09/15/2025
New blog post! ( I have pasted it below, because sometimes the mobile link does not open my blog posts)
Finding Your Inner Balance, Goldilocks Style
Are you holding an area too tightly? Too loosely? Are you feeling too bound, or too floppy?
I invite you to turn your attention to internal sensation in particular areas.
Pick an area, let's say the right side and back of your neck. Is there anything that you can notice about that area? Does it feel bound/constricted? Does it feel too floppy? Do you sense/feel nothing?
Now check in with the left side and back of your neck. Does it feel the same to you as your right side?
Do you notice a feeling of ease in either or both sides? Are you able to notice/identify anything at all?
For Goldilocks, the porridge was too hot or too cold. Then she found one that was "just right".
For us, our postural patterns become habitual; we adjust to them, and often do not pay them much attention. Sometimes we may notice that an area feels too tight/grabbed or too loose/lacking in support, but we may not know how to change that, how to bring that area into a sense of feeling "just right".
Turning attention to areas and being able to notice, sort out, and identify, what one is feeling is something people can learn how to do.
Once we can identify sensation, we can begin to shift from "too tight" or "too loose" to "just right". We can begin to notice things we had not noticed before- for example, before you might have noticed that your lower back always hurts by the afternoon, and now you might notice that it starts hurting after you have been sitting in a certain way. Now you can explore different ways to sit that are more comfortable for your lower back, or closer to "just right".
Finding Inner Balance is, in some ways, like bringing those places of discomfort to the state of being "just right".
Additionally, Finding Inner Balance can bring more ease and increased proper functioning into all of our body systems/functions- our organs, nervous system, breathing, exchange of gases, and more, which in turn, brings us morer into the state of feeling "just right".
We are dynamic, moving, changing, beings. We are not static, like a piece of furniture. Have you ever watched someone walk across a tightrope or a balance beam? They are not holding themselves stiff and unmoving, like that piece of furnitre. Rather, there is constant adjustment (usually a series of tiny movements, shifts).
Our bodies are designed to continuously adjust as we move or rest in stillness.
Yes, receiving a wonderful therapeutic bodywork session can bring us into Inner Balance, and there is much wonderfullness and validity in such sessions.
Finding Your Inner Balance on your own is a skill that, with attention and practice, can be learned.
Our Inner Balance can remain a constant, but what we do to achieve that can vary, as we make tiny. continuous, adjustments as we move and rest in stillness.
