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When your body and mind feel separate, your mind wants to go up, your body wants to go down. There's a battle taking place inside you, two energies trying to dominate each other. The energy inside seethes, struggling to get out. You're a volcano with only limited ways to vent off your seering hot magma. If you don't find a path to channel your energy you'll explode...
So a time is set, a place of privacy designated, room to move allowed, and the appropriate music engaged. And you invoke the KATSUGEN flow.
At first, your body feels like a rock, a statue, a mechanical robot...yet inside you know you're a living, breathing, feeling creature made of soft tissue, supple muscles and dynamic life plasm.
You want to break out of the robot shell, to burst the inhibiting bonds of the statue's mold. You're tired of acting in set ways, to treading tired, old, familiar steps. You sense that your body was created to be moved in millions of free-form patterns, yet the constraints of society has shackled you, has chained you to a mere shadow of physical freedom. Then, like a flower, your natural creative energies emerge.
As you become connected to the movement, the cares and concerns of the mundane world disappear. Your mind quits badgering your body. There is no PROPER way to be. PROPER becomes irrelevant. There is no PACE to keep. PACE is not of the now. Self-consciousness detaches itself from SHAME and INSECURITY. SHAME and INSECURITY is an illusion.
Bit by bit, the plaster from the statue falls. Plate by plate the robot's shell disassembles. Then, like the petals of a fllower, your natural self unfolds.
The music leads you to move: your body yearns to sway. You sway. Your arms and hands want to move of it's own accord. You let it. Your feet has a mind of it's own. That's fine. YOUR BODY KNOWS. You let it be, keeping your mind on the music, not on your body.
The beat of the music urges you towards dance moves. But NO. You don't dance. Dance moves come from the mind and it only makes you self-conscious of your appearance. The katsugen movement of your body is for your body, no one else. Not for observers. Not for your own mind. You let your body set the pattern. Your mind is detached. It does not tell your body anything. It does not say make little movements, make big movements, move happy, move sad. It says: Be Free.
The movement escalates. Your body moves in ways it never did before. Gravity is a help, not a hindrance. Floors and walls are supports, not obstacles. Like a child you enjoy the movements of your body, swaying with the ethereal forces of your body's aura. Movement transcends thought, expressing exactly your relation to time and space. Time stands still. Space becomes tangible. You move in harmony with the All. There is peace in motion.
A great big desire to breathe overtakes you. You open your mouth. A huge yawn fills your face, a yawn such as you've never experienced before. It's as if you have finally awoke from a long sleep. Tears come into your eyes. Your nose runs. Then a shudder fills your entire body. An awakening happens. It is as if your whole body is yawning, taking in the fresh new air of physical freedom.
You realize that your body is truly alive. Your body loves you.
The movement continues until your body is satisfied; then the desire to move gives way to the desire to rest, and it is time to close the movement.
Your body once again becomes attached fully to your mind, yet now, there is a better fit. More of a willingness on your body's part to become an intergrated whole. It is easier now to shoulder the armor with which to face the rigors of living in this society.
For your mind loves your body. It will allow it freedom from time to time. Which allows your body to love your mind. It will do as your mind bids, with little complaint, out of that love. There is no longer the necessity of the dictatorial domination of your mind over your body.
The battle between your body and mind has ceased.
You are one.
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