. 54 |
Creating Feeling | p. 56 |
The Principles of an Effective Body-Being | p. 63 |
A More Conscious Experience | p. 63 |
Student-on-a-Stick | p. 65 |
What Is a Principle? | p. 66 |
Insight | p. 69 |
An Object in Space | p. 70 |
Five Principles for an Effortlessly Effective Body | p. 72 |
Body Basics | p. 83 |
Structural Alignment | p. 85 |
What Is Alignment? | p. 85 |
Body Design | p. 87 |
Fourteen Points on Structural Alignment | p. 89 |
Being Aware of Structural Alignments | p. 91 |
Seeking an Effortless Power | p. 113 |
Using the Body Effortlessly and Effectively | p. 115 |
What Is Intrinsic Strength? | p. 116 |
A Discovery of Effortless Power | p. 118 |
Mind and Perception | p. 125 |
Changing Our Minds | p. 125 |
Noticing Perception | p. 126 |
Perception and Response | p. 129 |
Controlling the Mind | p. 133 |
Turning Perception into Feeling | p. 136 |
The Creative Aspect of Mind and Perception | p. 140 |
Mind, Perception, and Relationship | p. 144 |
Relationship and Consciousness | p. 145 |
Awareness, Relationship, and Interaction | p. 147 |
The Principle of Effective Interaction | p. 151 |
Increasing Relational Awareness | p. 152 |
Inclusive Awareness | p. 153 |
More Than You Need to Know About Consciousness | p. 154 |
Getting in Our Own Way | p. 158 |
Body-Being and Interaction | p. 161 |
Life Practice | p. 165 |
Study and Training | p. 165 |
Training | p. 166 |
The Body and Exercise | p. 168 |
The Body at the Office | p. 170 |
The Body at Labor | p. 171 |
The Body and Athletics | p. 173 |
Stretching the Body | p. 174 |
Body-Being for the Bodyworker | p. 176 |
T'ai Chi for Every Body | p. 177 |
Sex and Body Feel | p. 179 |
The Body and the Arts | p. 179 |
A Practice for Life | p. 180 |
About the Author | p. 183 |
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