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May your day be filled with the presence that being present affords every interaction you have! 😎💫✨

"Life is not a stable process. Our ability to recover is our greatest quality." –Moshe Feldenkrais Class Details: April 12-Jun 14. Ten week class. Sundays, 10:30am-12:00pm. Jacksonville OR theresiliencezone.com/atm2026 Register now: mindmovinglearning.com/event/weekly...

Dear Algo: plz. Send me people tired of being in pain who want answers without being lied to, omissions of truth, or bending the knee.

Surviving trauma doesn't feell like a win. It feels more like being a pirate, an outlaw, in a system that suppresses authentic freedom among people who cow tow to the prevailing winds of public sentiment. It is not comfortable. It is not safe. But, by God, it gives you self-respect!

"What's your Writers's brand?" What a strange question! Can you imagine Tolkien or CS Lewis having to deal with this crap? No. Not. Yet, each of them had a definitive flavor, a taste if you will that fed the soul, that still feeds the soul!

The intensity and dysregulation of these times requires special attention to self-care and self inquiry.

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Don't waste the opportunity. Timing is everything! The Solstice is now! Grab a piece of paper. Write down everything you're ready to let go of: all the people, the situations, the crises, the negativity, the crap, the stuff, the non-negotiable I-am-so-done- with-this stuff. Work your pen! Burn it! ✨

Dr. van der Kolk argues that to manage trauma, one must engage the entire organism—body, mind & brain—moving beyond traditional talk therapy. Feldenkrais >Literally< gives you the skill to use awareness through movement to relax the hypertonic fight/flight response.

"Many of us in this modern, dominant culture of North America walk around with a deep 'elder hunger' but we don't recognize it as such until we meet someone willing to elder." Are you willing to elder? Do you own the literacy of your embodied experience?

Do you listen to your body? Are you more sore on 1 side of your back than the other? Lay on the floor & just roll from side to side gently, slowly. Can you sense which side is painful? STOP. That's feedback. Roll to the other side. Put your leg over the other. & roll to where it feels delicious!

Dis-Ease is caused by the buildup in body, mind & spirit of that which you would want to relinquish anyway. They cause stagnation. Therefore, release deliberately with deep Cleansing Breaths every day...Dishes pile up. Laundry accumulates. Why would you not treat tension with the same attention? 🌬️

Today's Supermoon marks a major Choice Point: Go Beyond the Scattering Noise into the Restful Silence Within to Discern the Truth. Don't let others define it for you. At this Karmic bending of Reality Choose to Release the Old Order. Choose to Embrace Your Highest Good.

The Feldenkrais method - It's amazing. It's so good that it sounds too good to be true: it reduces friction in your joints, it releases unconscious tension from years & years of unconscious habit, it allows for greater balance at any age. And I am living proof of that. at 64

Stress creates unconscious tension. Tension results in compression on delicate nerves. Compression means PAIN. To STOP the cycle, you have to be willing to learn to relax. DEEP relaxation, not just watching videos.

When your motives are clean and not attached to some force of coercive manipulation, or some sense of denial, or some sense of should, life is just easier, it's just more fun.

So most of the issues that plague you can be tracked long before they become a major issue. But we are taught to ignore the feedback until it becomes a $4,000 medical bill. Stop that.

Excruciating pain in the hand shouldn't mean you have to get carpal tunnel surgery. It usually starts in the shoulder or in the neck, but most people don't know this.

If we can't find a way to enjoy the life we have left, even if what's gone before has been difficult, what's the point? Right?

RELAXATION. Most people are too busy, having been conditioned to put work before pleasure, and production before quality of life, to even consider relaxing as something as vital as good sleep. Hello. What are you doing to relax?

Chronic pain management involves... 1. Medications...NO 2. Nerve Blocks...NO 3. Psychological Therapies... NO There's an easier, more pleasant way. relinquish the conditioning: Pain: Your Body Keeps the Score:

TONUS. In most people, the tonus in their muscles far exceed what's necessary. Tonus is the contraction of the anti-gravitational muscles at rest; these are the muscles that counteract gravity. This means you are using far more energy than necessary, but you can reset tonus if you know how.

How to manage pain: TENSION. Most people never take the time to scan their body, or even just the face, to notice if they are holding tension that could consciously be released.

Release this assumption that there is a magic cure. Learn to to align with the flow & move effortlessly toward greater expansion & a new reality. You already have the tools you need inside yourself. You just need to train them.

Do you know anyone who seems to have had some unnecessary medical interventions? Who's pushing that?

The first principle that you need to understand is that your body is a self organizing mechanism. It wants to heal. That's its job to protect you and keep you functioning. Doctors know this. Why do they deflect your attention from this foundational understanding?

Sometimes a gentle reminder helps ground you when the world is too insane to contemplate. Remember, Peace Starts Within, or simply, PSW, PSW, PSW...

Talk is cheap. Only a somatic approach for releasing trauma, can free you from chronic pain, especially the grief that has come out of relentless changes to the world we live in. Try it. Search for me on YT.

Complete the feedback loop of what your body is trying to tell you. Instead of treating your body as if it were a thing that only others can influence, reclaim your sovereignty by by learning how to address chronic tension.

when you feel threatened, when you feel shame or anger you can’t explain, when you mask your true feelings to fit in, or when you find yourself repeating patterns that hurt you, over and over again. That's NOT " Amore!" That's Trauma.😢

Friday update: Sentience - the less you use it, the more you lose it.

Here's the replay of the NWW Stress Less, Thrive: Somatic Principles that release pain & trauma without drugs, without taking years & often, without words. Plus, a somatic approach allows people to regain their sovereignty, their innate wisdom & agency. newworldwomen.com/nww-live-repla…

Pain is a wake up call. Listen early so the universe doesn't hit you on the head with a baseball bat. The sooner you do, the sooner you're free. train yourself because the conditioning is to ignore it. Support for self-care instead of sick care: experiential proof of new ease & expansion. You Be You

✍️If you find discussions about writing from a writer's point of view something it's hard to find once the MFA is over, join us! Every Th 8:30-10:20am PT. “Shut up & Write” free peer writing weekly with brief discussion of an element of craft & process - registration: link.msgsndr.com/sp/aa731ce4c6a

Really cool:

Man vs. society: suddenly the world changes & becomes unrecognizable. Once democratic countries have implemented controls over free speech, are manipulating the weather & restricting people's freedom to make their own healthcare choices. Oh, wait, that's not fiction. That's non-fiction!🤦‍♀️🔔

Love is a frequency not a feeling. So you can tune into it even with people who have harmed you. In the same way that the love you feel for those you've lost is eternal, the effects of the love you give to others is permanent.

"Nonviolence is a powerful & just weapon, which cuts without wounding & ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals." - ML King Jr. real change happens when we choose nonviolence (love in action). America: Rise to a higher Consciousness than riot! 🔔❤️ The pen is mighty than the sword!

Fact a stranger than fiction! This meme sounds like life in 2025: completely unrecognizable as the same world we lived in just seven years ago!🤦‍♀️🔔💫🕊️

"Nonviolence is a powerful & just weapon, which cuts without wounding & ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals." - ML King Jr. real change happens when we choose nonviolence (love in action) over violence. America: Rise to a higher Consciousness than riot! 🔔❤️

Isn't it ironic? AI defining something it can never experience!🤦‍♀️😂😎🤣🌱⭐️💫

Math is an Intl. Language. Repeat #s create a portal: 11/11. You have free will. If you say it means nothing, it does. If you recognize it brings momentum,it does. Polarization is due to belief systems. Align yourself with Divine Truth: it doesn't require belief. This is the way out of this mess

I love the life of the mind. I love logic. I love critical thinking. But it is not the highest law. It is like a hammer, a tool, a servant. Your gut, that tells Truth. When your body speaks its mind you must learn to listen. 🧵

To Rise above the fear is like taking oxygen away from 🔥fire. 🔥Vibe higher. How? Know who you are: reclaim the divinity you have been conditioned to deny.🌟

What is modern medicine completely missing? 1. The body is self-organizing 2. Wherever consciousness is directed, it amplifies intention. Attention is the simplest form of love. Your cells know this.

Today's the day! Get rid of the tension hounding you from 1 pain in the neck to another! Few people will get it. Others, so limited by the rigidity of fight/flight hypervigilance are trapped inside their own body. FREEDOM! link.msgsndr.com/sp/409e8633d7b

Complete the feedback loop of what your body is trying to tell you. Instead of treating your body as if it were a thing that only others can influence, reclaim your sovereignty by by learning how to address chronic tension.

You have to create the environment that allows your nervous system to reset itself in the same way that your body knows how to heal an open wound. If you don’t know what to do to create that level of relaxation, join us Sat.