Kinesthesia: the creative condition for health communication
Abstract
Kinesthesia is a universal condition. It may be understood as the creative condition for all sense and sensibility. Kinesthesia operates as an enabling mechanism of “I can” and “I cannot”. Health communication requires a reconsideration of the situated communicative body and expression found in comparative East/West wellness practices. In order to accomplish this task, the exploration of whole and healthy require a different understanding, that is, that wholeness is a process of the interaction of body’s internal environment and external environment in rhythmic interplay of healthy/unhealthy, wholly/unwholly play. The articulation of the above will see that kinesthesis is the creative condition of maintaining and restoring health. It is through a phenomenology of kinesthesia that the fundamental dimension of health communication can be established as a science.
Santrauka
Kinestezija – tai universali būklė. Ji gali būti suprantama kaip kūrybinė visų pojūčių ir visų jausmų sąlyga. Kinestezija veikia kaip funkcijų „Aš galiu“ ir „Aš negaliu“ derinimo mechanizmas. Sveikatos komunikacija reikalauja iš naujo apsvarstyti komunikuojančio kūno būklę ir raišką, aptinkamą lyginamosiose Rytų ir Vakarų sveikatingumo praktikose. Siekiant atlikti šią užduotį, visumos ir sveikatingumo tyrimą reikia suprasti kitaip: vientisumas – tai vidinės kūno terpės ir išorinės aplinkos interakcijos procesas, vykstantis ritmiškos sveikatingumo / nesveikatingumo, visumos / nevisumos sąveikos žaismo sąlygomis. Minėtų dalykų pabrėžimas atskleidžia, kad kinestezija – tai kūrybinė sveikatos palaikymo ir atkūrimo būklė. Remiantis būtent kinestezijos fenomenologija, sveikatos komunikacija gali būti pozicionuojama kaip mokslas.
Reikšminiai žodžiai: kūnas, či, komunikacija, kūrybiškumas, kinestezija, tai či, daiktai, vientisumas.
Keyword : body, chi, communication, creativity, kinesthesis, tai chi, things, wholeness
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