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You don’t know what you don’t know.

It’s an interesting thought. It very much applies to our bodies. We don’t feel what we don’t feel. Moving freely, relieving stress, many times requires us to feel our bodies in ways we are not familiar.  When we go about it this way, we begin to notice our body actually gives us some clear direction and can give us feedback to take the stress off chronically tight muscles, being emotionally drained and more.  Think about it, our bodies know how to do it. But to unlock this wisdom we need to ask the right questions of the body. That in turn will relieve the symptoms, or help you move easily and reshape your body. But for now, most of us, we don’t feel what we don’t feel.

For example, years ago when my shoulders got tight, I was constantly trying to relax them. I would stretch out, try to improve my posture, I would meditate and my shoulders were still tight. I was trying to “fix” it. Sometimes the “fixing” can be stressful in itself, never mind the tight shoulders. Why wasn’t my body simply listening to my direction, RELAX? I have learned the body doesn’t work that way unless you feel it first. A word like relax for the body is not specific enough.

I have found that when I stop to notice, and simply bring attention to the “whole “body, I put that in quotations because many times we isolate one part from the rest, that guarantees that we will only get temporary relief at best. Observe your whole body as well as how you breathe. This will begin to help you feel your body as it is, not how we want it to be. This can be the most challenging. As you bring attention to the whole you may be able to feel specific ways or areas that you work the hardest, and other areas you don’t seem to even feel.

We all want things. Sometimes we will do anything to get them. We are all in search, constantly to feel better.  It is better to simply feel, and take what you get and learn from that. Don’t judge it, or fix it. Don’t think you know better and a good stretch will make everything go away. Ask yourself to simply bring attention to your body and observe what you notice. Feel what you feel! This gives the body a chance to reply. What I mean by reply is respond. In our anxious desire to be better, we never listen because as I learned, no one teaches us that process.

That is how you get started each day. Then the amazing body can reply with real information. We don’t use information someone told us will work. We work with the information our body gives us.

For me, when it came to my shoulders, it wasn’t my shoulders, it was much deeper. Eventually I learned to allow the whole body to support them instead of carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. Do not underestimate the power of feel. I discovered even small worries were messing with my ability to freely breathe during the day. That set me in a better direction having that information.

The body organizes itself in ways we cannot even comprehend. That doesn’t make it difficult to do but we have to be clear when we would like something to improve to ask the right questions, give ourselves the right cues and then be open for how that can change the whole landscape of your body, feel things you normally don’t feel and know things you didn’t know!

Next blog on how this process even changes your shape, improve muscle tone and help you feel amazing.

The Miracle Ball Method
The miracle is your body

After a long day on the job or an uber work out, it is important to let your body recover and readjust anything that you may have tweaked out of alignment—such as your lower back.

That’s where the Hips on Two Balls move comes in!

As with all the Miracle Ball moves, learn to use the balls to simply rest on. Yes, it does seem somewhat counterintuitive, but it’s not. That’s the Miracle!

Exhale….ssssss….and let your own body weight and the placement of the balls give you the sensation of relief — mentally and physically. Once you allow your body to STOP, it can then go to work and you can feel that magic happening.

Watch the Hips on Two Balls video and notice that the two balls are strategically placed to relieve lower back ache. Hips on Two Balls is also a great move to do the day after a work out to relieve ‘day-after’ stiffness.

A ‘Muffin Top’ is really just a silly way of referring to the muscles around the middle of the body that are somewhat underused.

Many of us exercise and get disappointed when our shape remains the same. We want our core or waist area to slim down, tighten up, or lengthen, yet it stays the same –but– other areas of our body get tighter and tighter.

Very, very irritating.

Let’s move this picture around!

Think of the act of tying your shoelaces. If the laces are knotted you cannot create a bow. The Miracle Ball Method takes the tension down in the muscles, or, in other words, loosens some of these knots so you can begin to move differently and create the shape you want. The tightest areas of our body tend to work the hardest, and that prevents other areas like the waist from getting the chance to move freely and then slim down.

The intent of The Miracle Ball Method is not to rub, exercise or find trigger points with the ball, but to gain feeling in those underused areas of the body. ‘Find your parts,’ I always say. (We can’t move what we don’t feel.) Ribs on the Ball (page 244 in the book) is a great ball placement– although probably the hardest — and will help you loosen those tighter muscles and give you a way in to feeling and then moving the waistline. If you aren’t familiar with The Miracle Ball Method go to the Ribs on the Ball placement gradually or start with an easier ball placement.

After you use the Method and understand it a bit, look at the video and see if you can sense when you are overusing one part, and underusing another part.

As always–don’t force it. Remember “the Miracle” is your own body. Eventually, with the combination of the Miracle Ball Moves and your own exercise routine, the only muffin top you’ll know is the one on the top of your real muffin.

As always, if you don’t have the book and the Miracle Balls, you can get them here: (https://miracleballmethod.com/shop/) and many other products that will help you Relieve + Reshape + Reduce your Stress.