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This article describes a key teaching strategy in BIM. By reframing actions as expressions of underlying beliefs, it is possible to set up movement experiments to test those beliefs.
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Embodying Power and Love: Moral Education
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Body Numbness as the Root of Child Abuse, Family/Social/ International Violence and Environmental Degradation. <br />Body Awareness as the Key to Moral Education, Global Change and a Humane World. (1994 paper)
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INTRODUCTION
Such seemingly different problems as interpersonal and international conflict, ethnic or gender prejudice, drug abuse, family violence and child abuse, and environmental degradation are all very similar in one crucial way. From my perspective on body and movement awareness education, all these problems are branches on the tree of body numbness. Whatever else may be involved in these problems, body numbness is a necessary condition for their existence, and body awareness training is a crucial component in their solution.
The Distress Response in Aikido, Trauma Recovery, and Peacemaking
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When people feel threatened or challenged, they typically contract their breathing, posture, movement, and attention. Contraction makes actions effortful, inefficient and awkward, and it reduces the ability to think flexibly and function calmly. The distress response can be overcome by constructing a body state of relaxed, alert, compassionate expansiveness.
The Distress Response in Aikido, Trauma Recovery, & Peacemaking
Somatic Literacy: Bringing Somatic Education Into Physical Education
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An examination of the scope of body awareness training, starting with stress management and movement efficiency, moving through emotional self-awareness and interpersonal awareness, and ending with conflict resolution and environmental education. Includes an extensive case study description. 6000 words.
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Originally published in Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, September 1994.
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SOMATIC LITERACY: BRINGING SOMATIC EDUCATION INTO PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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Copyright © 1994 by Paul Linden. This article is copyrighted by Paul Linden; however, it may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-commercial uses as long as the complete article, including contact information and this copyright notice, are included. This article originally appeared in the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, September 1994.
Power and Sensitivity: Body and Movement Awareness Training for Musicians
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An examination of structural processes of breathing and posture as the foundation for strain-free movement and expressive performance. 7000 words.
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Originally published in American Music Teacher, October 1992.
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POWER AND SENSITIVITY: BODY AND MOVEMENT AWARENESS TRAINING FOR MUSICIANS I have worked extensively with musicians who wished to develop greater body and movement awareness. They came to me because they felt they were not performing up to their potential, and generally they were they were experiencing anxiety or physical strain in their performing. Almost always their specific performance difficulties were expressions of more fundamental problems in their styles of movement and their ways of being.
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Copyright © 1992 by Paul Linden. This article is copyrighted by Paul Linden; however, it may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-commercial uses as long as the complete article, including contact information and this copyright notice, are included. This article originally appeared in the American Music Teacher, October 1992.
Embodying Power and Love: A Somatic Method of Understanding Violence and Teaching Peace
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A somatic approach to understanding violence and teaching peace. 3000 words.
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Originally published in Perspective (the newsletter of the Association for Humanistic Psychology), December, 1998.
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EMBODYING POWER AND LOVE: A SOMATIC METHOD OF UNDERSTANDING VIOLENCE AND TEACHING PEACE
What is violence? What is harmony? How can human beings overcome their violent urges and learn to act in harmonious ways? Though such questions are often the subjects for philosophical, psychological or political discussion, I would like to describe a way of examining them somatically.
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Copyright © 1998 by Paul Linden. This article is copyrighted by Paul Linden; however, it may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-commercial uses as long as the complete article, including contact information and this copyright notice, are included. This article originally appeared in the November 1998 issue of Perspective, the magazine of the Association of Humanistic Psychology.
Applying Being in Movement with Sexual Abuse Survivors
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A detailed examination of powerlessness as the root cause of many dysfunctional coping strategies employed by abuse survivors; and a detailed description of body awareness, breathing, posture and movement training for developing power and compassion. 15000 words.
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Appreviated version originally published in <i>Somatics</i>, Autumn 1990.
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APPLYING BEING IN MOVEMENT® TRAINING WITH SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVORS INTRODUCTION Since 1987, I have done a lot of body/movement work with survivors of child sexual abuse and incest. I have found that the method of somatic education that I have developed aids the growth of self-awareness and the process of healing for survivors. It is a useful complement to psychotherapy as well as an effective approach on its own. In my practice, body/movement work is for me a process of learning to feel and understand the internal consciousness map of one's body.
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Copyright © 1990 by Paul Linden. This article is copyrighted by Paul Linden; however, it may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-commercial uses as long as the complete article, including contact information and this copyright notice, are included.
Law and The Body: Body Awareness Training for Stress Management and Performance Enhancement
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An article examining body awareness training as a way of helping both lawyers and their clients function in more effective and healthful ways under the stress of legal proceedings. 2000 words.
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unpublished
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LAW AND THE BODY: BODY AWARENESS TRAINING FOR STRESS MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT
Legal procedures are by their very nature stressful. Courtroom and conference room confrontations over issues of life, death, property and liberty are the modern, urban equivalents of fighting off wolves in the forest. The body awareness method I use for teaching stress management and performance enhancement would be especially useful for lawyers and their clients.
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Copyright © 1999 by Paul Linden. This article is copyrighted by Paul Linden; however, it may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-commercial uses as long as the complete article, including contact information and this copyright notice, are included.
The Second Stage of Safety: Body Awareness Training for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
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An examination of the role of powerlessness in the lives of abuse survivors, and a brief description of body awareness training as a path to empowerment. 3000 words.
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Unpublished. Paper delivered at the 1998 Renfrew Center conference, in Philadelphia.
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THE SECOND STAGE OF SAFETY: BODY AWARENESS TRAINING FOR ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE
What is safety for an abuse survivor? What is the difference between feeling safe and actually being safe? Is safety in the professional helping relationship the same as safety outside of that relationship?
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Copyright © 1998 by Paul Linden. This article is copyrighted by Paul Linden; however, it may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-commercial uses as long as the complete article, including contact information and this copyright notice, are included.
Winning Is Healing: Body Awareness and Empowerment for Abuse Survivors
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Article originally published in the proceedings of the 2002 conference of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. An examination of a systematic training process for abuse survivors; developing awareness, learning empowerment, and applying new skills in daily life. 9000 words.
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WINNING IS HEALING: Body Awareness and Empowerment for Abuse Survivors
An Experiential Workshop for the 2002 Conference of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy
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Copyright © 2002 by Paul Linden. This article is copyrighted by Paul Linden; however, it may be freely reproduced and distributed for non-commercial uses as long as the complete article, including contact information and this copyright notice, are included.