Arts Therapies work with the body and its dimensions space, time, gravity and attachment; the body and attachment being some of the most important healing factors of the arts therapies. This lecture will look at the way the body gives birth to and symbolizes space and time. Spatial directions are built upon the body as their center point and have symbolic meaning for men. Rhythm partitions time and serves for self-expression, expression of vitality, and communication. Gravity serves to organize and express feelings and ideas about the self (e.g., strength, control; the bond to myself), and attachment organizes feelings for and the bond to others (love; transcending space, time and gravity).
I will speak on six envisioned dimensions that built upon one another. The first three are spatial: horizontal, vertical and sagittal plane, spoken from our embodiment/the perspective of our body; the fourth is temporal (time), Thomas Fuchs has written quite a bit on that one. The fifth is gravity: it is about moving bodies; for the human realm: weight, self/ego; strength, self-propelled movement; and the sixth is attachment, it transverses space, time and gravity, it is about love and you/thou; it transverses the ego, it has a truth of itself, it has a physical, chemical and biological necessity – our genuine human dimension.