Abstract: There are many conceptions about the body-mind according to an one`s philosophical views and interpretations based on different culture, religion, tradition, and academic disciplines. These different concepts of body and mind have influenced various aspects of human lives. The status and role of physical education and sport have been significantly affected by the interpretation of the body-mind relationship. The concept of the relationship between body and mind has an intimate connection with `knowing and experience` in physical education. In recent centuries, there have been philosophies regarding the unity or totality of the mind-body and the holistic concept of the body-mind experience in Western culture. In Western philosophy, there have been attempts, including existential, phenomenological and somatic approaches. These approaches provide us with theoretical and practical guides for an understanding of the human being`s body-mind experience. The phenomenological and somatic approaches are fundamentally differently from those which hold traditional dualistic conception of body and mind. I believe that the following characteristics of phenomenology and somatics promise to provide significant insights to the field of physical education and sport : the wholistic notion of mind and body, the analysis of the lived body and the body-mind experience, and the nature of somatic process as self-sensing and self-regulating.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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