Man's supreme inheritance : $b Conscious guidance and control in relation to human evolution in civilizationAlexander, F. Matthias (Frederick Matthias)
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Man's supreme inheritance : $b Conscious guidance and control in relation to human evolution in civilization
When it is explained to such a pupil that inhibition is the first step
in his re-education, that his apprehensive fear that he may be doing
wrong and his intense desire to do right are the secrets of his failure,
he will invariably endeavour to prevent himself from doing anything, by
exerting force usually in the opposite direction. And so he creates a
second harmful force which, in conjunction with the first, serves only
to increase the undue physical tension and to intensify the already
exaggerated apprehensive condition. The fundamental principle in the
re-education of such a subject is the prevention of this undue and
unnecessary apprehension. He must not attempt to remedy any defect by
“doing something” physically in accordance with his sensory
appreciation, which is the outcome of his erroneous preconceived ideas
and incorrect psycho-physical experience. His reasoning power is
dominated by his sense of feeling where his psycho-physical self is
concerned, so that he cannot even attempt to carry out any physical act
excepting the one he _feels_ to be right, despite the fact that by his
reasoning faculties and practical proof, he knows that his sense of
feeling is misleading and is the outcome of erroneous preconceived
ideas. We must therefore make him understand that so very frequently in
re-education the correct way to perform an act _feels_ the impossible
way. There is only one way out of the difficulty. He must recognise that
guidance by his old sensory appreciation (feeling) is dangerously faulty
and he must be taught to regain his lost power of inhibition and to
develop conscious guidance. The teacher must with his hands move the
pupil’s body for him in the particular act required, thereby giving him
the correct kinæsthetic experience of the performance of the act.
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