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Are you feeling stuck in love?
I don't know if it is preparation for February, but it seems like all of my clients these days are coming to get balanced for relationship stress. All kinds. Everything from being able to move things out of an ex's apartment and finally ending it, to keeping your head focused while moving through the difficult process of divorce. The kind of pain that one experiences while going through relationships is one that is in a class of its own. I have also seen Brain Gym and the sessions make this process markedly easier so that you can move through it with more grace, ease and as little stress as possible. As my question to you is, are you feeling stuck in love? And aspect of it, from finding it, keeping it, or being satisfied with it? No matter how much you tell yourself, "never again", do you find yourself stuck in the same kind of relationship? Are you hanging on to a relationship that is not honoring to who you are and where you want to go? It's not your fault. I have a secret. You may be surprised that the culprit lives in your own body. Your brain. Your brain absolutely hates change. It may actually be keeping you stuck in longing, heartbreak, or stagnation just to keep the status quo. If you are sick of hurting, and want to open up to a better way, come to this event on Thursday which will give you some tools to get unstuck in love. Details can be found here. Reserve your spot today! Quite often we pick people as partners/friends who have the opposite brain make up of ourselves. I think this tendency is a response to an inner drive to be complete, and so we draw people into our lives who represent a different way of being and living in this world in order to learn from them. I have found this in many people I work with and in my own relationships. It's almost like the two people together make up a whole brain, and though one complete brain is good, two complete brains choosing to spend time together is even better. The thing is, seeing things from someone else's perspective is difficult, especially when your brain tends to see, analyze, understand things in a very specific and unique way. Do you ever get into a (heated) discussion with your significant other when after a while you realize that you both have been arguing for and wanting basically the same thing but because it was communicated in a certain way, you were not hearing each other? Or do you ever feel like you explain things a million different ways but they just don't "get it" or "get you"? It's frustrating because it seems so obvious to you, but to the other person with a different brain make up, it is not obvious. In these cases, we often just, "agree to disagree" and resign ourselves to just relate in this way or expect a struggle when it comes to communication. But things don't have to be/stay this way. I recently had a chance to work with a couple, in real time, to balance both their brains to become more whole brained in themselves and then relate to each other from there. They were both able to turn on both sides of their brain, the logical/linear action brain, as well as their big picture/reading-between-the-lines receptive brain, and they felt like they reached a new level of "seeing where the other person was coming from". In what areas of relationship do you find struggle? How would you like to deepen your relationship today? Both partners need not be present for this change to happen. Come do a session to become more whole brained, and thereby more satisfied in your relationship today! When she made the appt, she was coming with the goal of being able to work with better focus and efficiency. She works from home and she said that she needed to get better at "sitting still and focusing". I knew this woman from one of my fitness circles, she is a yoga practitioner and I had not seen her in a few weeks. She is normally a happy, bubbly and friendly person but when she walked into the session she seemed like she was in shock, with her breath held and face frozen on the verge of tears. I have seen this face(and experienced it myself) when people have gone through a shock of some sort, parents who have had children with challenges and had to go to work addressing the needs of their child without ever having the chance to grieve, sudden break ups and deaths of loved ones. I asked her how she was doing and she said with a strained smile, "Fine". (which in woman-ese, is anything but). It turns out that in the last few weeks she became involved with a superstar teacher(a handsome and sought after teacher who undoubtedly has many admirers), and had had an intense few weeks of crash and burn romance. "I knew that about him but I was hoping that it would be different with me...." And then the tears came. She said that she was having a particularly hard time focusing since this all happened, but further discussion revealed that this teacher was supposed to "help me get over another guy", which then showed a bigger and older pattern of jumping from relationship to relationship that had been going on for as long as she could remember. Not being with anyone throws her off balance and so was particularly affecting her focus, but the deeper issue was not an issue with focus. It was about being comfortable being alone and feeling like she was in a relationship by choice rather than need. So the goal of the session turned into, "I choose to be in relationship". Many experiences in her family as well as her own life experiences contributed to her feelings of needing to be with someone to be secure. These and other learnings were uncovered and balanced using brain gym and intuitive dialogue. Her comment at the end of her session was, "My brain feels so much cooler and calmer. I feel like I just want to go home and take care of myself". I received a note from her the following day which read: "I had a great nap after the session. I think. I'm not sure if I actually fell asleep because my brain felt like it was still thinking, having some conversation with itself...The good news is, I felt more relaxed calm, less overwhelmed. I felt more at ease and content being home by myself, watching TV and not feeling anxious to go out and be around other people...AND I just had a talk with my friend about everything and surprisingly, I was able to talk about it without feeling the need to cry, without it consuming my mind, without it feeling like my heart was breaking into a million pieces. I just talked, kinda laughed about it, and sort of moved on. I'm not really sure if this is what's supposed to happen but I'll take it. Thanks again for your time. I really appreciate the help." Making mental and emotional space is sometimes necessary to move forward, and brain integration techniques can help do that relatively quickly and easily. If you have an experience or situation that you are having a hard time letting go of, or moving past, set up a session today! Last week I had the pleasure of teaching brain gym to a lovely group of yoga teachers, therapists, and parents. We are doing the brain gym course over many weeks, which gives us a chance to really understand how to use brain gym from the inside out. One of the yoga instructors, who is a runner, shared that she used to run long distances but always struggled to get her pace under 9 minutes. This week she was doing a brain gym sequence called PACE everyday and and a few others as they felt appropriate. She said that when she went for a run after doing some brain gym, she had run 8 miles with her time at 6 minutes45 seconds a mile! The thing that struck her was that she made such great time but she didn't feel like she was working harder. The reason for this is because when you stimulate the brain with brain gym, the muscles all move and work in a coordinated way. Even when you are good at the task, whether it be running or any other sport, there is less resistance within your body for moving forward. What a cool outcome! What do you love to do that you would like to make even more effortless? What athletic activity would you like to take to the next level? We completed week 2 of the procrastination group coaching series, and the results have been amazing. Not only are things getting accomplished, but dots are starting to connect as to how our brain responds to rewards and "punishment". There are many questions that have been raised and not necessarily answered because some of these questions point to larger patterns and assumptions we make about how life is supposed to run and what it means to "accomplish" things. One participant asked, "there is all this 'busy' work I feel like needs to be done before I can get to the creative stuff that I want to do. But often times by the time I finish doing the busy work, I don't have energy or focus for what I want to do." If you were to complete a whole list of mundane yet necessary things, would that leave you feeling accomplished or upset that you didn't have time to get to what you wanted to do? Sometimes it feels good to get it done, but the drudgery takes a toll on your energy and thought reserves. Sometimes, doing the one thing on your list that brings you great creative joy gives you juice and motivation to finish the other things on the list that are not as fun. What is your way through your list? The one thing I noticed most glaringly this week with the ladies in this course, was that even though they actually accomplished more than they normally do in a given week, they were not able to focus on the achievement, but rather focused on what they did not yet accomplish. They were able to stick with projects that they usually put off all the way to the end and clear out things that they've been meaning to clear out for months, yet all they could say was "Yeah, but I still didn't get to.....xyz" This is a fatal flaw of procrastination and for accomplishing things because there will always be more to do and more that could've been accomplished. It is important to cultivate a habit of noticing accomplishments. It is great to know what still needs to be done, but at the end of the day, let the very last thing you do be to count the accomplishments that were had, no matter how small. This shift in perspective alone will bring you more of a sense of accomplishment and motivation to do more. Try it and post your comments below! I always think of families like a garden. If the kids are the plants, then the parents are like the soil and water. Siblings are like co-habitating plants. I always operate under this premise and work on parents of the kids I work with as much as possible because how can plants thrive if the earth and the water are out of balance? The greatest experience I had today was in working with the older brother of a child with autism. Kids with challenges take a lot of resources, not only materially, but emotionally and in time. This older brother was such a sweet one, learning to put his needs aside to help his brother, but as I've been working with his family, he had been getting increasingly "annoyed" with his brother. A feeling he never really had before. It came up today that it was his turn to get worked on and when I put my attention wholly on him, he was at once relishing it and not knowing what to do with all the attention. It's like he was finally getting what he has been wanting but it's so much information that it's uncomfortable. So the goal we came up with was that "It's ok for me to focus on myself." It was a quick little procedure, some movements and a repatterning, but his whole attitude shifted, and when we were done with the balancing procedure, his little brother(as if on cue) turned up the volume on his game to the max. But rather than jump off the table to attend to his brother's behavior, he just laid there on the table, still paying attention to his own body. I told him, "did you notice that you were not only paying attention to what your brother was doing and you kept yourself focused on what we were working on?" He thought for a moment and said, "Oh....yeah. It doesn't really bother me anymore". His mom gave him a hug after he got off the table and this time rather than giggling uncomfortably, he faced her full on and really received her hug. It was beautiful to watch. Hello! As you know, I have been practicing this fine art of Capoeira and this week I hit my wall. Much to my chagrin, I am realizing that I am no longer a "spring chicken", and everything that I have ever injured, my shoulder, my ankle, my knees, my hips. They all ache. Yes it was snowing this week but it was even before that. It's really humbling and really, really frustrating, to see what you want to do and not to be able to do it. This is usually the time when most people give up a new activity, because it's just too hard. I was thinking this, that I was too old and that it's just not me and who do I think I am? And all this negative nonsense I hear when I encounter a challenge. I was doing my brain gym this morning and I realized that it's not the thing that is not for me but it's my approach. There is a process in Brain Gym, called PACE, which is an acronym that stands for Positive, Active, Clear, and Energetic. All states of mind that you need for optimal learning. I do this sequence of movements at the beginning of each session and prepare my client/student's brain for optimal new learning because you can't make a change when you're stuck. Even though I do this so many times a day for so many other people, I realized that I had neglected to do it for myself. I lost the P of PACE, to be positive and accepting of where I am in the present moment, given my skill level, body condition, and time training. I have been doing this martial art for almost a year (on and off) and I am looking at/comparing myself/wanting to do things that people who have been training for at least 2, 3, in some cases 9-15 years, are doing. I took a step back and assessed where I was and what I needed to do to progress at a rate that is in alignment with what my body can do, rather than where my mind wants it to be---which is doing back flips. I realized that I need more time outside of class, to take my time and feel what my body feels like making the transitions between moves and to do it in a slower way so I can really understand the effect. I also realized that my body needs some attention outside of the realm of brain gym and just working out. It needs some expert guidance of some excellent practitioners I know in the area of Feldenkreis, physical therapy, craniosacral therapy and muscle activation technique(I have linked to their websites here in case you are in need of these same services--my cranial person does not have a website so if you need the info, please contact me). The adage "No Pain, No Gain" may make you get there faster, but you will not be able to sustain it long into the future. I love this art so much I want to be doing it in a way that makes my body and mind happy well into the future. So for now, I will have to be happy with my kicks and dodges, and save the back flips for later. Is there an area in your life where you hold unrealistic expectations for yourself and are pushing beyond what is a comfortable and honoring PACE for you? Are you critical of yourself for not being somewhere you "think you should be" all the while missing out on all the greatness that you ARE? Ask yourself, "Am I in alignment with my PACE for learning?" Positive-accepting of where you are but also open to new possibilities? Active-are you taking just right actions that are moving you towards what you want? Clear - do you have a clear idea of where you are going/want to go? (this is your intention and not someone else's) Energetic - Are you taking good care of your physical body and giving yourself the basics of what you need to get where you want to go? If you are interested in learning the Brain Gym PACE sequence of movements, please send me a message and I will send you the documents that outline these steps. This simple sequence of movements help to create this state of PACE in your body mind system. Upcoming Brain Gym Events At a Glance Wednesday March 13, 2013 - Mini Workshop on Sensory Integration and Brain Gym - reserve your space HERE Sunday April 7, 2013 - One Day Introduction to Brain Gym - Reserve your space HERE Wednesday April 10, 2013 - Mini Workshop on Sensory Integration and Brain Gym - reserve your space HERE April 20, 21, 27, 2013 - Brain Gym 101 Workshop - please send message to receive registration form. Have a great day!!! It also really helps when the pep talk comes from a straight talking, adorable kid who goes by the name, Kid President! Gratitude List / 2 minutes of appreciation: Kids are so darn cute. They make you smile in so many ways. To the way they view the world, the way they giggle, their honesty about things that we as adults learn to hide and repress, and their total openness and innocence and ignorance of all the should's that govern social interactions. I also love their resilience and puzzlement of how seriously we take everything and am reminded always to lighten up around them. They are so endlessly entertaining to watch, and so fun to interact with. There are so many times that they make some comment that makes you totally bust a gut. Also because I work with both kids and adults, I am amazed at the rapidness of the changes kids make when they are shown a different way. There is no clinging or not wanting to let go of something that is not working. There is less "crustiness" in the brain. One of my little clients' littler sister insisted on sitting in on our session today and while I was doing a process called Navel Radiation on her brother, she came up to him and covered his eyes and said, "Pink-a-boo!" Of course this little one is obsessed with pink so naturally, "peek a boo " is "pink a boo". Her brother and I were giggling as she did it over and over again. |
Mari MiyoshiChanging the brain is the new frontier to changing your life. I am not only the practitioner but also a continual client. My own brain as well as those who entrust me with their brains, never ceases to amaze me in its capacity to change, re-learn, and create! Archives
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