Move into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality - Hardcover

Baniel, Anat

 
9780307395290: Move into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0307395294 ISBN 13: 9780307395290
Verlag: Harmony, 2009

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Remember a time when you were bursting with energy, curiosity, and creativity? When your body felt strong and flexible, free of any aches and pains?

With the Anat Baniel Method, you can feel that way again and experience renewed, intensified vitality–greater health, flexibility, strength, sensuality, clarity of mind, and enthusiasm–now and throughout your life, no matter what your age or physical condition.

Your level of vitality is directly connected to your brain. When your brain thrives, growing and making new connections, you are invigorated, infused with a new sense of aliveness and possibility, capable of infinitely new ways of moving, thinking, and feeling. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience, the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, and her own method based on more than thirty years of experience working with thousands of people around the world, Anat Baniel has defined the Nine Essentials your brain needs to flourish. In this breakthrough book, she offers specific, practical advice for incorporating those Essentials into everything you do to achieve immediate and powerful benefits.

In Move Into Life, you’ll:
• Learn the Nine Essentials your brain requires to thrive, including movement with attention, subtlety, and variation
• Experience simple, safe physical and mental exercises that satisfy those needs and thus awaken your vitality
• Discover why and how these methods work
• Find easy ways of incorporating the Essentials into your daily life so every activity–from washing the dishes to working at your desk, from interacting with your loved ones to your golf game–brings you renewed vitality

Endorsed by leading physicians, scientists, and transformational teachers, the Anat Baniel Method will help you enjoy renewed energy and stamina. You’ll be lighter on your feet. Your memory will be better. Thinking and problem solving will become easier. If you are active in a sport, yoga, or work out at the gym, you will notice yourself performing better and with greater ease and fewer injuries. Most important, you will experience yourself moving more fully into your life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ANAT BANIEL is the director of the Anat Baniel Method Center in San Rafael, California. A clinical psychologist and dancer, she worked closely with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais for more than fifteen years and has helped thousands of people–from five days old to ninety years of age; from high-performance athletes, businesspeople, scientists, and musicians to people worn down by daily stress or aches and pains and those seeking greater joy in their lives–move beyond limitations and achieve greater energy, strength, and success.

Visit the author at www.AnatBanielMethod.com.

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Chapter 1
One  

Movement with Attention-Wake Up to Life  

Nothing happens until something moves.  
—Albert Einstein  

Think of your life as constant movement-millions of small and large movements. Think even beyond the familiar movements associated with your bones and muscles. My teacher, Moshe Feldenkrais-a physicist and judo master who developed a revolutionary mind-body method to help people transcend their limitations-often told his students, "Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable." Through movement, you make sounds, organized in your brain as language, that communicate to others ideas and emotions you are experiencing. Through movement, sometimes when you are alone, sometimes with others, you carry out all the activities associated with your job, profession, family, recreation, and creative expressions.  

Through advanced brain research, we know that our simplest thoughts and feelings involve movement within and among billions of brain cells. Whether it's remembering that you need to pick up your dry cleaning on the way home, or feeling a surge of excitement because it's Friday, or being inspired by music you're hearing on the radio-all these involve movement. Even your daydreams and your dreams at night involve movement. The cumulative result of all this movement is who you are and what distinguishes you from me. What we begin to see as we delve into what movement means in our lives is that the quality of our movements is a manifestation of the quality of the workings of our brains and will ultimately determine the quality and vitality of our lives.  

Where Movement Is Organized  
What gives the continuous movement of our lives the particular form it takes? What organizes the ways you throw back the covers from your bed and swing your legs out to the floor as you begin each new day? What is it that organizes how you put the bread in the toaster as you are getting your breakfast? What organizes how you mutter a foggy "good morning" to your family members? What organizes your patience or impatience as you thread your way through stop-and-go commuter traffic, or how you enunciate your words or use certain facial expressions as you greet people at work? What is it that gives you the power to invent, form attitudes, and develop ideas? And what is it that orchestrates the emotional experiences you are having throughout the day?  

The answer, of course, is your brain, those two to three pounds of gray matter embodied within your skull. Within your brain are billions of brain cells. Each and every one of those cells has the potential for making between five thousand and twenty thousand connections with other cells, all poised to receive and send information to and from all the various parts of your entire system. This is as close to an infinite number of possible brain connections as one can imagine. It is here in your brain that information gathered from your movements is organized, somehow making sense of the myriad messages received-and in a continuous feedback loop that also tells you how to conduct every movement you make.  

Movement is the language of your brain, and your brain is the great organizer of that movement, managing trillions of connections associated with every single action, large or small. The manner in which all of this takes place will determine how you experience your life, whether you feel numbed and deadened or excited and energetic at the end of the day.  

Imagine for a moment the wasted energy you'd expend if your brain organized your every step in a way that required twice the energy that would be required if your movements were better organized. Or imagine that in the process of doing its organizational tasks your brain surrounded your every thought and feeling with a million contradictions that required you to ponder, and perhaps worry over, every little thing. Life would indeed become exhausting. You'd feel drained all the time.  

What we'll discover in this chapter is that the quality of organization that our brains provide us is directly related to the quality of the information we provide it. And one of the most important ways to improve the quality of the information we provide it is through bringing attention to our movements.  

Most, if not all, experts in the health-related fields agree that movement, or what more often is referred to as exercise, is central to our health and continued well-being. We are encouraged to exercise both our bodies and our minds. Yet it is important to note that movement alone, done automatically, without attention, does not provide the brain with any new information. On the contrary, such movement will tend to groove already existing brain patterns more deeply. Over time, that leads to loss of strength and flexibility in both body and mind. We then think that we are losing our vitality due to age, life circumstances, or simply back luck. But not so. The moment we bring attention to our movement, any movement, research shows that the brain resumes growing new connections and creating new pathways and possibilities for us. And that is when we feel most vital.  

Much of what I've learned about vitality and the brain's organizational capacities has come from working with young children born with neurological anomalies, and from adults who have suffered injuries or diseases that continue to cause them pain or a loss of normal function and vitality. Through the work I have done over the past thirty years, I've seen how profoundly important the quality of the organization of movement is-for our bodies, our thoughts, our emotions, and our feelings. Through movement with attention, we gain the ability to assist our brains in seeking the most successful way to manage all movement in our lives.  

Exercise 1     
The Transformational Power of Movement with Attention  

With this simple, short exercise, you can experience firsthand the power of combining attention with movement to transform your performance and your whole sense of yourself. You can then do it in your yoga practice, sports, and everyday movements.      

1.   Sit at the edge of a chair with your feet comfortably flat on the floor and with about a foot of space between them.      
2.   Lift your right arm out in front of you, with your elbow straight but not stiff. Lift it to shoulder level and put it down two times. As you move, pay attention to how it feels. Put your arm down and stop.      
3.   Now do the same movement twice with your left arm, lifting it to shoulder level, with elbow straight, paying attention to how it feels. Then lower your arm and stop.      
4.     Select the arm of your dominant hand and do the rest of this exercise with that arm. If you are right-handed, do the exercise with that arm; if left-handed, use that arm.      
5.   Lift your dominant arm in front of you to shoulder level, with your elbow straight but not stiff. Keep the arm up and begin moving forward with this arm as if you were reaching for something a foot or so away. Make sure to also move forward with your upper body as you do this. Then come back to your upright sitting position. Do these reaching-out and coming-back movements two or three times.      
6. Stop, and come back to your neutral sitting position. Put your arm down and rest for a moment. Feel how you are sitting and how you are breathing.      
7.     Again, lift your dominant arm in front of you to shoulder level and reach out as you did above. Do this two or three times. But this time do something a little differently. As you...

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Verlag
Harmony
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0307395294
ISBN 13 
9780307395290
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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