nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

exerciseBody surfaces and boundariesStand up legs slightly open so that your feet align roughly with the width ofyour shoulders. Loosen your knees without bending them much. Loosen yourshoulders. Choose a comfortable standing position, with your hips centred onyour body axis. Head straight up, arms hanging on the sides. Breathe slowlywithout forcing. Concentrate on the soles of you bare feet, and on the contactwith the floor. Close your eyes if you feel it helps you to concentrate. Feel thepoint of contact between the push of the floor and the push of your weightagainst it. Feel the different and uneven points of pressure on your soles, thetalons, the plant, and how they relate to the weight and gravitational pressureof different parts of your body.Slowly, from the breathing, begin to visualise/feel how the air that you areinhaling (cooler) and exhaling (warmer) has consistence too, inside your bodyand against your outer skin. Feel the air surrounding you as a body touchingyou, as if you were standing still at the bottom of a container filled with water.Wake up your whole body to the contact with the ground and with the air, feltas another body coming into contact with yours.Relax. Open your eyes. Move about the space, touch an object, a person,and sense the difference.180