the practical and scientific study of man's unique design

The Dimon Institute is dedicated to the scientific and practical exploration of man’s unique psychophysical design, and to a holistic and conscious way of living based on an understanding of this design.

Though all human activity is undertaken by means of the biological organism operating as a mental and physical – or psychophysical – whole, we know relatively little about how this system works holistically. Because we class activities as being either mental or physical, few of us recognize that when, for instance, we are working on a mental problem, we are using our whole body to do this, and in a way which is largely unconscious. Even in physical activities where we are paying attention to what we’re doing, such as playing an instrument, we are usually so preoccupied with achieving a favorable result that we are largely unconscious of how our own psychophysical mechanism is working in order to achieve this result.

Dr. Theodore Dimon has spent 35 years actively researching and developing a new field of study to advance the understanding of our mental and physical system as a holistic entity and how it works in activity. He has shown how unconsciously performed activities negatively affect behavior, health, and learning and how they contribute to many of the problems we are experiencing in today’s society such as stress, ADD, muscle and joint pains, and learning and motor coordination problems. His work demonstrates that through an understanding of holistic functioning, it is possible to learn to use our psychophysical system in a more conscious and balanced way, leading to the prevention, alleviation and eventual elimination of these problems through a comprehension of how they are created through our own actions. This groundbreaking area of research provides new foundational principles applicable in the fields of health, education, and child development.

The mission of the Dimon Institute is to model the application of these ideas in the education of children and adults, to train teachers, and to disseminate knowledge of this system as a new field.

In our current educational system we are taught how to use our minds through study, how to use our bodies through physical activity, but little or no attention is given to educating mind and body as a unified whole. This rare type of education, where the mind is educated together with the body through a process of learning to think in action, enables us to develop our uniquely human faculties of consciousness, to the extent that we are able to become aware of exactly how we are performing actions. Without this education we grow up from childhood oblivious of the manner in which we carry out daily tasks, how we perform skills, and how our ways of doing things creates increasing tension and strain. With it we are able to function more consciously:

In the field of health we become able to identify and correct behavior patterns that lead to potentially serious clinical medical problems, even when they are at a very early stage of development and before they become visible. This applies as much to problems such as backache and joint pain, as to conditions such as stress and ADD which are frequently manifestations of those habitual actions interfering with our system.

In the field of general education, awareness of how we perform actions gives us a positive measure in our learning process and in the development of skill in absolutely everything we learn, whether holding a pen, sitting or standing, driving a car, or playing a musical instrument. By being aware, we can better control actions which require precision, such as hitting a golf ball or using tools, and we are better equipped to perform repetitive actions which cause strain, such as typing and speaking.

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