How do you find your way home in your body? It’s personal.
Your Sensing Posture is your feeling body.
You return home to your midline through your thinking body.
These processes converge in a grounded skeleton supported by a central column of hydraulic support…
oriented with interest and desire to connect with the environment.
The accumulation of your life is expressed through your forward movement.
Where can you focus and what can you do to find more flow in your thoughts, your movement, and cognitive flexibility?
Do you just get by, or do you fully enjoy the ride?
Do you keep deviating from your intention?
Do you spin around in circles?
Here are the 4 levels of top-down restrictions and how to break free of them.
1. How you’re “thinking”: negative Self-talK
Solution: Narrating out loud
What are the stories you tell yourself? They originate in internal body signals, strategies you learned during bonding and development to connect and protect, and ongoing interpersonal skills you pick up as you learn to cooperate, stand up for yourself, have difficult conversations, share your inner doubts, negotiate a solution, persuade, and otherwise get through life.
Does your inner narrative impede actions? Can you express what you’re feeling? Can you connect and communicate your inner landscape with others?
Here’s and example of how you can start to shift limiting self-talk.
2. How you’re “doing things”: Shoulder girdle Restriction
Solution: Restore spinal response to orientation cues
The shoulder girdle often gets restricted through the sternum and clavicles. Facilitating normal movement there frees stagnant lymph, encourages normal rotation in the spine, and liberates the sacrum to move with more ease.
This is the foundation so you can reach towards your desires with your whole self. The relationship between what you desire and how you get it is established in tummy time, by your visual orientation, the reach in your arms, and the organization of your limbs.
3. How you’re “saying” things: Jaw and Oral cavity restriction
Solution: Connect jaw to lower body visceral support (Nautilus Circuit)
Your jaw opens to express your needs/desires and it clamps down to chew. Different functions, different configurations.
When it opens to express, you use the back of your oral cavity to shape the sounds. This involves movement of your skull and a stretch in the masseters.
When you chew, your skull remains more stable so your masseters can work. Your jaw displaces from the joint during mastication as shown in this video.
A tight jaw and a tight pelvic floor often co-exist. Replacing this tension with the hydraulic central column of support is the goal in standing.
4. How you’re “feeling” things: unclear midline
Solution: Restore clarity in body halves in tummy time
To move forward is to find your center again and again. In When Things Stick, we use this template to metabolize triggers.
Going down one level in how this process originates in the body, we restore the pressure signals in the body for weight shifting with the vestibular cues in the head.
This process lays the groundwork for working with the body halves in standing. And clarifying body halves is how you find your center by passing from one body half to the other, again and again.
Introducing: Rebuild Your Personal Body
In this program you’ll learn to address these restrictions by
deepening your sense of midline (to meet your stability needs) and
clarifying how to connect to your wants (to meet your motivational needs).
This new program addresses our very personalized manner of connecting to the world through the way we…
+ reflect through language, metaphors, symbols
+ vocalize our internal experience
+ organize ourselves to interact with the world (usually with our words and hands)