Emma

Our brains evolved primarily for action, not abstract thought:

https://anshadameenza.com/blog/human-development/embodied-learning-principle/

As neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert explains: “We have a brain for one reason and one reason only—to produce adaptable and complex movements. Movement is the only way we have of affecting the world around us… Everything else—thoughts, emotions, memories—can be viewed as serving this ultimate goal.”

https://anshadameenza.com/blog/human-development/embod

The “embodied learning” principle suggests exactly this: that truly effective learning engages the whole person—mind, body, and environment—in an integrated experience. This approach recognizes that we aren’t floating brains but complete organisms whose understanding is fundamentally shaped by physical interaction with the world.

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“In a culture where there is a morass of second-hand chatter, we need to mind our hearing; otherwise it becomes dull and deaf to the voice of what is real and beautiful.”

John O'Donohue,Beauty

Without beauty, truth becomes blind and can be turned into a blunt and heartless imperative.

When we hold beauty and truth together, truth will always have a sense of compassion and gentleness.

Sometimes the so-called ‘facts of a situation’ actually tell us little or nothing about the heart of an experience.

Only in the light of beauty can we come