Staying in Balance
Staying in Balance!
You might recognize that your sense of balance is the integration of your vestibular, sensory and proprioception systems. Big words that simply mean, these systems refer to your inner ear an all the nerves that innervate your hearing as well as balance, your sensations in gravity, and knowing where you are in space. There is a feedback loop, are you paying attention, and if so, to what? Fears can debilitate, hopes can empower you, but really sensing and feeling yourself can lead to confusion. Find a more balanced perception while living in this unstable world.
“We act in accordance to our own self image!” Moshe Feldenkrais
Another factor is what about the things we say to ourselves, our self talk, looping in our brain, is it guiding us to a place we would like to be or is it holding us back because of beliefs we’ve been holding onto, an often unconsciously. Maybe some of our self talk was instilled in us decades ago due to our upbringing, our community, beliefs that we accepted while maybe not really being aware of their intention and how these thoughts mold and shape us.
Emile Coue’, a French psychologist, was the father of autosuggestion. His work relates to how you can become aware of what you are saying or thinking and how this affects everything you do. Children are very malleable as they adjust to find their balance in gravity while adults, we are already established in how we think, feel and move, or are we? Might we become curious to the process and find ways when we are not so pleased with how we are functioning to reestablish our process in finding balance in our mind, body and spirit. It’s the process of growing, learning and being curious. What are the questions you ask yourself, and what are the answers you give yourself, the how come? Or you begin to recognize this pattern and pause to reflect on another way to process information. Maybe at times the questions you ask yourself and others can change and maybe the things you do, the people you align with, might also be adaptable so that you can bring new questions and different answers into your daily life.
An Awareness Through Movement (ATM)® lesson teaches you a set of skills to better your awareness. Every week I offer 4 afternoon classes to awaken your potential, finding different options than your more hardwired patterns. We are not taking anything away, simply adding more possibilities to compare and notice how little differences inform you in new ways, allowing you to sense, feel, think and do with greater ease and comfort. I hope you will have the curiosity to explore the vast array of ATM lessons to find not only those that you love and resonant with but also maybe those not so familiar and maybe confounding. What I’ve learned is more often than not, those more confounding lessons are the ones you really need to begin to pay attention to, finding your way into what’s so foreign and different, yet nothing to be afraid of.
“Through awareness we can learn to move with astonishing lightness and freedom at almost any age and thereby improve our living circumstances, not only physically…but emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.”
- Moshe Feldenkrais
Warmly,
Peggi
