They may have been on to something. Feldenkrais
(A Swiss? physicist) who developed a technique for 'talking' or at least interfacing with body, the thought, "I want to move ___ by using just ___ muscles -- v e r y .. s l o w l y".
Even those too injured (trauma from auto accidents, for ex.) could mentally go through the exercises, with a certain amount of 'energy' via being in a group performing the exercises.
I know one such person (car hit her) - who was pronounced to be a permanent basket case. She could barely move *anything*. Just present on a gurney and doing the exercises mentally, at first. She is today lithe as a mime. (It helps that she was a runner, even an obsessive-athlete prior) She also teaches Feldenkrais now. I'm learning too that, however improbably, (always as deemed by the smartass logical mind):
it works.
(If... You are willing to pay attention and work, too - that is) No magic pill.
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