#effort actions

[andieis]

I'm going to marry me a "to punch" guy.

[anactorsjournal]

My class told me I'm flick/dab and I am so okay with it.

I like the way that Annmarie introduced each effort action in pairs. Float is to glide; press is to ring; flick is to dab; punch is to slash.

I also find the theory that Emily mentioned at the end of class very interesting. Each of the pairs are segments of one another. They follow the same patterns and their major difference is whether or not the action is direct or indirect. Annmarie has asked us to visualize and observe people in the world to see if we can notice their natural habit in reference to these effort actions, but as Emily said, you can't place any one person in to just one category - they have to be at least a pair; If one person swifts lightly through free space they are either gliding or floating depending on their intention and intention is constantly changing within a person as obstacles become apparent. 

Eve's comparison of Slash and Punch was killer. We talked about the difference of grief and sorrow in Voice and Speech -- how sorrow tends to represent a longing, living place of sadness that is cultivated inside and one learns to deal with where grief is sudden, heavy, and uncontrollable (sorrow seems to live in the chest resonator and grief lives in our dan tien) -- and this same observation applies to slash and punch. Punch is a bound anger that turns violent and is full of tension, where slash is a more vulnerable and uncontrollable anger in the sense that one seems to be on the brink of tears.