Sunday, October 4, 2009

Movement and the Art of Projection

Disclaimer: This is somewhat of a speculative piece, albeit short.

Movement and the Art of Projection

Before each movement you project onto your inner mental visual space. When you move in outer visual space you project images onto what may be called physical visual space, which is located in your visual cortex and to a degree your eyes. The act of projection uses directed energy to alter a preexisting space. This shows itself in an increased in brain activity in the visual cortex, for instance. Basically the act of projection allows you to act on what you see or rather allows you to trace a path. People do it all the time but do not realize that is what they are doing. Like when I am typing out a page I can see the words on the white or I could see the words as images in the head space and use that to send images to my hands. When an artist draws a picture they see the shape in their hand before they move their hand. To be precise certain movements of the hand correspond to certain shapes. Their hand just follows the curve that exists inside their head.

Protection works by creating a mental image at a physical location in the body via attention, providing a pathway if you will for future movement to occur. This could be measured via looking at electrical potentials or looking at spontaneous photon emissions at different parts of the body. The ability to project surpasses the abilities of the body to move. You can project certain movements, but often the body can only approximate those movements. Eventually you are trained by observation of the body to only believe it can move in certain moves. This helps to result in a more responsive body, but could also result in you ignoring movements that you body could in fact do.

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