Well-being and How to Improve

Well-being and How to Improve

Did you know that all facts enter your mind as either sensations, images, feelings, or thoughts? Do you have an inkling of which of these is more familiar to you, and how you process this information? For progress, you need to recognize that either being too rigid in your mindset or beliefs or being too accepting of what you’ve been told or read can block you from moving forward. Thinking outside your known wisdom is necessary, and being able to shift and ask different questions is another part of the learning process! There’s a mental model that learning behavior too often focuses on what’s wrong, and that’s an important aspect when problem-solving, but I suggest that what’s most important is thinking of a process, not of what’s right or wrong, but rather an adventure to find more resilience. Curiosity is crucial; then owning your capacity for change and believing in yourself, despite what another tells you, can open a closed door to move through. It’s not about doing this alone, but rather about finding the right wellness team to work with to find solutions.

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” Maya Angelou

There’s a difference between fixing a problem and learning how to create incremental improvements. Learn how to assess where the concern is, and then approach a process of slowing down to better awaken to your patterns. When they come quickly, these actions reveal your habits. Are there any of these sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts that are not supportive of finding other strategies to move forward, as these can become limiting beliefs? Perhaps, while we all want to fix the problem, can you instead shift to a discovery-based thought process, where you begin to notice a difference that makes a positive difference in your experience? Have you heard of Pareto’s law, a rule for working with pain, that indicates an 80-20% relationship: the key to supporting someone in pain, whether acute or chronic, is to focus on the key element rather than trying to fix everything. This is the 20% that enables the greatest improvements, only 20%. It’s in finding the essential element to address for relief.

“One does not get better, but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”– Gertrude Stein (American novelist & poet)

Creating an environment that improves your level of awareness enables something to shift and awaken the process of integration. This is when your skeletal structure, with your muscular system, directed by your brain and nervous system, works as a whole entity through movement to facilitate integration, something that begins to become reliable and a more optimal behavior. A dear colleague of mine shared this acronym, ASKME: Awareness that represents your interpretation of sensations, feelings, thinking, and movement; Stopping, a result of assessing what creates any discomfort, even a small amount, that indicates a lack of efficiency. It also creates more heat, friction, and wear and tear to what is already under duress; Knowledge, the awakening of something new and how to proceed differently than habitual ways of doing things; Mindset, learning other ways to think about issues; Experience, is it awakening other potentials where there is a reduction or absence of pain or fear…

“To learn, we need time, attention, and discrimination; to discriminate, we must sense. This means that in order to learn we must sharpen our powers of sensing, and if we try and do most things by sheer force of will we shall achieve precisely the opposite of what we need.” Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais

I hope I’ve earned the privilege of your time and attention this week and welcome your engagement.

Warmest as Spring is finally upon us,

Peggi

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