The BODY as INFORMER
Accord, Communication, Cell Signaling, Indicator
Muscles, Innervation… and known be the experience of body, triggered by
structure, form, balance, stress, the full province of consciousness.
The artistry of our anatomical structure was indeed
fully embraced by Leonardo da Vinci. How is a body constructed for movement,
for survival, for life itself? Is there a ‘measure’ of man? By what divinity
are proportions created? How is form and function aligned? Wherein
lies the embrace of grace, spirit and beauty? Man as divine proportion, as
sacred geometry, as living spirit, as the art of BEING, are expressed in
da Vinci’s drawings, paintings, depictions, constructions, illustrated dissections.
The depth of his knowing, his inspired exploration, his brilliant discoveries,
his ever questioning genius, have been given unto us, indeed as the ART of
BEING.
To understand the body, its calling for nurturance,
support, awareness, is to understand the very workings of our everyday
existence. Every pain, every discomfort, ever illness, every disease, is the
body calling for reappraisal, for change, for balance. And so we look to
nutrition, to exercise, to relaxation, to massage, to what brings joy,
satisfaction, goal and purpose. The body is reactive, reactive, reactive…
Health and wellbeing are the result of responsiveness to the reactive body.
By the understanding of the very responsiveness of
specific muscles and innervation points, one can bring an informed awareness of
what the body is signaling. The Deltoid Muscle, as an indicator muscle, is used
to measure the presence of, or obstruction of, energetic flow. The Deltoid Muscle located on the outer aspect
of the shoulder is recognized by its triangular shape. It was named after
the Greek letter Delta for the similar shape they both share. The deltoid
muscle is constructed with three main sets of fibers: anterior, middle, and
posterior. These fibers are connected by a very thick tendon and are anchored
into a V-shaped channel. This channel is housed in the shaft of the humerus
bone in the arm. The deltoid muscle is responsible for the brunt of all arm
rotation. It is also tasked with stopping dislocation and injury to the
humerus when carrying heavy loads. One of the most common injuries to the
deltoid muscle is a deltoid strain. Deltoid strain is characterized by sudden
and sharp pain where injured, intense soreness and pain when lifting the arm
out from the side of the body, and tenderness and swelling caused by, and
located at, the deltoid muscle. Pain and/or weakness of the deltoid muscle is
not only an indication of physical injury, but is a responsive indicator to
stress and/or trauma, real, remembered, perceived, or imagined.
The BODY as INFORMER… this the science and the art of
direct body biofeedback.
Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS FABI
The Academics and the Arts
APOGEE Paradigm™
Tappan, New York
Founder/Director APOGEE Acu-Tone™
Vibrational Sound Therapy
845-359-9056
1-866-Acu-Tone
rmr@apogeelearning.com
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c. 1200, Greek letter
shaped like a triangle, equivalent to our "D," the name from
Phoenician daleth "tent door." Herodotus used it of
the mouth of the Nile, and it was so used in English from 1550s; applied to
other river mouths from 1790.
word-forming element
meaning "like, like that of, thing like a ______," from Latinized
form of Greek -oeides, from eidos "form,"
related to idein "to see," eidenai "to
know;" literally "to see," from PIE *weid-es-, from
root *weid- "to see, to know" (see vision).
The -o- is connective or a stem vowel from the previous
element.
1741, in deltoid
muscle, so called for its shape, from Greek deltoeides "triangular,"
literally "shaped like the letter delta;" see delta + -oid.
An added WORD...
As I view anatomical images, with the eye and the heart and soul of a da Vinci, I am instantly brought to the wondrous, the miraculous, the commune of parts to whole... this ever the door to SELF...the substance of the art, the science, the breath of BEING ...
~Rose Marie Raccioppi
