Shift of Weight
n. the base action and proof of any embodied gesture manifest as felt motion and requiring a lifting and transferring of weight from one point to another.
The embodied actor comes to know an event has happened through the shift of weight experienced in the sentient body. This can be in an overtly physical, gross body tossing, such as on a rollercoaster, or in a mundane bodily action, such as taking a step while walking, or in an implicit happening such as the feeling of mounting change while making a decision. The Soma Literate individual will recognize that the thought action, when part of a complete gesture, will create the shift of weight in conjunction with the cadence of the thought.
[Considering a] writer trying to come up with the precise word for her verse, the implicit and wholistic sense of knowing-without-explicitly- knowing can be considered as a felt-sense of the situation: the writer knows what she wants to say, despite the fact it remains in a non- conceptual form until discovered. When the correct word shows itself a felt shift is generated, and the writer can carry forward with her process (Figure 4). (Núñez-Pacheco, 2018, p. 34)
see The Golden Gesture