How do our patterns of movement and sleep interact? Seminal Fourth Way authors G. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky describe how unnecessary movement and sleep–our old patterns–pose obstacles for one seeking consciousness. 

P.D. Ouspensky, from A Record of Meetings: 

The Role of the Moon in Mechanical Movement and Sleep

At present all our movements depend on the moon. We cannot move one step without the energy of the moon. Moon is like a weight on a clock. If the weight is cut, all movement stops. All our mechanicalness depends on the moon.

As we are never still, we must learn to remember ourselves in movement, not only sitting still. Practice in the most difficult circumstances.

George Gurdjieff, from Views from the Real World

Movement for Man is not Volitional

[M]an is not capable of even the smallest independent or spontaneous action. The whole of him is nothing but the result of external influences. Man is a process, a transmitting station of forces… The whole universe is like a chain, and the earth is one link in this chain. Where there is movement, there is life.

It is an illusion that our movements are voluntary; in reality they are automatic. Our thoughts and feelings are equally automatic. And the automatism of our thoughts and of our feelings is definitely connected with the automatism of our movements. One cannot change without the other.

Work on Attention through Studying Movement

Question: How can we gain attention? 
Answer: There is no attention in people. You must aim to acquire this. Self-observation is only possible after acquiring attention. Start on small things. 

Question: What small things can we start on? What should we do? 
Answer: Your nervous and restless movements make everyone know, consciously or unconsciously, that you have no authority and are a booby. With these restless movements you cannot be anything. The first thing for you to do is to stop these movements. Make this your aim, your God. Even get your family to help you. Only after this, you can perhaps gain attention.

[O]ur organism produces a definite amount of energy for its existence… But since our life is so wrong, we spend the greater part and sometimes the whole of it, and we spend it unproductively. One of the chief factors consuming energy is our unnecessary movements in everyday life. 

What we intend to do requires a great deal of energy and much effort. And effort requires much energy. With the kind of efforts we make now, with such lavish expenditure of energy, it is impossible to do what we are now planning to do in our minds.

When you sit doing nothing, let the body sleep. When you sleep, sleep in such a way that the whole of you sleeps.

Habits Reinforced across the Lower Centers

We do not recognize to what an extent the intellectual, emotional and moving functions are mutually dependent, although, at the same time, we can be aware of how much our moods and emotional states depend on our movements and postures. If a man assumes a posture that corresponds, in him, to a feeling of grief or dejection, then within a short time he will actually feel grief or dejection.

Knowledge of the Laws of Nature

Everything is in motion. No motion follows a straight line but has simultaneously a twofold direction, circling around itself and falling toward the nearest center of gravity. This is the law of falling which is usually called the law of motion. These universal laws were known in very ancient times… From the most ancient times people knew how to use and control these laws of Nature. This directing of mechanical laws by man is magic and includes not only transformation of substances in the desired direction but also resistance or opposition to certain mechanical influences based on the same laws. People who know these universal laws and know how to use them are magicians.

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