In this authentic movement session, I felt like a child. I forgot all that I had previously stored in my mind about what movement should look and feel like. I erased my previous experiences of life and my stresses about the future. Maybe this is what my earlier evolutionary self is like. Simply being; not planning, thinking, or critizing. I was finally able to fight my mothers earlier in life warnings to: "act, not react..." to stimuli. I stopped planning my next actions and simply reacted to feeling and sensation. I reacted to things inside, outside, and around without thinking about them. My new childlike self didn't care that I was being watched, but was aware of being watched. I moved when I felt like it, smiled if I had the urge, and withdrew if I felt threatened by other loud or close movers. My reactions were controlled by urges with absolutely no command from my conscious mind and I loved it. I know there is a time and place and humans may be at an advantage for being planners with 12 step cognitive processes, but the release and freedom of reaction are what makes the interactions of animals so beautiful and intruiging to us. Although authentic movement can bring us closer to this state of being, I still find myself wondering if there is a way to truly get there. To be as our earlier evolutionary self.