Concentrating On Change
Concentrating On Change
The Feldenkrais Method® is a process that awakens. Allow this awakening to come with ease and comfort instead of working hard at it. Can you direct your gentle attention to awaken your awareness to what you are doing? Notice how I’m asking questions to awaken your curiosity. This is called the Somatic Education we explore with Feldenkrais, where you put your intention into action. Start in the realm of imagining what you would like to experience, can you see it, sense and feel it within? From there begin to follow this learning that awoke in your imagination as this is probably something known in your nervous system. Your attention is a skill you developed over time so tap back into this process to find more optimal ways to move into comfort. It’s never going to be achieved by pushing and working harder. Optimization awakens with greater ease and comfort when you tap into how to quiet and listen for a pathway without any sense of having to push harder. Get curious as to not only what you want, also step outside of your known way of doing it to find other possibilities to arrive at your desired expectation.
Use all of your senses, many found in your facial region as well as all the sensory cues from your fingers and tongue that will awaken parts of you too often overlooked and unexplored. You will begin to build more rapport with yourself as well as with others. Honor how to explore and learn to move out of discomfort and into a world of greater ease, fluidity and flexibility. This flexibility comes from how you organize your thoughts, moving more into a space of exploration instead of pushing to achieve an outcome, as resistance only begets more resistance! Give this process time as it’s wired deep within your nervous system. Awaken the how that is within you, simply choose to be more comfortable, finding pathways without effort that will surely indicate you are holding your breathe. Find your way to slide into comfort with ease!
When you use all of your senses to guide you forward, you learn how to empower yourself to reach beyond your known limitations into a freer self image and world. Listen to the timing of your coordination, how you use your natural breathe to fuel you into a more optimal, organic action to find resilience and an efficient way of being!
I’ll be offering 4 ATM lessons this week so hope you join in to explore how to initiate any movement from multiple places within you. First lets explore the use of our sensory organs, our teleceptors that lead us forward as this happened when we were so much younger. Begin at the beginning as to how we started and find other pathways forward, not just the hardwired patterns we automatically activate.
“…Hours of repetitive practice is hard work; hours of practicing awareness in movement or action remain the most absorbing and interesting time in our lives. The feeling of being alive relates to the awareness of growing to be oneself.” – Moshe Feldenkrais
If you have followed to this point I hope I have earned the privilege of your time.
Warmest,
Peggi
