Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Barbee's Law of Motion and E-motion




My weekly deep yoga class this week got me thinking about emotions and how we store them in our bodies. It is a common ideology that humans store emotions in various parts of our bodies over the years. Different parts of our bodies are more susceptible to this storage based on usage of muscles and proximity to brain (making the neck and shoulders ripe for emotional pack-ratting).
In a way this is a defense mechanism, or merely an adaptation for dealing with emotions that humans have developed. Through physical activity, especially yoga, we have the capacity the stir these emotions up which can be a good thing or a not so good thing depending on what kind of conglomeration your stew pot of bodily emotion is comprised of. I'm sure you've noticed when you're doing physical activity of some kind that at times you may feel happy, frustrated, excited, elated, grief, confusion or a cocktail of any of these and more. This is your life resurfacing itself and forcing you to deal with it in one capacity or another. There are even arguments out there which would assert that the storage of too much negative emotion can lead to mental illness or even cause cancer.

This got me thinking about Newton's Laws of motion and The Law of Conservation of Energy. You remember that one from high school Physics class, right. The law that says that matter is neither created nor destroyed. Basically, meaning that all energy and substance in our world is constant and remains in some form or another. Theorists have long used this as evidence for reincarnation and ideas about constancy of the soul, and I would argue that it also supports this idea that our emotions are constant within our bodies. If we can assume that this is true, then we can assume that the entire body is comprised of emotion woven deeply into each muscle fiber and strand of fascia. And if this is true, then we can also assume that for every motion that one exerts there is an equal and accompanying emotion. Boom! Newton would be so proud.

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  1. I like this very much. There are several posts that are in my favorites. This is one of them.

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