Well-Aware Podcast with Jill Wigmore-Welsh MSc Feldenkrais

Can we create calm in chaos?

Can we learn techniques, process, practices to help us rise and thrive?

Yes, we can

The first place to start is within ourselves, feeling, listening to feelings from the body and hearing the messages, the habits and patterns, the changes that happen micro-second to micro-second

These days, there's a lot of attention placed on becoming more resilient, to thrive.

But, it's not always easy.

So what would it be like for you to actually be able to start to detect how you are running your nervous system, detect much more easily and much more quickly when life is getting to you or what we could say is when life is making you feel stressed?

This is a simple sitting process, you can explore a little and maybe learn some from increasing your awareness. The first stage of change is to learn what it is we do, to be kind, calm, accepting, soft with ourselves. 

Take this easy, play and explore, with a smile in your eye

Contact me if you have health problems and want to have some help.

We used to call it stress management, and decades ago I went into Hewlett Packard and trained people in practical ways they could manage their "stress".

These days, there's a lot of attention placed on becoming more resilient, to see the work place as a place to thrive.

However, the number of people coming to my practice with chronic mental and physical health problems is rising. The reality that everyone wants to discuss their mental health problems at work is a fallacy. Employees still work that indicating they have mental health problems, or chronic physical health problems, will impede their career.

This episode is just a reminder that whatever name we call it by, we are all subject to the responses and reactions of our nervous system, which happens before we can detect it

At the end I introduce you to one principle that I learned and has had a powerful effect on my health.

Maybe you can listen to the end and discover what it is.

So what would it be like for you to actually be able to start to detect much more easily and much more quickly when life is getting to you when life is making you feel stressed?

Contact me if you have health problems and want to have some help.

This Body Sensing & Movement Awareness Lesson is an introduction to a way you can use simple moves from the Feldenkrais Method to de-stress and recalibrate

These days, in the workplace, there's a lot of attention placed on becoming more resilient. Which is interesting because sometimes when you are under stress when you're life is stressful and it's an ongoing event what happens is that over time that ongoing stress can just cause all kinds of mental and physical body breakdowns.

So what would it be like for you to actually be able to start to detect much more easily and much more quickly when life is getting to you when life is making you feel stressed?

Try this short set of processes and discover how much you tension during the day.

As you develop your body awareness you can have another tool in your toolbox to keep yourself to stay healthy and well.

Contact me if you have health problems and want to have some help.

This is the second show episode that went out today and I talk Feldenkrais & everyday stress and tensioning:

Here is the link to the lesson: Warning sound is a little muffled, recording issues!!

Feldenkrais BSMA and Stress Management Lesson

Here is the text:

Hello this is Jill Wigmore-Welsh here from Reading in Berkshire just introducing you to another installment of this wonderful Legacy Project centering on the Feldenkrais method and the applications in terms of your everyday practice.

So I'm really going to be talking today about the brain and central nervous system and the emerging science, neuroscience. So when you're listening into this recording today I don't know who you are I don't know what your background is I don't know what knowledge and experience you have of your body of your brain of science so it can be a challenge to know who I can pitch this talk too

However, let's imagine that I am just talking to my next door neighbor or the average person who comes to see me in my clinical practice my treatment room. The room I have in my home, that’s the place where people come to see me because they have problems.

Most all of the people who come to see me don't know anything about the structure of their body they don't know anything much about physiology biology bones joints muscles , ligaments . They don't know much about the science behind how their body works.

They come to see me when they have a problem and that problem may be a pain, it may be a problem with movement, it may be a problem sleeping, it may be a problem with overthinking, worrying, procrastinating. Whatever it is, it’s something that's happening in their life and they're not happy and they want a solution.

Most always during the course of time that I work with people I introduce some of the principles and theories that I've learned from the Feldenkrais method. It has it’s roots in neuroscience. He studied neuroscience, but not MRI scans because they didn’t exist back then. He learned from scientists.

As you probably know I've been studying the Feldenkrais method since 1992. I completed my Feldenkrais Method practitioner training back in 1999 and I've completed many advanced trainings since..

So today we're going to be talking about using the Feldenkrais work and it's application to your everyday stress. That's right the everyday stress that you have as you go about your day-to-day activities. 

A little bit of stress is good for us if you don't have any stressful activities or anything at all a really our system doesn't work particularly well so a little bit of stress is okay episodes of quite a bit of stress is also something that most of us can handle but when you have stress and on going stress that lasts and lasts and lingers and that may be being caused by money relationships your health there are many many reasons that you could have underlying ongoing low grade stress that is just grinding and grinding and grinding away.

When we react and respond to things that we find are stressful we automatically go into that fight flight or freeze response and that is well recognized we used to just say fight or flight but now we know that there is freeze as well

When you experience ongoing stress you may not notice that your physiology your body is actually responding to that ongoing stress you may not notice it because it becomes so normal for your system to be responding that you just don't realize there's any other way to be

One of the most powerful effects of stress is on the way that we contract our muscles in response. We contract our muscles as a form of protection

If you're getting ready to fight imagine what you would do you'd be tensing your muscles you possibly be making a fist you'd be bending your arms you be tightening your shoulders you be focused on what it is that you're going to do

Imagine that you're driving down the motorway and as you drive down the motorway you've had a stressful day at work and you're driving through the traffic

As you drive through the traffic you've got more and more people pushing in front of you pulling in moving over. What you start to notice is that the hazard signs are showing that says the whole of that big motorway freeway I suppose if we were talking about America is going to shut. Lanes are going to close, “ah no!” even more stress begins to start to kick in.

You start to think “I'm going to be late I'm going to be delayed I need use the bathroom oh no!” and that stress that tension starts to magnify as it starts to magnify you begin to contract your muscles even more

If you've been contracting your muscles without realizing it for a long time there comes a point where you just don't notice.

You don't notice that you're gripping the steering wheel you don't notice that your elbows are bent and tight you don't notice that your shoulders are contracted you don't notice that you are holding your breath that you're tensing your legs that you're furrowing your brow that you’re clenching your jaw.

You don't notice because it's so habitual for you

But what you may notice is that you begin to start to get pain or you begin to start to feel as if you've got discomfort in your belly or your back.

It might even be that you begin to start to feel as if you want to shout or scream.

It may be that you do find yourself shouting at other drivers in cars or banging the steering wheel because you're getting so annoyed

Every day stress that builds up over a period of time is not good for your health. 

The tension that you can't feel, that you’re not aware of, is going on all the time, and its stopping the blood from flowing through your tissues.

As you contract your muscles the blood vessels within the muscles become compressed and squashed making it more difficult for the blood to flow through

Our combination of moving so that the muscles alternately contract and relax as you swing and flow your arms helps to keep that blood flow moving smoothly through all of your tissues.

Without good oxygenated blood traveling through your system going to every part of your system, cells are going to start to be low on oxygen they're going to become unhealthy

One of the best ways that you can help yourself to become very much more aware of your muscle tensioning of your physiology of your biology of your body and the messages that you're feeling in your body is to actually practice some of the work that the Feldenkrais Method.

Today I'm going to record a short lesson to help you discover how you can start to break that pattern of tensioning your muscles and how you can change your biology.

Come along and do the lesson

I look forward to talking to you again next week when I'll be online and I look forward to bringing you more installments of ways in which you can think of using this work to help your health

For now from me to you, this is Jill here in Reading in Berkshire have a lovely day and look after yourself

Number 1:

This is a recording of a live podcast put out on Thursday 15 June, which is the first of a series, where I introduce ways you can utilize this work as you learn to improve your life.

It lasts about 16 minutes, and hopefully the recording sounds OK.

Let me know.

If you want to have a conversation and discuss options on ways you need help then here is my booking link

Bye for now!

xxJ

This is the second part of the Feldenkrais Method 4 Points classic Alexander Yania lesson.

Sorry but the quality of the recording isn't so good, the yeti microphone may not have been picked up by audacity, typical tech issues !

Yesterday I recorded part one for you and stopped at a midpoint, today I take up where we left off and complete the lesson. 

If you want to do the whole lesson then here is the link to Part 1 the lesson part is about 25 minutes.

I would love to know how you get along and if you try the lesson with a group of friends.

Let me know via my website contact  page

Or you can book a conversation with me if you want some lessons to enable you to know how to be more aware of what you do and how you do it, so you can move better and easier every day

Here is a booking link, it's UK time. Enter into the booking link what the conversation will be for

This is a re-release from 2017 but still valid today

Contact me at https://www.jillwigmore-welsh.com

Or book a conversation to discuss options 

CRPS #Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is quite rare so not many GP's and clinicians will have come across someone with the condition.

In this podcast produced during NERVEmber Jill advises on who and what you need to look out for when you are searching for a clinician to work with

This is a re-release from 2017 but equally important today.

Contact me on https://www.jillwigmore-welsh.com or book a conversation at to discuss options, note this is set at UK time zone

Early signs of CSPS Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in Children.

Children can develop CRPS sometimes there are warning signs in this podcast Jill give some background on what to look out for and how challenging it is to be a parent of a child with early signs of CRPS and why finding someone who specialises in pediatrics and is experienced working with children & parents involved in CRPS is.

Recorded during NERVEmber which is CRPS awareness month this recording will help you understand why it's so hard to find a clinician experienced in working with CRPS in children

A re-release from 2017 still valid today and I've worked with even more people with CRPS now: Contact me on https://www.jillwigmore-welsh.com or book a conversation to discuss options Book a 30 minute conversation, Note this is UK London time zones set

A successful case

CRPS Early Symptoms of CRPS Complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS, ...Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is quite a rare problem but many people have early signs of CRPS after an injury. During this podcast produced during the NERVEmber month of CRPS awareness, Jill talks about what you should watch out for and the Budapest Criteria

We know that the best early stage treatment for CRPS is expert support from a clinician who knows how to help you to turn round your symptoms.

BUT what should you watch out for and who should you contact?

This recording will help you find out