What I Saw During the Last Webinar
I wanted to write about what I saw and experienced in the last free webinar, Conquering Your Computer Body.
It’s very exciting for me to actually see people on the screen during the Zoom webinars. I completely appreciate those who don’t want to be seen or heard. But some of you do keep your videos on, and the way I teach allows me to visually see what some of you are experiencing. I can often sense it in my own body as well.
It’s all up to interpretation.
I believe we interpret life through our senses — visually, through sound, taste, touch — through the feel of life itself. Yet we don’t develop our kinesthetic sense — the sense of our physical body — nearly as much as would greatly benefit us.
To get unstuck is essential.
To notice how we are stuck is the main ingredient.
To relieve chronic complaints — the pain from sitting at a computer for long periods, from playing a sport, from scoliosis, sciatic pain, shoulder stiffness — this main ingredient is critical. It depends on how we interpret what we feel.
Someone might give you a diagnosis if you complain that your back hurts. They might prescribe a treatment. That is very different from knowing what your body is actually doing to create the problem.
Let me repeat that.
In the world of bodywork, most of us are focused on where we want to go. If you have pain or anxiety, of course you don’t want that feeling. You’re motivated to get away from where you are and go somewhere else. I completely understand that.
What I’ve learned — through a lot of early failure trying to maintain relief from chronic pain — is that I was never asking what I was doing. In my mind, whatever I was doing was wrong, so I focused on what to do next.
But the answer was in developing a relationship with how my body was giving me feedback through what it was doing — not where I wanted it to go.
