Confusion is the awakening of the unknown and learning.
Confusion is the awakening of the unknown and learning.
Every lesson, whether it is an Awareness Through Movement (ATM)®, private session or any of life’s lessons is a puzzle for your Nervous System to process. It’s not just the pieces of a puzzle but rather how to find a way the pieces interconnect and fit together without force. Movement creates an environment to generate comparisons. This state of open awareness often termed mindfulness is a gentle, soft, open focus in action, whether thought or physically doing, to access your inherent ability to improve. Feeling yourself potentiates an awakens your awareness of choices as to how to explore.
Compare the difference between hearing and listening. You can hear something that can create a strong reaction or possibly you tuned out, not really listening. Listening to the directions as well as to yourself awakens your attention to create rapport. Allow this rapport to resonate within as to how you are exploring. Can you link the quality of ease, comfort and pleasure to any action compared to pushing into resistance which only taps into fatigue. One creates faster improvement while the other is striving and slows the process down. In the Feldenkrais Method®, and lets just say life, learning how to create more congruent pathways to integrate and wire in, allow you to move forward, learning more that intrigues you.
The basics of physics is that we live in a gravitational field, one where gravity is approximately 14 lbs per square inch that weighs on us. When we improve the timing of our coordination, we find true efficiency, where we don’t feel the weight and effort of pushing against resistance. It is the sense most experienced in our youth where we seemed to have endless energy and felt buoyant. When we improve our organization that moves the weight of gravity into a sense of neutral, we find this sensation that is often referred to as “skeletal support”. This is where the muscles do the appropriate amount of effort for the desired action. It’s the intentional sensing of ourselves that allows our entire being to make connections that awaken our learning and knowing within what feels and works best.
If this intrigues you and you would like to learn more, experience more of this sense of Skeletal Support, I invite you to reach out and welcome you to have your own experience in finding neutral. Simply let me know you would like to receive links for my ATM classes or simply to chat, have a conversation to learn how to find you way into this place of continual improvement no matter what this dance of life has put before you. None of us get out of this dance, and while each of our dances are different, we all are intelligent and have the capacity to continue to learn, compare and chose other options for improving our lives moving forward.
“My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behavior so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.” – Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais
I hope I have earn the privilege of your time and attention this week and hope to meet you in September or any time your curiosity and interest are peeked to join in. The beginning of improvement starts with a decision to do something.
Warmest,
Peggi
