Being Human

Empathy.

Difference.

Presence. 

Wholeness.

Bradley’s article is about fish, but it’s also about being human, I think. 

Umwelt is a word German biologist Jakob von Uexkëll created to mean “the surrounding world.”  As Bradley points out in his article, “Do fish dream?”, a fish’s surrounding world is fundamentally different from ours: subaquatic and fluid.  Is there something enlightening for us in trying to understand their world?

How might it change me to try to imagine someone else’s umwelt?  

I see this as my work and my responsibility teaching Voice and the Alexander Technique, and as a therapist. 

Even if I don’t get there, how might I be changed by the process of listening, receiving, seeing, feeling, trying to understand someone?  

How might this receptivity support my student or my client?

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