From our childhood on, we gave a name to our body image and its features; what’s more we started identifying ourselves to this image. These concepts, once they were noticed, have been classified into good and bad ones, then they have been described, appropriated, adjoined, experienced. These accumulations have more or less crystallised themselves as defence or aggression mechanism. Thus, the so-called body is only a series of sensations which have been conditioned, fixed into our memory and have become patterns. Therefore, these conditionings prevent our body from operating in harmony.

This results in well-known sensations such as twitches, tensions and contractions which you are sometimes aware of and that you regard as being the self. In fact the person identifies to it.

What we find out about ourselves starts with what we know, that is to say what we perceive. These perceptions must be accepted in an unprejudiced attitude with no reference to some past, some already known experience: overall impersonal care, state of unintentional attention. We let our perceptions flow into clear and conscious attention and avoid dispelling it onto a part of our body.

The word acceptance may result in conveying the impression that we are giving up something. In fact there is nothing to be given up. Acceptance is opening up.

Movements, postures aim at arousing unused or dispelled energies to convey them intentionally towards orchestration where our body achieves complete relief. As regards breath, we have to bring it back to its original state. Any attempt from driving our intention into a length of time or into a direction must be kept away.

Breath is not restricted to the ribcage but it takes up the whole surrounding space. The body no longer has limits and breath feeds the overall limitless sensation. This approach results in arousing all our inner virtual energies and it makes them become present. They are spread up and down and they drive all our structure towards verticality. Then, we are thrust into a kind of silence devoid of any projections. Silence is experienced in identity with our body whose finest variations are listened to. They tell us about its story, like a waterfall or a flying bird we would listen to. we can feel our subtle body as if it were vacant, flexible and dynamic. Energies are unfurling uniformly into space.

                                           Extracted from J. Klein’s writings

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