Monday, March 15, 2010

Day 11: A New Perspective

We have a guest trainer for the next two weeks, Alan Questel. He's wonderful, but I'm not going to write about him now. I just want to write down some food for thought that came from him.

One of the less talked about purposes of Feldenkrais is to make it possible to like yourself more, not to the point of thinking you're perfect, but to understand what you already like about yourself, and discover what else could be improved and how. If you think you're completely perfect, you can't grow. If you entirely hate yourself, you also can't grow. There has to be some balance and space for learning.

Alan considers it his job to create that space and help people learn to like themselves more. Can we all have such noble goals in our careers?

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