Optimal Tonus
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What are the feelings we share with other species?
Are there any that are ‘universal’?
In principle, these questions are both rhetorical and literal due to the improbability of finding any one specific answer. Operating more like a prompt, the starting point for this conceptual exploration lies in answering these queries through subjectivities i.e., through contexts, situations, interactions. Referencing sensory awakening –Optimal Tonus– takes its title from the book Sense Relaxation: Below your mind by Bernard Gunther: a text, filled with photographic illustrations where one can find exercises to relieve bodily and mental tension through instructive methods. In one of the chapters in this book Optimal Tonus is construed as “a dynamic concept in which the organism automatically adjusts to the amount of muscular tension necessary to perform (any) particular task”. It goes on to illustrate the example of the cat “sitting at ease, completely alive, eyes open or closed, breathing easily;…
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Optimal Tonus
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What are the feelings we share with other species?
Are there any that are ‘universal’?
In principle, these questions are both rhetorical and literal due to the improbability of finding any one specific answer. Operating more like a prompt, the starting point for this conceptual exploration lies in answering these queries through subjectivities i.e., through contexts, situations, interactions. Referencing sensory awakening –Optimal Tonus– takes its title from the book Sense Relaxation: Below your mind by Bernard Gunther: a text, filled with photographic illustrations where one can find exercises to relieve bodily and mental tension through instructive methods. In one of the chapters in this book Optimal Tonus is construed as “a dynamic concept in which the organism automatically adjusts to the amount of muscular tension necessary to perform (any) particular task”. It goes on to illustrate the example of the cat “sitting at ease, completely alive, eyes open or closed, breathing easily;…
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