The 6th Congress of Exercise and Sport Sciences

The Mind Thinks Via the Body – Emotions in Motion

Nurit Cederboum
The Academic College at Wingate, Netanya, Israel

The lecture will deal with the presentation of an academic artistic session entitled ‘Talk to the body and talk within the body’, as part of the course ‘The language of art as a primary channel of expression’, a fundamental course in the art and movement therapy program at the Academic College at Wingate.

The session will present the link between verbal language, body language, movement, and creative activities, together and separately. We will seek to define in a number of ways the concept of emotions and examine how it is expressed within a creative activity that has multidimensional emotion and movement. The movement that the body creates expresses excitement, which produces a dynamic movement of emotions within intrapersonal and interpersonal pathways.

We will discuss the irrational processes that we all feel, those that do not necessarily obey the laws of logic and arise from the depths of the inner integration of emotions and thinking. It is a two-way and two-valued process – the creative processes stimulate the emotions and allow them to exist, and the product generated from this process evolves into additional emotions – a process of creation that stems from emotions and at the same time also generates emotion.

We would like to show how we combine spontaneous and intuitive processes with thought and organization processes in which we can, according to Descartes` approach, be “the master of emotions and manipulate them very skillfully”, an activity which beyond being emotional can also be called ‘intellectual joy’.

In this lecture we observe visual images, photographs and videos depicting the artistic activity for which we created a special room for creation as an ‘enabling environment’. We brought ourselves, ‘body and soul’; we acted with our bodies to create; we used our bodies as an object for creation.

In terms of the language of art we dealt with drawing and painting which are part of built-in thinking, ‘the intellect’, and a work of color representing the ‘emotion’ (Charles Baudelaire). A dialogue and discourse are created between a line and a stain that expresses this, thus insisting that the combination of logic and emotion reflects unity. As Damasio points out, “those structures within the brain that are biologically responsible for an emotional response are also necessary for cognitive processes to exist”.

Finally, we show how ‘the mind thinks via the body`, and integrates physical actions, movement and artistic activity.

Keywords: motion; emotion; body and mind; body language; visual language; artistic activity

Nurit Cederboum
Nurit Cederboum








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