Feldenkrais is a method used to improve movement patterns. Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais (1904-1984), the founder, stated;
“We improve our well-being when we learn to fully use ourselves.”
His work showed that habitual movement patterns can contribute towards and sometimes cause injury, pain and physical disfunction. That there is a relationship between movement and thought; in short, awareness through movement.
When healing without retaining your awareness and choosing to stay present you will through habit recreate what you had before and therefore forfeit the opportunity of something new and uncharted.
I shall create a new relationship between my movement and my
thoughts by choosing to be here, in the now of my existence.
I have a new right knee, I’ve given thanks to my old knee and all it has brought me. Oh yes, and my left knee too.
They have taught me;
That I would need great courage to move forward. That my system would want to hold tightly to what it was familiar with. I have learned not to fight my pain, but to learn from it and thank it for all the experiences and lessons it has brought me.
That being ill to be loved, is not love.
That regardless of how much pain one is in-
it is never an excuse for bad behaviour and the hurting of another.
To balance — to know when to persevere and when to rest and say enough.
To accept — that when an experience, a relationship is over; to let go gracefully.
Force – making it work, does not work.
Facing what we gain from our challenges
and what we may have to give up, when we choose to heal.
That there is Life after illness.
I now release. I release so I may lease new energy to walk with a new gait. I shall now walk. I shall walk forward. As Dorothy, a wise woman, said to me the other day, this is the only way to go — forward. Regardless of the path I may find myself on.
“Nobody can stop you
You were never broken
You were always holding out for this”
You Were Never Broken
by; Jann Arden Richards
A Conclusion.
Photo by; Sharon Cooke 2014