AY #120: The feet

We interlace our fingers all the time. Have you ever wanted to interlace your toes? If so, this lesson is for you. Try this: stand in bare feet; pick a foot, any foot. Leave the big toe on the floor and lift the four smaller toes. Now leave the four smaller toes on the floor and lift only the big toe. If you can do that (really do it, not sort of do it, but really do it), you might as well skip this lesson, but if you found it difficult (or as I did, utterly impossible) this is most definitely the lesson for you. The lesson can be done by anyone except maybe those with foot pain or injury. It's an excellent demonstration that what we do is work with the brain. It became completely obvious that the reason I couldn't differentiate the lifting of my toes had nothing to do with any muscular or skeletal problem. My brain simply couldn't figure out how to make it happen. I'm looking forward to doing this one several more times.