We are hard-wired, neurologically to move in the direction we are looking. So, if you want to experience more comfort, more enjoyment in your life, you have to start turning towards what pleases you, what interests you. This lesson in the Feldenkrais Method® of Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) is a somatic seqence that provides very tangible, concrete ways to notice when we are headed in a direction that opposes what we actually want to be feeling. Learn to lengthen muscles you have no ability to consciouosly control.

Starting position: on back. If you cannot do any of the movements, visualize them. Studies show imagining a movement makes the synapses fire and "synapse that fire together, wire together."

As with all ATM lessons, make sure you have a warm space and a comfortable mat, or even a quilted moving blanket to use as a mat. Lie down, make yourself ready to start with a body scan while the opening context is set. See if you can follow the sequence - think of it as a puzzle - for it's in figuring it out that you change the way your brain is wired and make new connections that lengthen the resting length of your muscles for greater ease and relief from the compression and effort that most people live with without even realizing it.