The article presents the fifth principle of the Feldenkrais Method, which emphasizes minimalism in movement for optimal sensory differentiation. Doidge highlights Moshé Feldenkrais's insight that gentle, slow movements promote better brain responses to subtle changes. The nervous system can easily become overwhelmed by intense stimuli, hindering fine discrimination. Instead, the Feldenkrais Method encourages learners to engage with minimal force, enhancing awareness and coordination through improved sensitivity. This approach fosters deeper learning and reorganization of habitual movement patterns, affirming the efficacy of nuanced practices in neuroplastic learning.
The intentional use of small-scale stimuli encourages learners to feel more deeply, detect variations, and reorganize habitual movement patterns.
When you reduce the force of your movement to a minimum, you increase your sensitivity and become aware of things you didn't know existed.
Moshé Feldenkrais's profound understanding of how the nervous system perceives, processes, and integrates change underpins the principle of differentiation.
Doidge emphasizes that the brain responds best to slow, gentle movements and the smallest detectable differences for optimal learning.
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