[I believe that I transcribed this from parts of Carl Ginsburg's book on Moshe Feldenkrais - The Intelligence of Moving Bodies Book. Forgive me a lapse in recall and poor notes...I did discover that some of the text could have been taken from an article that Carl Ginsburg wrote - The Roots of Functional Integration...] PMD

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It can properly be said that functional integration is an empirical art form. The power of Feldenkrais' way of thinking is revealed in the efficacy of his method in actually getting people to learn. Shifting perception simplifies thinking and understanding. Clarifying the thinking is the ambition of science. Moshe's insights are immediately practical and lead to a change in action, a change in the way we behave towards others. We can be more humane and humanly precise in the way we interact with each other. 

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Our work through the skeleton, as well as our work with development deals directly with this self-image, and not with specific acts. The self-image, however, is not some fixed thing: it is the ability to fulfill the images of achievement, the ability to affect the environment.

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The fact that direct contact through the skeleton evokes function - and thus learning and change in the self-image - is an extraordinary fact.

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There are eight insights into this theory and they can be read about in The Value of Differentiation.