How do we sense time?
Until now, brain researchers have searched in vain for an internal clock that controls our perception of time. New findings now suggest that our body perception plays a central role in this: self-perception and time experience are apparently inseparable. For example, when we focus on our breath and body presence, our experience of the subjective passage of time slows down. In the flow experience, on the other hand, our sense of time is lost. When dancing, much like when intoxicated by drugs, my sense of time obviously changes. I expand the sense of time with the breath and the body. Time morphs, it gathers, it becomes permeable, then it loses itself again....
movement tasks
bring the Animal Moves into standing
my feet planted deep in the ground
legs grounded, supporting
the upper body free to explore fluid expressions
articulate through all joints
without fragmenting or isolating
crawling into the joints
expanding them, moving in a spiral
leaning from the vertical in different directions
expand everything around a central axis
find counter traction, counterbalance
a game between letting go and aligning
when I move a part of my body
the whole body moves with it
like an organism in water
like an octopus
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