A friend pointed me to this video recently on the ‘Fuzz Speech’, looking at ‘fuzz’  that builds up in the fascia, that movement and stretching helps to break down. In this video, (where we get to look at parts of cadavers, which is always cool,) Gil Hedley speaks the importance of movement, particularly with injuries as over time, the buildup of this fuzz limits range of motion and fluidity.

The friend who posted it pointed to using this as metaphor for lines of development, with lack of motion, stretching and attentiveness we can build a ‘fuzz’ that makes movement in a particular line more difficult.

The emotional line is a favourite of mine and so to lay this metaphor onto it, what happens when we don’t stretch and move within our own emotional field? If we aren’t in active practice with experiencing and expressing our emotions, not only do we fail to gain more range of (e)motion, over time, the buildup of ‘fuzz’ around our emotional selves that’s left untended can actually limit and close us off in relationship to other lines and areas of life.

When reading the comments after this video, Gil introduces his background and interest in anatomy which I found fascinating. Here it is:

“My Ph.D. is in Theological Ethics from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. My exploration of anatomy for the past 20 years has been part of my belief that the voice of the body should be heard in the realms of ethical discussion, so I should listen to what it has to say. I make no pretensions of being a scientist. Science to me is another religion among many, whose dogmas I am attempting to shed. I am a student of life. Thank you for watching!”