You Are Finding Choices

You Are Finding Choices

The Feldenkrais Method® is your powerful tool. It can enhance and inform your nervous system of options and possibilities and show you how to move forward with greater ease and comfort. Start first with noticing your internal as well as external sensations. Are they favorable and how might you make things even better? There is something you could do right now to create an improvement that you could track and monitor for results that indicate you are moving better, calming down and feeling improved.

Try this simple lesson, a way to breathe, to shift into a more balanced nervous system. Slowly through your nose, take 2 inhalations without exhaling, you draw in 2 breathes to fill your lungs and then as you are ready to exhale – exhale making a sound, maybe a sigh of relief or it could be a joyous sound that floats on your exhalation. And then do this again, maybe 3 times. Breathe in through your nose, quickly, once, twice and then exhale slowly through your mouth with a sound an allow your belly to express forward, as if you were laughing as you exhale. Each time you explore this, 3 times, you are quieting your nervous system into a more balanced Parasympathetic/rest/restore/nurtured state, moving from a Sympathetic, more activated state. You want to check it? Take a read of your pulse or blood pressure before you start. Can you notice if you are anxious or is something bothering you? Then do this breathing pattern 3 times and retake your blood pressure, you’ll notice, in comparison, a difference.

We learn from errors, so be playful and kind to yourself, as we are all doing our very best. Breath in the breathe of life and notice how your senses begin to change for the better. We are finding another way of moving forward instead of blaming how come something didn’t work. Maybe holding too much of a goal to achieve instead of exploring with interest, curiosity and amusement as you once did as a child. All you need to do is show up, be present and allow vs holding onto something that might be holding you back.

“Where attention goes, neural firing flows and neural connections grow.” – Daniel J. Siegel

I invite you to join me in weekly Awareness Through Movement (ATM)® lessons as well as virtual or private hands on Feldenkrais sessions. Just reach out to receive the links or schedule an appointment. Make a decision, take the baby step forward and watch how quickly you can shift into a better state of being in how you move, feel yourself and think about now what is possible with ease. You can say goodbye to the mindset of no pain, no gain to find where improvement comes through quiet attention, creating new connections and growing into who you prefer being.

I invite you to join me as I’ll be Dr Lakeischa McMillian’s guest on her Instagram Podcast next Sunday, December 10th at 2:30 to share more of the benefits to people through moving with mindfulness, tapping back into the process we all explored through developmental processes. Hope you’ll join me to learn more about how to connect and find improvements on a daily basis.

Warmest,

Peggi