[Your Voice - XXI]
Ideas don’t change lives…
Unless they connect to context (real life scenarios).
I can listen to lectures all day about neuroscience, exercise, the negative effects of addictions, civil engineering, or religious conversion. Those lectures will not in any measurable way influence my rational thinking, cholesterol levels, smoking habit, or religious adherence. Until those lectures speak to the headaches I feel, walk me through a stretching and jogging plan, or give me alternatives to cigarettes, the lectures merely vanish. If they speak practically to my world, engagement is natural. Change is possible because my context—not just my cognition—is engaged.
Ideas don’t change lives…
Unless they connect to bodies (felt in the flesh).
A teacher can explain concepts for hours while I sit and listen. I may take notes, doodle, or stair at the ceiling. Either way, my life remains constant, and most likely I'll resent being forced to sit and pretend to engage. If those concepts connect my real-world sensations with a lesson, or invite me into a scenario I can feel, I don’t have to be coerced or threatened. I’m enveloped into a place I can feel, touch, and explore. The learning happens naturally. Change is possible because my body—not just my mind—is engaged.
True Voice engages both context and bodies.
