A New Frontier for the Total Woman

 The brain controls all your movements, both conscious and unconscious.    

Ninety five percent of your daily movement is unconscious.  When you pick up a cup of coffee or drive a car, you don’t have to think HOW, you just do.   When you are under anesthesia, did you know that the doctors who are operating on you can move your bones to do the Chinese splits?  That is because your brain is turned off.  You awake and your brain won’t let YOU do the Chinese splits. This is the system I will be discussing.  The automatic, unconscious, involuntary system or the nervous system and how it relates to optimal human function.

I used to be a workout fanatic. I taught up to 20 aerobic and step classes a week. I was a runner, skier, weightlifter, boxer and bodybuilder.  I even won aerobic and body building competitions.  My clients even had excellent results.   I thought I had arrived at my peak potential.  Yet, it seemed like there was something missing.  I couldn’t put my finger on it.  But then again, you can’t put ‘your finger on the ‘missing piece’ which is your pelvic floor!

This amazing and invisible pelvic floor muscle is located inside of you at the hip bone level and is the floor of the true core.  It is the main support muscle for your bladder, bowel and uterus.  It is also the precursor of all movement, the trigger.

It connects your inner core to your outer core.  THIS was the missing piece I needed to feel complete and empowered.   Literally and figuratively.

I was also in an emotional state of distress.   I was exhausted from my relationships with men, and something had to change.

So I went on a fast to change my pallet emotionally and physically.

I needed a different habitat to be able to encourage new connections in my brain to make the changes within myself.  So I moved to the sea.

I was worn emotionally and physically.  From men to men 0 pause!

So I went on my own Eat, Pray, Love, adventure.   Though it was more like Eat, Pray, Pray more and hope for the best sort of experience.

I also knew that if I was going to make any lasting changes, I had to start looking at things differently.

I wanted a relationship that flowed, seemed effortless and felt right.  I didn’t realize that I could move my body the same way, flowed effortlessly and right.

While in the midst of searching for my authentic self in mind and body as I knew it, I met a woman who changed my life.  A doctor.   An OBGYN, she was teaching a pelvic floor workshop.  What is a pelvic floor?   I went anyway.

I knew ALL about the conscious control of the body.  She knew everything about unconscious control of the body.  So there I was. After three fascinating days, I was awestruck!

We started to work privately together as she mentored me with her latest research on the brains unconscious and endless abilities with the body.  She spent hours and hours educating in hopes to bring me up to speed with at least a smidgeon of her vast knowledge.  This was a great gift to me, and still is.

We talked about human development, evolutionary aspects of the pelvis and how the brain plays the lead role.  She took brain and movement to another level.

The first thing she told me was that if I wanted to start ‘feeling’ my emotions I had to remove my belly button ring.   What?!  I considered my belly button ring like a fat gauge.    In my mind, if I wore a belly button ring I would be more conscious about my tummy not protruding.   Right? Doesn’t that make sense? Not anymore.

I didn’t’ ask questions.   I trusted her and the journey and removed the belly button ring immediately.  Nothing was going to stand in the way of my emotions.

I had to go there, it was  scary, but I had to go deep into my guts, anything to help my transformation.

The journey to the center of my being, my core, my authentic personhood.  The place where correct movement begins.

After a few years of mentoring privately with Dr. Theresa Nesbitt, I noticed changes with my body that I literally had no conscious control over.   My unconscious brain started to change.  As I became more aware, everything started coming together.  There are pre- activations and activations of the body.  I learned about intention and conviction with regards to optimal movement in a physiological way.

This new knowledge seemed to parallel and make sense in other areas of my life.

Intention and conviction!  I like that. My brain started integrating the new data on optimal human function.

Then, my body started to change without my conscious control.  My face started to soften and my poochy tummy began to disappear and my booty started hoisting itself up.  I felt lighter on my feet.

Everything seemed easier and effortless.   I started moving my body more efficiently with better function in everyday life. I stopped working out like a mad woman.

What happened?  My brain had changed and my body followed accordingly.

I felt well within myself more than ever.

When your brain changes, everything changes.

When you are well within, you become more confident, secure, authentic, articulate, passionate, move with effortless grace and most of all, Empowered.

In order for me to find the right relationship with myself and others, change had to begin with me.  I had to open my mind, pull up my bootstraps, strap up my suitcase and forge ahead.

When I learned that the automatic part of the brain was responsible for accessing the pelvic floor muscle, or rather, the strongest of the 3 layers, I became more intrigued.  My brain started to change even more.   In the scientific world this is called Neuroplasticity.

Even at 90 years old your brain can change! It is not hardwired.

When your brain changes, so does your body, your movement your actions, reactions, thoughts, plans and everything else in between.  Clearly it is the forefront of all movement in thought and action.

“Studies have shown, even when children are born with mental disabilities, the damaged brain can often reorganize itself so that when one part fails, another can often substitute.  That if brain cells die, they can at times be replaced; that many ‘circuits’ and even basic reflexes that we think are hardwired are not.”  The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge.

I am still on this journey into a new frontier.  I hope you will join me when YOU are ready.  Until then, here’s a brain exercise for you.

 Practice a perpetuation of high quality, purposeful movements with a clear focus with a happy disposition.  This practice will soon disengage the old neuropathways which no longer serve you. Soon the new connections will cement and lead you straight towards your hearts desires.