Making Space
Making Space
Giving ourselves time to process, rest, restore, nurture, all this requires quieting the noise whether it be too much on our plate we have to attend to, overloading our brains with thoughts, things we’re trying to stay on top of, the list is endless. There are times even when we know we need a time out, other priorities demand we keep pushing through. It’s difficult, so instead of waiting for that perfect time to take off, go on a vacation, what if on a daily basis you were able to make the time that gave you a bit more space to breathe, pause, listen internally to what you need to best take care of you? It all sounds wonderful and then there’s real time. Real time is comprised of the choices you make as to how you portion out your day. What if every day, for a little while you prioritized time for you. Might you dream of ways you can create this as a possibility and not a can’t you push to the background?
The awakening of a thought is the beginning of taking an action and that jump starts your process. Your thought activates pathways in your brain to direct your attention as to how to think outside of your known to find other possibilities. Create a thought, take an action even if a simple step of lying down on the floor, listen to your contact, what would you do to stop the chatter in your head as the moment you are in your head with these thoughts, you are no longer able to really sense and feel within your body.
Come back into you to sense your physical sensations that inform you if you are able to soften, rest or the thoughts are like a tornado that intercede and consume energy, trigger cortisols and activate our adrenal glands into a fight or flight, a sympathetic state. Can you notice that and pause, make space and even for a moment, turn your attention inwards to listen to you. Focus on what you want and hope for instead of what you fear as what you focus on you bring to you. Your mind matters while your physical body and what you are experiencing prioritizes. The dichotomy here is that our body and mind while informing the other are one and the same thing, each informs the other how we thing, feel and move.
I hope you will join me for Awareness Through Movement (ATM)® classes whether you join live on zoom at time of, or receive the audio files for later when the timing is best for you. Make the space and notice how this will enhance your productivity. Running on empty, sooner or later you will crash so create other options, explore even for a small portion of time a daily ATM. It can be the same lesson that got your attention because during and afterwards you notice how much better you feel. This is your pathway, making space that opens doors of possibilities. Notice when there is resistance, holding, might you pause, you don’t have to do anything but stop, look and listen to your breathing with a softness that you can find another way outside of the habitual pushing to your tipping point.
“The possibility of a pause between the creation of the thought pattern for any particular action and the execution of that action is the physical basic for awareness.” Moshe Feldenkrais/Amherst
This week I am offering 3 afternoon ATM classes and then I’m off to work in the Ann Arbor I Feldenkrais Training. If you have the downloads of classes, they’re yours to explore anytime, anywhere and if that is not possible, you can visit my YouTube channel to explore over 80 free ATM lessons. Make the commitment to you and notice how much better you begin to feel, giving yourself the space, time and ease to then continue forward with all that you need, have to and get to do!
Warmest,
Peggi
