Unit 8- My Practices

The two practices I enjoyed the most were Loving Kindness and Visualizations exercises.  I used Loving Kindness as a back after doing the other meditations.   When I find myself losing cite of my intentions or getting overwhelmed by my emotions, I would return to the Loving Kindness exercise to calm myself down.  It also allows me to measure my progress of improving self-awareness and self-healing. 

I now know that I need to continue these exercises daily.  It is so gratifying to notice the change in my life in the moment during and after the exercise and than going thru my day and noticing my behavior toward different situations has changed or changing.  At first I was scared of the new self-discoveries and how I am handling things differently now.  I get so excited I want to share it with someone, but most people I know don’t do such exercises as we have done in class and I am sure there is much more to come.  They can’t relate to experiences in the way I see them now.  So I just want to say, thank you class and professor for allowing me to share my experience with you and sharing yours.

As far as my clients, I know for sure I will be implemented visual mediation in my work.  I am already teaching Awareness To Moving (ATM) lessons through the Feldenkrais method and I always believed that every emotion has a positions.  I hope to help people recognize their habitual positions when the emotions are negative and teach them how to explore other options of space within there reach that is accessible to them. Furthermore the only way to learn Feldenkrais method is to do the movement your self.  With that being said for each ATM lesson I teach, I have to explore my own awareness to recognize the connections to be able to explain it to others.  The more classes I teach, the more learning and awareness of me.  I have a big lesson plan!