Summer session #2
Today discussion turned to the language of Alexander and our favorite word - inhibition. I think there is a lot more going on here than most of us think and right now the place where I am at finds it all to be rather circular. There was a demonstration of dropping a cup into someone's outstretched hand and the non-doing, non-cerebral, automated response of the hand closing around the cup - this being inhibition. Then further talk of everything from heart beating to fluid moving through us being inhibition, that inhibition is nothing we actually have to find or do it is already built into us. Of course, this moved to the example of a small child; the (what we perceive as adults as) dawdling, the natural exploration, the looking without looking for an end, the non-doing doing. Which led to talk about how parenting quelches that as we force our children into schedules and regimens and life and look at what we've done to them and to ourselves! I thought, yeah...that...
