He also notes the difference between spontaneous and compulsive actions. A compulsive action is habituated even when it isn't a conscious choice. A child learns to play the piano when he or she wants to be out with friends. A compulsion is formed when we are performing to gain someone else's approval and not out of our own internal need, motivation, and desire. The struggle comes in with the goal orientation.
Adults are likely to focus on accomplishing the goal while ignoring the process.
They need to go back to the baby-like state of being at play, he says. The Feldenkrais method is a field of exploration of the ways in which we organize ourselves in gravity. People learn how their body functions and feels and are able to make different choices about how they use themselves, sit, stand or walk. According to Arkin, during a Functional Integration session the Feldenkrais practitioner inputs stimuli into the nervous system or the motor cortex of the brain through gentle functional movements and the person responds with a motor response. It means they use themselves differently.