Literature and truth

Its been one of those days, when starting to write just hasn't happened. Despite putting the whole day aside for my research write up, I have wasted it. In part because I am now wondering if I have done it correctly? Is it in truth what is wanted.In module one I was totally lost for 95% of the time; In module two I began to find my way and felt I knew what I was doing and made progress; Module three, well if I had written this Sunday morning, then I would be saying, yes I know where I am, yes I understand, yes the truth is out there. But this morning after the 8pm Skype session I am now once again lost.
We discussed several issues, focussing firstly on embodiment. I realise during the conversation that I still didn't really know what this was/is. I had previously thought embodiment meant recognising a feeling, an emotion, a movement  that we do because of what we loosely call muscle memory ( more accurately nerve association).

Current research suggests that the more memories are destabilized and re-stabilized in this retrieval   process, the more integrated into the cellular architecture and implicit the memory becomes. The old saying “practice makes perfect” bears weight – the more we revisit a memory, such as performing a plié, the more we strengthen the neural connections of that memory and the more deeply we integrate it into our bodies.     

Carolyn Hebert 2017. How we learn, retain and remember dance;Canada’s Dance Magazine

I now think that its about the body  holding knowledge, and that we as dancers can use that knowledge to apply to other things to understand the world which helps to identify our truths. 


 Dualism, (which was discussed yesterday as being an  imposed concept)  is the idea that mind and body are separate from each other. René Descartes (1641), suggested that the mind and body are different kinds of entities.


Varieties of Dualism: Interaction
Interactionism is the view that mind and body—or mental events and physical events—causally influence each other. ...


 During an early Skype session in my module one, I remembered that Adesola said that there are more than one truth. I didn't understand that either (at the time) but now I think I do. What we decide is a 'truth', is completely directed and associated with our world view; with which learning theories, feminist theories, knowledge theories, and all the experiences we have had. And as no two people are completely alike, and view things, take from situations, or simply see things differently, it follows they must have different truths. I see this as the link to the other topic we discussed at length, Literature and how we embody it in our writing. I use Literature to find out what other people see as the truth. I then use that to reflect against my own ideas or truths and see what matches or conflicts with it. Depending on how ideas resonate with mine I may adjust my truth.
I am currently trying to write up my truths about my research and to show how being a dance teacher, and being very aware of my body, has framed my views of what I am hearing, in comparison to what I have seen and experienced. I do hope this is a truth. Can you enlighten me further on either topic, and suggest any literature which may help with my research topic of the value of mirrors in the dance studio?