I moved house last week. It was a bit of a marathon and I was taking boxes and crates up to our new flat until far too late at night. It's a great flat and a good move, but the unaccustomed lifted has shown up a weakness.

I strained a muscle in my mid-back region. I've just got back from my physiotherapist, Sonja Bass. Having freed up the muscles she did some posture work with me. What she was showing me is that I try and lift from my mid-back, not my hips and legs, so I don't use my centre (hara).

I was musing on the AA proverb

"You don't think yourself into a new way of acting, you act yourself into a new way of thinking"

and it got me thinking about how posture patterns and thinking patterns are related.

I've just done the latest level 2 course with Wendy Palmer. It was a fantastic weekend as usual, with Wendy demostrating by her presence, just as much as her words what this stuff is all about and how it has the possibility of changing the world for the better.

Space is Ground

Wendy's theme this time was 'Space is Ground'.

feel this work allows us ;

    * freedom in our bodies
    * more choice
    * more space around personality
 

I've just been assisting on the 'Binds' module of the clean change company's training. One defintiion of a  bind is:

"a pattern of behaviour that you feel unable to change that repeats over time that is unhelpful"

An addiction would be a good example of a bind in real-life. Feeling compulsed by something inside to continue to do something even when we know that it's not something we really want to do. There's a feeling of helplessness.