🐌 TREE 803: Slow + small + ease = change

Movement begins in the brain.
Our exquisitely sensitive nervous system makes the most efficient choices from the options it has available.
Any change to how we move, manifests first through our brain’s plasticity.
To expand the bank of new options it can choice from,
first get your brain and nervous system interested.

Use your mindfulness,
your attention,
your awareness
as you move
to see where you can do less,
where you can reduce effort.
Reducing effort divides force evenly through our form.
We discover how to move with simplicity, lightness and ease.

To lose effort,
How would it be to go slow?
S l o w I n g as you move gives time to notice,
to sense and feel difference.
The sensing of difference
is the language of the nervous system.
It loves difference.
It loves variation.

To get the nervous system interested,
to initiate change, go small.
Going small without pushing or forcing
dissolves resistance.
It’s not how much I move or how far I move,
it’s how I move.
Let an ease-ful quality get banked.
Go small to get big
… with ease.

True learning is often the result of playful accidents:
a delightful discovery,
something surprising, fresh, unexpected,
the un-thought of,
the result of new neural pathways
that make function easier and more comfortable.

To experience this in action, join me for a 6 min easy movement exploration:

Ruth xx