You may’t separate pressure in a single a part of your physique from pressure in your complete being. However sourcing mobility and ease in a single place will unfold all through the entire!
Welcome to my journey by way of the 12 cranial nerves. September is all in regards to the third cranial or “oculomotor” nerve which controls a lot of the doable motions of your eye could make. Within the illustration above, the oculomotor nerve is the thickest one, and you may see that it branches into 4 separate nerves for 4 completely different muscle tissues. Final week’s submit lined this and affords a video with a 4 step train.
I discover that for a lot of of my college students and mentees, there are two parts of “sight.” One in every of them now we have minimal alternative about, and the opposite now we have a number of alternative about:
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- 1. What we see: you may select the place you look, however not what’s current. What’s there may be there. Even in the event you didn’t watch the information this previous Saturday, everyone knows it was the anniversary of 9/11.
- 2. How we see: the standard of your sight is affected by your nervous system: what state of stability it’s in, what sort of vitality is flowing by way of it, and the place that vitality is flowing in direction of.
For those who didn’t get an opportunity final week, you may experiment with the motions it creates by watching the video, which I bought some nice suggestions about. A well-known Alexander trainer wrote me: “Sure, sure, sure! Thanks a lot for this present! My eyes have been so drained after instructing on zoom for a 12 months, and my neck was tight, I had completely misplaced all kinesthetic consciousness!”
Mainly, due to straining to see, she misplaced the sensation sense of her physique. Are you able to relate? Not feeling your physique has a disorienting and nervousness producing impact. We all know we’re anxious, however we don’t know why.
Don’t fear. You will get your feeling again fairly simply. It’s a bit surprising, in the event you decelerate and take a while to discover, to find that visible pressure is not only within the eyes. It impacts your total musculature.
The excellent news is, with some aware experimenting and observe, you may change the ordinary pressure. Your nervous system is designed to do – and to un-do. Do that experiment (It’s completely different than the video – shorter and easier):
- 1. Squeeze or squint your eyes (with them open or closed) just a bit bit. (I don’t need you to hurt your delicate eye by squeezing too arduous.)
- 2. Open your consciousness to your complete physique. Is it simply your eyes which might be squinting? I discover I can really feel all of it the way in which all the way down to my toes!
- 3. Don’t attempt to calm down your eyes fully. Simply undo 5% of the squint. How does the remainder of your physique reply?
- 4. Maintain undoing the squint by small 1 – 5% increments. Little by little, chances are you’ll discover your complete physique un-squinting! Cease everytime you really feel happy :-).
I discover that my decrease again, neck, legs, and even my respiratory are all affected by this tiny motion. I practiced the train at the very least as soon as a day, every single day this week. By Friday I discovered myself rather more in a position to forestall visible pressure earlier than it bought an opportunity to take maintain, even when engaged on the pc all day lengthy.
Think about what it’s like to have the ability to undo this sort of pressure inside every nerve pathway! It’s paradoxical that by exploring every separate nerve, we will discover extra concord inside our complete physique. However that’s how it’s! I can do it after I’m sitting on the subway, watching TV, and even after I go for my run. Need to get some knowledgeable steerage? Beneath are all of the methods you can join with me.
(P.S. If you wish to get a brilliant low-cost introduction to my Cranial Nerve Sequencing work, I’ll be main particular workshop to profit the Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund, which pays 50% of tuition prices for black, indigenous, and other people of colour to coach as Alexander Method lecturers. You may go HERE to search out out extra and enroll.)