The Psychophysical Method is a very potent, and also pleasurable, approach to improving human health and functioning. Grounded in subtle and sophisticated understandings of the workings of the human mind-body system, it offers adventures in self-exploration and self-understanding, while moving the person closer to an optimal use of self.
Briefly the Psychophysical Method...
- Facilitates movement and generally improves the organization of the musculoskeletal system.
- Brings the body image into better correspondence with the actual physical body. With almost all people living under present-day conditions, there are many and serious discrepancies between the body image, or body as sensed, and the body as it actually is, leading to movement impairments, excess tensions, squandering of energy, and other mis-uses of the mind-body system.
- Corrects distortions fo the kinesthetic sense, also almost universally present, and makes conscious many actions which people do without being conscious that they do them.
- Teaches awareness and use of mind-body interactions which are also typically unconscious and so beyond self-regulation.
- Demonstrates the fundamental importance of awareness as the ground for autonomy and health, and also its therapeutic functions. Greatly increases awareness of self and world.
- Because of the interrelationship of movement, sensing, thinking and feeling functions, all of these functions are benefited by Psychophysical Method exercises working with movement primarily.
- Disinhibits blockages in the brain's motor cortex, thus enlarging the movement repertoire and releasing muscular and some other inhibitions.
- Re-educates the nervous system and requires qualitatively high-level use of the brain's right hemispheric processes--processes notoriously neglected by academic education.
- Gradually establishes permanent capacities for self-correction and self-regulation of body mechanics, posture, mind-body interactions, release of muscular tensions and movement impairments, elimination of excessive use of force, and many other improvements, leading to a better integrated and more effective use of the mind-body.