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image from "Introducing Biological Rhythms" by Williard L. Koukkari and Robert B. Sothern

"...a rhythm is a change that is repeated with a similar pattern. Actually, change, not constancy, and the rhythmic timing of change, is the norm for life. For example, throughout each 24h day, leaves change their orientation, human body temperature rises and falls, fungi time their sporulation, and activity levels fluctuate. These rhythmic changes of life represent only a small segment of an enormous network of biological rhythms, passed from one generation to the next. All known variables of life, be they levels of potassium ions in a cell, stages of sleep, or the opening and closing of flowers, have either directly or indirectly be found to display rhythms. Furthermore, adaptations of organisms for survival relative to geophysical cycles, such as the solar day, seasons, and tides, attest to the evolution of the genetic aspects of certain types of rhythmic timing."

in "Introducing Biological Rhythms" by Williard L. Koukkari and Robert B. Sothern

"(...) vitality involves vibration and all exchanges both physical and psychological involve rhythm.

(...) movements call up the basic rhythms of the body: autonomic functions such as breathing, peristalsis; voluntary actions such as sucking, defecating, sexual activity. (...)

Thinking about rhythm may be the key to thinking_feeling* the qualitative aspect of pleasure_vitality*.

For Daniel Stern, vitality affects are non-categorical affects; they form the unnoticed background pattern of life. The elusive qualities of these feelings are best captured, he says, by dynamic  kinetic terms such as surging, fading away, fleeting, explosive, decrescendo, etc. Following Susanne Langer, he suggests vitality affects are forms of feelings intimately connected to the vital processes of life: breathing, sleeping, waking, etc..."

Susan Best in "Lygia Clark, Bodily Sensation and Affect: Expression as Communion"

(* _feeling: added by Catarina, _vitality: added by Catarina)


"All psychological phenomena can be considered as manifestations of energy, in the same way that all physical phenomena have been understood as energic manifestations ever since Robert Mayer discovered the law of the conservation of energy. Subjectively and psychologically, this energy is conceived as desire. I call it libido, using the word in its original sense, which is by no means only sexual. ["Psychoanalysis and Neurosis," CW 4, p. 567.]"

Carl Jung in "Selected Writings"



"Shadow Song" by Meredith Monk