'(An) unique perspective on how we can achieve maximum happiness and productivity...The Potent Self is a wealth of information.'-Yoga Journal

'A fitting capstone for an exceptional career.'-Spiritual Frontiers

'Deserves to be on the reading list of anyone interested in a holistic approach to spirituality.'-Commonweal

The author of Awareness Through Movement here explores the key factor in human resistance to self-transformation. Feldenkrais shows how the past can form the building blocks for a creative future, providing insights into compusion, resistance, motivation, habit formation, maturity, mental and physical fitness, and the place of sex in developing full human potential.

Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) is also the author of The Body and Mature Behavior and The Elusive Obvious, among other books, and originated the Awareness-Through-Movement method for increased health and heightened sensory awareness.

Edited by Michaeleen Kimmey

Contents

Editor's note
Preface
Introduction: Love thyself as thy neighbor
1 Human capacity
2 Spontaneity and compulsive action
3 Motivation and action
4 Resistance and cross motivation
5 Behavior and environment-Habit formation
6 The power of dependence and maturity
7 Reward and punishment-The absolute and the expedient
8 The origin of faulty posture-Faulty posture and action
9 Body and mind-A clearer picture
10 Action, inhibition, and fatigue
11 The aim of readjustment-Improving action
12 Correct posture
13 The means at or disposal-Volition and muscular tension
14 First general overhaul
15 About the technique
16 Physiology and social order
On sexual apprenticeship
Clarifying some notions
The vicious circle
17 The abdomen, the pelvis, and the head-Abdominal control
18 A little philosophy
Cross motivation
Premature ejaculation
19 Is there a way out?