The Five Reaches of Movement

When I hear the word movement, I picture walking somewhere: a trail, a trip, a change of address. That is one kind. A person or a group can also move through five reaches, each wider than the last, without going anywhere at all.

Picture a dozen olders and youngers gathering in a library meeting room to talk about a neglected park down the street. Let's follow them through each reach.

Physical movement, the first reach, happens within. Bodies arrive, chairs scrape, someone raises a hand. Nothing has been said yet, and everything that follows rests on this.

Mental and emotional movement, the second reach, moves outward. A thought becomes words. An older says she misses walking there, and a younger admits he never knew the park existed. A feeling stays private until someone gives it a voice the room can hear.

Soulual movement, the third reach, happens between. The olders and the youngers start trading stories, and each learns something about who the other is. What passes between them belongs to both of them.

Spiritual movement, the fourth reach, happens together. The room settles on a shared aim, bringing the park back into use, and people/persons see their own part in it. One person calls the city, another sketches a trail map, a third shows up with tools.

Wholversical movement, the fifth reach, goes beyond. Months later, families the group never met walk the restored trail, and birds are in the hedges. This reach asks what keeps moving once the first circle steps away.

Two of these names are mine. Soulual and wholversical are coined words that people created to name things plain English does not cover. A word like this earns its place when you test it against your own life and find that it fits. If one fits poorly, tell me. The word may need sharpening, or the reach may need a new name.

Each reach rests on the one before it. First, bodies arrive. Then feelings are expressed, and people begin to exchange. From that exchange, a shared movement forms, and once it holds, its effect can travel past the group. Which reach are you standing in this week?

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