From an ego-centred perspective to a movement-centred perspective

Dear friends,

At the time your body was born, it was nothing more than an expression of eternal life, taking the particular shape of that tiny, fragile, naked body, being breathed by Life itself, as it still is now.

That body didn’t see itself as separate from its surroundings, from its mother, from the sounds, smells, light and colours it was born into — let alone look at itself and call it ‘my body’.

We’ve learned to see this body as ‘my body’ — after we’ve learned that what we are is something separate from the sounds, smells, light and colours we were born into.

And that learning, which made us see ourselves as separate from the world, as a person that can own things — a body to start with — happened through language. Embedded in our culture, our language has a way of putting things that shapes our experience.

While actually, there is only experience. Other cultures and other languages shape different realities. Our Western languages are focused on the individual, the possessive. They are categorising, and make us believe there is such a thing as linear time, with past and future.

Other (indigenous) languages focus on the collective, on interconnectedness, on processes, and don’t see linear time but eternally returning cycles. Their languages are not noun-oriented, but verb-oriented (or predicate-oriented). They first see what is happening, the movement, and then optionally mention who/what is involved.

So, right now, you could see that ‘reading is happening’, rather than ‘I am reading’. Go about your day and see all the movement happening, with that body involved or not. Notice the breathing, listening, blowing, watching, shining, sitting, standing, feeding, drinking… and let go of identifying with the doer. It’s all just happening. It’s all just Life itself being experienced.

Moving Language is all about self-realisation by exploring how language determines our experience of reality, and finding out how that can be different.

Loving, thanking, being, dancing,

Living