DAVID LIND (from previous post)
...you CAN feel the downward "force" - try it. From where you are
right now, notice the "pressure" you feel on your seat (i'm assuming)
and then notice your shoulders - is there not a feeling of being
pressed down?
Jonathan B. Marder wrote:
I feel an UPWARD force on my buttocks. I feel nothing pressing on my
shoulders.
David Lind responds:
Try this out - the upward force you feel is the yin to the yang of
the
downward pressure that your body feels. The fact that you sense it
only as upward pressure (IMHO) is less because that's the only
pressure and more to do with an inability to sense the other. Many
of
the actors I work with initially have no "sense" of their bodies.
(warning - generalization about to occur) Americans tend to be
"floating heads" - all their focus on their thoughts, little or none
on their bodies. Much of my work involves getting actors to get
connected to the idea that they DO have a body and to be aware of the
sensations felt by this body.
This would explain the fact that you do not feel any pressure in your
shoulders. As I sit here, I feel a sensation that my body is being
pulled downward. And this is not the pressure on my buttocks - it
can
be felt throughout the body - if one listens for it.
Jonathan B. Marder wrote:
Let me ask David and Glenn a question:
Supposing the ground you are standing on suddenly gives way, and you
fall a long way (like Alice). Now that you are falling, and there is
no longer any force on your feet (or buttocks), has gravity ceased to
exist?
David Lind responds:
Hmmmm....seems like a trick question. In the above, are we to
discount the sensation of falling? The feeling our body moving? The
sensation of falling is just as indicative of the "force" as the
pressure on the buttocks/feet/etc.
Now if you had said we were in the space shuttle and there was no
longer any force on our feet... :o)
It's All Good
Shalom
David Lind
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