A loved one (also knitter) sent me a beautiful article by Patricia Adamopoulou.Her interesting theory is the following .... The average rhythm of the movements made by the knitter is about sixty per minute.Like heartbeats, more or less.So it is possible that the attraction of knitting is exactly due to what Desmond Morris points out in his book "The Naked Monkey": human records indelibly in his life the rhythmic memory from the heartbeats . Perhaps during its existence inside the body of the mother, the growing embryo becomes fixated ('imprinted') on the sound of the heart beat. If this is so, then the re-discovery of this familiar sound after birth might have a calming effect on the infant, especially as it has just been thrust into a strange and frighteningly new world outside. If this is so then the mother, either instinctively or by an unconscious series of trials and errors, would soon arrive at the discovery that her baby is more at peace if held on the left against her heart, than on the right.Into adult life the phenomenon seems to stay with us. We rock with anguish. We rock back and forth on our feet when we are in a state of conflict. Wherever you find insecurity, you are liable to find the comforting heartbeat rhythm in one kind of disguise or another. Here again the sounds and movements take the performers back to the safe world of the womb.And with knitting we do something similar.Maybe we integrate into a series of identical movements that explicate the rhythm of the heartbeat.And this is magic....🥰 • #yarnspirations #knitterslife #outdoorknitting #knit #instaknit #knitpro #knittingismymeditation #yarnlife #knitting #knitagram #knitknitknit #instagram #yarnlove #yarn #creativelifehappylife #ificanttakemyyarnimnotgoing #knittersgonnaknit #makersgonnamake #knitandbehappy #knitacholic #knitsharelove #shareyourknits #ravelry #knittersofravelry #ourmakerlife #weareknitters https://www.instagram.com/p/CJtGLKnJHOd/?igshid=1qt204bbv48uj
