Charlotte Selver, Vol. 1. Sensory Awareness And Our Attitude Toward Life
Collected lectures and texts. Containing:
Sensory Awareness and Our Attitude Toward Life; Sensory Awareness & Total Functioning; Report on Work in Sensory Awareness & Total Functioning; To See Without Eyes…; On Breathing; On Being in Touch With Oneself
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With her work, "Sensory Awareness", Charlotte Selver had a deciding influence on the "Human Potential Movement", which also came out of the Esalen Institute, where she taught as of 1963. Because of that, she also had influence on Humanistic Psychology and the therapies based on it. Aspects of her work, especially the conscious sensing of the body and the following of physical sensations (Sensory Awareness), flowed into many of the methods of physical work, physical therapy, physical psychotherapy and psychotherapy which still exist today.
Charlotte Selver touched and encouraged thousands of people in the USA, Mexico and Europe in her 80 years of work, among them influential personalities, such as psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, the Zen philosopher Alan Watts, his teacher Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki and the founder of Gestalt therapy, Fritz Perls, as well as Moshe Feldenkrais, Ida Rolf and others who taught at the Esalen Institute. Because of that, she indirectly made a central contribution to physical therapy.
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In our work of Sensory Awareness, we experiment with all the simple activities of daily life, all the things which we have been doing since we were bom, or which we have learned in our earliest infancy, such as walking, standing, sitting, lying, moving, resting, seeing, speaking, listening, etc. As Elsa Gindler said, "Life is the Playground for our work."
Our daily life gives us opportunity enough for discovery: in combing our hair, washing the dishes, in speaking to somebody, and so on. In such "unimportant" areas of life we can experience the same attitudes we have in "important" areas, where we are often too absorbed to feel clearly what is happening.
Although practicing Sensory Awareness often has therapeutic effects, it would be a misunderstanding to think of our work as therapy. Our purpose is not to make living healthier, but to make it more conscious; not to make it happier, but to let it come more into accord with our original nature. The more we arrive at our original nature, the more we discover that healthier and happier living and relating comes about by itself.
We begin to discover that experiences within the organism are parallel to experiences in life. This can be difficult. Often we may find ourselves full of fear, not wanting to allow changes. Through experimenting, we may come face-to-face with the reasons for previously unexplained problems in our lives. But with growing ability to permiit what becomes necessary, our elasticity grows, and so does our security. We cannot know how much energy we have as long as we keep interfering with our own activities. We cannot know our real abilities until we have freed ourselves to such an extent that they can unfold more fully. As Elsa Gindler used to say, "If we would have the strength at our disposal that we use in hindering ourselves, we would be as strong as lions."