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"Every
activity involves movement, and every movement, however gross
or subtle, has an organizing process. This organizing process
is based on the biological law that muscles contract and that
contraction is followed by elongation.
Muscle
action has a tidal function. Muscle elongates and contracts;
it expands and shrinks. This rhythm of expansion can be either
small or all-encompassing, a micro-tide or a macro-tide of different
muscles states called tonus. In the continuum of muscular movement,
there is sometimes more tension, sometimes less.
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The
tide alters but never stops. All activity, even inhibition,
involves this organizing process of movement. An understanding
of the organizing process is essential in learning how to do
things differently because the muscle tonus can be altered by
the neural centers of the synaptic junction of the spinal cord,
or through higher brain synaptic junctions.
All sensations, all emotions, all thoughts are, in fact, organized
patterns of motion. By altering basic muscular pulsatory waves,
people manipulate their emotions or develop physical stress
patterns."
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