Feedback from Your Body
After the last webinar, I feel like I found some of my greatest clarity from listening to others explain how they do the Method. The missing link between much of our experience with exercise and what will best benefit us is feedback. The clarity I gained from the last webinar helped me understand what puzzles people the most when I ask them the first question during check-ins: “What do you notice?”. These moments are learning what feedback is. Feedback is simply a response from your body. Because it is not just in those moments but it’s happening every moment throughout our lifetime. Understanding this is then utilizing one of the greatest gifts our body gives to us, the ability to adapt to what will heal us. You will recover from old ways of moving that don’t serve you and discover new experiences with your body never imagined. That is the best news I can share, and the directions are all becoming open to how amazing that is, feedback from your body.
You can take it with you with every experience you have. Whether it be from anxiety symptoms, to recovering from an injury. Or if you want to continually improve at any endeavor you set out to do. Your body is with you all the time. It is a partner. You can either work together, understanding that its input can make everything so much easier.
To make it even easier the body will only give you two responses to notice,
- What you are doing, that’s the hard one.
- Allowing your body to do what it knows how to do. We usually prevent this.
The Check-in or the first question I ask in most classes makes people either want to leave the room, skip over the question, or feel confident they already understand this piece of the method. Or they might simply ignore it altogether because they don’t understand it.
We went into it more deeply. Although I know everyone wants to lie down on the balls, I know many of you do the Method on your own. I’m hoping that the more you clarify this, the more you can enjoy it and allow your body to do what it already knows how to do.
- We know how to breathe, but we hold our breath.
- We know how to move but stay stuck for many reasons.
It’s important to know that thoughts and our physical body connect in milliseconds. Think of switching on a light or turning on your television, it happens in an instant. It’s connectivity, it’s electrical. Unfortunately, the old paradigm of exercise (as I like to call it) many times doesn’t work because this piece of it is not the direction of most forms of exercise. I am not saying don’t exercise. I am saying bring this ability into your everyday including exercise.
What Is Emphasized?
I’ve worked in fitness centers, wellness centers, and hospitals for many years. I’ve seen a wide range of people—from young people to the elderly, from those with chronic pain to those with terminal illnesses. I’ve worked with athletes, professional dancers, and everyday people. Each person has their own experience with their physical body, but most of it is ruled by one desire: What they want to do.
It’s the focus of everything humans want—to have their bodies be well, and for some, to achieve at the highest level. People don’t want anxiety. They don’t want pain. They don’t want to experience any negativity in their physical bodies. So, it makes perfect sense that we want a beautiful, healthy body. It’s all about what we want. In some ways we are running from what we do feel. That is why the check-in is the hardest part of class, we don’t want to stop. Even though the check in is less than a minute, it can be a few seconds, we want to move ahead. It is unfamiliar to feel.
We don’t want to feel because the feelings are sometimes not pleasant. But that is how the body leads you. Some of the “bad” feelings will turn around as we begin to realize the body is leading us through these. It can’t give you lasting change until you feel what you are doing. That is the constant feedback and how powerful it is. It knows where and how to get to balance, strength, confidence, calmness, all things we crave. I understand that it’s a lot to ask because we run from these feelings and intellectually answer the questions through what others have told us is correct.
I was there, I understand. But it’s not about suffering, it’s about allowing this somewhat misunderstood and to me miraculous experience that we don’t understand. We don’t know how everything in our body works. By aligning ourselves with our body, acknowledging the feeling, gives our body a moment switch gears, deeply changing us, and always in the right direction. It might not be as hard as you think, it might be much easier than you realize.
Upcoming Webinars on a Key Area of your Body: The Leg Joint.
The next two webinars will focus on discovering your leg joint. We’ll explore how this key area of your body influences changes all other parts. Tell your friends, and I hope you’ll join me. This area of the body can transform your entire body. It’s key to relieving low back aches, sciatic pain and increasing confidence in the way you move your whole body.
As you begin to allow yourself to feel the process, you’ll realize that you’re working with your body, not against it.