In Feldenkrais lessons the speed of movement is achieved not through effort, but exactly opposite – elimination of parasitic effort and inefficiencies in organisation of the movement:
All the energy should be turned into movement and not into hesitation, holding, preparing and all that.
– Moshe Feldenkrais (ES1)
We improve speed through the mind, not through ‘athletics’, and this makes the method very accessible: if one has mind, one can use it to improve.
And if you need a bit more inspiration, here is a beautiful Portuguese poem on being in the body rather than in a hurry:
No, I am not in a hurry.
If I extend my arm, I reach exactly where my arm reaches – not a centimeter farther.
I only touch where I touch, not where I think. I can only sit where I am. This makes one laugh, like all truly absolute truths.
But what really makes one laugh is that we are always thinking about something else.
Vagabonds of our own bodies, always out of them because we are here.
Alberto Caeiro (1889 – 1915)
Acture FM 