38 Moving

“Rollin, rollin, rollin,
keep them doggies going”

Rawhide, TV Show theme song, sung by Frankie Laine 

Symbols and Color

• Horse – Chess Knight: Warrior Set
• Center of Concentric Rings: Centers Group
• Penny: Ordinal Orientation
• Clubs: Action Axis
• Border Color: Red – Warrior Set

Interpretation in the Upright position or Positive Pole.

Your body is the oldest instrument of sensation you possess. It detects smells and waves of energy surrounding it and make adjustments to motions to account for it. Physical Centering is materially oriented and thus a transfer of energy into something that causes a tangible result. Surfing was a means of travel before “fun”. This surfer rides the energy of the wave in order to minimize the use of his own. The irony is that the less energy he uses himself, the more effectively captures and uses the energy of the water. The measure of true productivity has always been the reduction of wasted energy producing the smoothest possible flow of motion.

Card messages in the Illuminated position.

+ Productive

(responsive, exertion, ambling, attuned, poised, pouncing, active)

1. Focused action can bring about productive outcomes. When one’s body is engaged one’s ability to sense space is enhanced and precise movement is more likely.
2. Pay attention to your movements. How are you using your body? Do you drag it around or employ it like a tool? 
   
3. Get kinetic! Sometimes just moving your body will stir the kind of energy you need to get going.
4. Keep your health and your balance. It is the surest way to be most productive. Strengthen results by conditioning yourself.
5. Religious beliefs assert something like ‘the body is the temple of the spirit.’ A lovely idea equating your own living organism to a sacred object worthy of respect and care. Be kind to your body and nourish it, strengthen it, and rest it when necessary. Your spirit will be most available to you when your body is most healthy, nurtured, and groomed.  It is more than just physical appearances.
6. You have an energy management issue/challenge going on. Contrast the quality of your work with the quantity. Was the output worth the energy spent? You can alter the balances next time, but for now, you must work with the product.
7. Breathe! Your mind and body need a moment of refreshment. Go get some fresh air. Take a walk.
8. Your physical health is foundational to your well being, vitality and ability to achieve. How is it?
9. Movement is the key to staying alive. But motion, for its own sake may pass time, but it does not pass muster. Have some purpose to your gestures. Exert a bit. 
10. Trust that when your body feels alive, you are on the right track. Pay attention to your senses.

Quotes Illustrating this Pole

•  “Movement never lies.” Martha Graham American Dancer – Choreographer
  
• “Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.” Patricia Fripp
• “Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.” Floyd Meriweather, Jr. 

Implications in the Reversed Position or Negative Pole

Life force drain is a powerful reality check. Whether it is physical pain or poor management of your daily hygiene or energy. Vitality may be wavering but it also maybe completely erratic. In this image of overlapping bolts of lightening, there is much energy, but it is moving undirected and as for unproductive purposes, wasted. Static is energy moving in all directions at once.

Card messages associated with Shadow position.

– Frenetic

(ADD, hyperactive, manic, morose, reactive, impetuous, clumsy, rambunctious)

1. It suggests also assessing whether you are spinning your wheels and actually getting somewhere. Well, how to you evaluate your progress? 
2. Frenetic energy is hyperactive like the chicken with its head cut off! Motion without direction is frantic and often exhausting to everyone who is caught in the whirlwind. Now is the time to stop and think where the frenzied feeling comes from?
3. It appears as if someone is bouncing all over the place. Settle down!
4. If you are just spinning your wheels, doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome, you are stuck in monotony. Sometimes, an occupation that demands repetition of behavior produces this outcome. Yet, many rely on their jobs for a livelihood. If you have to do the same this over and over, then try and bring a new attitude or approach to have you do it.
5. Someone is bouncing all over the place. Is it you? Settle down. If not, baton down the hatches so something doesn’t get broken.
6. Get in your body! Some pain is being avoided that needs tending to. Avoidance will only result in further problems.
7. A body in motion can be as unnecessary and as exhausting to watch as someone caught in the cycling of a bird on a tether flying in circles. Take a rest. Scout your position. Try and break free before you break down.

Quotation Illustrating this Pole

• “You are going to be inside your own skin until you die, you might as well get comfortable with it.” Anonymous
• “The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human… Perhaps more than in other periods of history, our time is in need of that genius which belongs to women, and which can ensure sensitivity for human beings in every circumstance.” Pope John Paul II
• “I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.” Mark Slouka

Overleaf of the Michael Teaching

The Moving or kinesthetic or Kinetic Center is the third chakra and serves as the focal point of motion and thus activator of the physical body.  It is Ordinal in that it functions in a mechanical and foundational way for the human animal and need not provide a doorway for higher awareness.  In a behavioral sense, this person may have a great need to be in continual motion. And if circumstances allow it, that outlet might take the form of workaholism.

Pavlovian reactions are somewhat common for the Moving Center person especially early on. While most everyone reacts to a loud noise or something delicious on the stove, just like the dog in Pavlov’s experiment, the Moving Center person is likely to have a strong visceral response, not just say a memory or pleasant emotion.  This type of response is not limited to a Moving Center person, but this type of reaction originates within the Moving Center in everyone.

Associated with the primary focus of learning through sensation and movement. A favorite of many athletes this centering does not enhance one’s sporting performance per se’ just the likelihood that they will find an outlet in sports. Moving Center persons do not lack intelligence but rather their ability to comprehend is greatly enhanced when they can interact or do the task themselves. Touch is particularly important for the Moving Center person as is the need to “try it out for themselves.”

One feature of this centering is a bias toward flexibility: both physically and in options. The Moving Center presence might even be seen in someone who has a bit of a rubbery face or stretchy covering to their skin. It indicates this tendency in their actual physiognomy. When a person finds themselves in the negative pole of this center, they can be equally morose and hypertensive. Their is little in the way of a balancing point for them and as such their energy is scattered and erratic. Quite often, people here are stuck in a “act first, think later” cycle.

Essence chooses to focus a person’s learning through the Moving Center when it desires more experience living through the sensations of the body. Breathing techniques like those in yoga which combine exercises to gain awareness of the condition of one’s vehicle, can bring us closest to our animal selves and ground us in a way that brings us into the present moment. This state of being is the optimal way by which a person may align themselves for action and center themselves with clarity.  If a soul has been overly traumatized emotionally, or stuck in the ramblings of mental activities in prior lives, then choosing this Center aims to reorient the personality through the physical. Thus, he/she will have  a realistic sense of their physical energy and them an optimal sense of stamina given their Body Types, Soul Age, and Karmic augments.

Famous Examples:

Jim Carrey, Mae West, Lucille Ball, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Owens, Sandra Bernhardt, David Byrne, Marlon Brando, Brittany Speers, Cher, Julia Child, Elvis Costello, Sean Puff-Daddy Combs, Teddy Roosevelt, Prince Diana, Bob Dylan, Road Runner, Serena Williams, Adolf Hitler, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Gere, John C. Riley, Pee Wee Herman (Paul Rubens), Nikita Khrushchev, Bette Midler, Mao Tse Dung, Paul Newman, Chuck Norris, Sean Penn, Yoko Ono, Mary Lou Retton, Gertrude Stein, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Tina Turner, Malcolm X, George Washington, John Wayne,

Cultural Meaning

In the modern era, the Moving Center has taken two seemingly diametrically opposed stages: the beautiful and cut Adonis’s and Aphrodite’s, and the human body in decline  as a part least in use but most important to return awareness to.

The first reference of course, refers to the almost obscene attention paid to the physical form as a commodity and imagined as some pure form of health and superiority. Genetic engineering, cosmetic surgery, super diets, and the fitness industry are all off shoots of this cultural manifestation of Moving Center fixation.

On the other hand, and more significant to the vast community of human beings, the proliferation of knowledge-skills (those favoring the Intellectual Center) are fast becoming, in industrial countries at least, the predominant way we work for a living. Thus, unlike every other creature on Earth, our bodies face increasing disuse and atrophy in ways that affect our health care, quality of life, and the shrinking of sensory awareness. With machines replacing natural physical labor, (a good labor saving thing by most reckoning) it nonetheless diminishes most people’s access to natural exercise, making regulation of weight and other bodily systems stretched to the extreme. As virtual technology continues some futurists predict, the degree to which people will employ their bodies or have authentic sensory experiences will decline.  And as the song 2525 by Zager and Evans warns us, “Your arms are hanging limp at your sides, Your legs got not nothing to do. Some machine is doing that for you.”

The test of balance for human beings is to continue to be aware of the average use of the body and the homeostasis available when one partakes directly in the common body we all share: the playground of the Earth.

You might be Moving Centered if…

1. As a kid, you couldn’t sit still in class.
2. Learning for you was always best if you could do it yourself.
3. You like the feel of things in your hands.
4. If you are shopping, often the texture of something serves as a keen indicator of it’s qualities or desirability.
5. You feel an inordinate desire to move your body like dance, run, or stretch.

by Stephen Cocconi ©2011, Updated 2024

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