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Our Whole-Body Intelligence Is Our True Intelligence
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Why in education do we not currently, nor have we ever, assigned the same and equal value and status to the physical body as we do to the mind?
Why do we have a model that assigns exclusive dominance to this mind?
The current model of education exclusively values the mental activity of the mind and, because of this, the only part of the body that is valued is the brain. This is attributable to the scientifically endorsed perception that it is the brain enhousing this mind.
This cerebral intelligence compartmentalises knowledge and learning, reducing our intelligence exclusively to the skills of recall and thought processes. Under this model, education is all about gathering information, facts, mental constructs, hypothesised theories and knowledge.
This singular emphasis on mental intelligence excludes any awareness of our whole-body intelligence.
However, the debate of their being at least two sources of intelligence, and which of these two truly serves us – whole body or brain centred—has roots that go well back into our history, at least to the time of Pythagoras.
Is there truth in what the ancients have presented, that our whole-body intelligence is the doorway to a mind that accesses an intelligence that is vastly grander than, and way beyond, the current model’s definition of intelligence… and that this is our true mind?
This being the case, why is the physical body and its whole body intelligence not the foundation of our current education system?
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