Our body is Earth. “Our bones breath and blood are the minerals, air and water inside us, not separate but same”. When we go to a new place we soon become that place. By simply drinking water from\u00a0one\u00a0place\u00a0we transform 70% of our body into that place. We coevolve with this planet.<\/p>\n
Sitting is the new cancer. We apparently inhibit 90% of\u00a0our bodily movements. Movement is a way to understand our\u00a0interconnectedness with the planet. In gaining control of our body movement we are getting a deeper sense of what it means to be human.<\/p>\n
One of the most crucial skills that everybody has to learn is to be\u00a0present\u00a0<\/strong>in the moment. Unfortunately, we spend most of our days thinking about a conversation we had the day before or\u00a0wondering about what the next day might bring. We are so\u00a0caught up between past and future\u00a0that we forget to acknowledge the present moment. Andre taught us\u00a0three simple steps that can help us to be present: Another proactive skill\u00a0we should be aware of is\u00a0that we perceive everything around us through a lens. There are\u00a05 pairs of lenses\u00a0that we can put on, and depending through\u00a0which lens we look\u00a0will change the way\u00a0we perceive the world around us. Perception\u00a0can be an\u00a0important tool for balancing the autonomic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system\u00a0is responsible for the typically “fight or flight” response that kicks in when there is a potentially threatening\u00a0stimulus in our environment. The\u00a0parasympathetic nervous system\u00a0meanwhile controls homeostasis when our body is at rest. Digestion and healing for example can only occur when the body is in the parasympathetic mode.\u00a0The amygdala usually gets\u00a0activated in\u00a0fearful situations. A new stimulus might be potentially dangerous, we don’t know what to except and therefore novel information also\u00a0activates the amygdala, which results in higher level of alertness. This is interesting because performing artists can\u00a0use this biological knowledge to\u00a0maintain the\u00a0audience’s attention (present a new stimulus to capture the audience’s attention).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our body is Earth. “Our bones breath and blood are the minerals, air and water inside us, not separate but same”. When we go to a new place we soon become that place. By simply drinking water from\u00a0one\u00a0place\u00a0we transform 70%… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250192],"tags":[258850,258869],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1) Feel your connection to the\u00a0ground. A good way to start a conversation is to acknowledge the fact that we are all\u00a0standing on the same ground.
\n2) While maintaining the connection to the ground you also connect your mind to the space.
\n3) Breathing is key. Without sufficient oxygen we are not able to engage in thoughtful thinking. Andrea described the act of breathing as a love affair between our lungs and plants.<\/p>\n
\n1) Geological lens (billion years) parts of nature
\n2) Biological lens (million of years) plants, animals
\n3) Cultural lens (thousands of years)
\n4) Familial\/ancestral lens (hundred of years)
\n5) Personal lens (an individuals lifespan) personal moods and emotions
\nThe problem with that is\u00a0if\u00a0you are unable to change the different lenses. You might get\u00a0stuck and can only see what’s going on in\u00a0one lens. This considerably limits your understanding on what’s going on because you are unable to see the whole picture. By having the ability to skim through the\u00a0all\u00a0lenses we can reimagine our relationship with the planet. Isn’t it an incredible\u00a0thought that two people never perceive the exact same thing at the same time even though they might “see” or think about the same thing.<\/p>\n