Author: Stuart Bell

Draw Your Own Face or maybe Describe your face in words.

I was recently reading some Young adult fiction (of which I am a Fan), and in the first few pages the protagonist is describing her face in the mirror.

I realized I had never done that, and that it might be a challenge for me to do that without using my usual self deprecating (or sometimes self abusive) mind talk. I suggest trying it using your most self judgmental language and with no self judgment.

Pretend perhaps that you are the author of your most interesting life, and you want to describe to the world this endlessly fascinating person you have chosen to go through life with, so intimately. Make it interesting for the rest of us, okay.

Know Thyself, hmmmm.

There are probably not many of you out there who will find these as interesting as I did, but I found them amazingly, endlessly fascinating.

Dr. Najeeb and his lectures for anatomy and physiology are refreshing. His accent is a bit daunting at first and some anatomical knowledge is useful. His drawings are helpful and offer a three dimensional view of the structures he talks about.

www.drnajeeblectures.com
Click on the  Try Us For Free   menu item at the top middle right.

Right away I paid my $99 for not only one year but two years of watching his videos and lectures.

Hi,

I am always in the market for fine Anatomy Pictures and Tools. Anatomy is only important in the work I do with people to the degree that it offers me, my students, and my clients alternative and new ways to observe the body. Body Beliefs is the name of my company because we have many beliefs about our bodies that are patently untrue or ill conceived. Anatomy can offer us some new and helpful insights and help alter those beliefs.

Just a few minutes exploring in the Primal Pictures amazing Anatomy discovery programs can help folks really get a new appreciation for how their body works. When you have a clearer understanding of the body and its spatial and movement relationships your body moves better and more elegantly. Many pains resolve themselves. New efficient use patterns become quickly available. You learn how to express yourself well with your body and movement. Confidence grows.

I don’t even suggest learning names, simply looking at pictures makes the difference in how you see yourself and how you can progress embodiment-wise.

Recently I reconnected with Primal Pictures and they offered me a substantial Discount for their software to me, my clients, and students. Like upwards of 40% Off now. Check out the pdf order form below.

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Let me know how it goes now, okay.

I recently searched Fundamental Movement Skills to discover how others might consider that topic. From the Australian government I found http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/primary/pdhpe/gamessport/fms001.htm

I was amazed at how long it takes to develop and perfect many of the Fundamental Movement Skills, and how we take it for granted that we have already learned and perfected them. Many older adults who find themselves a bit unsteady could certainly benefit from revisiting and relearning (or for some of us acquire for the very first time) many of those Fundamental Movement Skills. In a way that is what Feldenkrais, Laban, Alexander, and Hellerwork SI techniques are all about, aren’t they.

It immediately got me to thinking that one of our Body Beliefs is that once we learn something it is done, complete, finished, but it’s not that way, is it. We can learn and relearn all of our lives, and most of the time not only are we not trying to improve, but but we don’t even know exactly what we are doing.

Another website brought this home to me http://www.runningschool.co.uk where one of the prime notions is to learn at any age to do what we are doing, to figure out what we are actually doing, and create some games to make all the fundamentals of that activity better.

When we do these simple tasks we get better at everything, our brains continue to develop and learn rather than decaying and stagnating. We grow continuously and enjoy life fully.

One of the things I find satisfying is helping people learn how to use movement and body learning to have a satisfying, fulfilling, capable life in every realm including personal relationships and business leadership.

I am curious in what areas of your life you have physical skills that you don’t feel comfortable with, or skills that you would like to acquire, or skills and abilities that you’d like to improve upon. What do you say?

The Promise of Rolfing Children Part I – YouTube.

This video comes from a previous book about Structural Integration (like Hellerwork) for Children. It shows the amazing changes possible in a very short time period, and that the changes are generative, meaning that the results continue to get better long after the actual work has finished. These changes keep progress for the better even when there isn’t any movement education and cues in the process. When the mind is involved the changes are even more progressive. Posture and alignment in our everyday lives are the result of lots of learning and practice (see Fundamental Movement Skills article above) over many years. Movements into actions, actions into functional abilities and movement patterns, into habits, and eventually into structure. Bones and all connective tissues form according to the stress of learning and habit (not as most people think due fully to genetics). Changing posture and habits of a lifetime most often requires changing structure to get a functional changes (eg dental braces on teeth to change the smile, bite, chewing of people at most any age).

All physical change work is best done at movement learning and education level and structural levels.

Guild for Structural Integration.

Laban Movement Analysis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Alexander technique – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Feldenkrais Method – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

PNF stretching – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.