Did you forget it can feel good to move?

It feels good to move, doesn’t it? How easily you can forget that. If you’ve been sitting for most of the day and, for no reason at all, get up and go for a walk, do you find your mood changing? That’s because it feels good to move!

When you’re on a long drive and stop halfway and get out of your car, what do you do? You stretch your limbs up and out and breathe deeply, ”ahhhhhhh! It feels so good to stretch! It feels so good to move!”

If moving your body gets mixed up with pain from work or from life or disease, that narrows your focus.You’ll forget how good it can feel to move because your experience of movement is now synonymous with pain. But that’s only some movement. There’s so much more that can still feel good.Perhaps you’re not connected to it right now but it’s still there. It’s waiting for you to enjoy it.

Reconnecting with the joy of moving brings more pleasure into your day and reduces your stress. That’s why I teach the Alexander Technique: to help others reconnect with the freedom, ease and joy of moving. That freedom and pleasure is there beyond your pain, beyond your stress. It’s like a secret power you can bring into your life.

As you go through your day there’s so much seemingly mundane movement. But when you understand your body through the Alexander Technique these “mundane” movements turn into secret dances of pleasure. When you’re reaching for the phone, picking up a pen, opening a door, or even typing on your computer, you’re moving. When you bring a gentle awareness to your activities and understand how to release your body into freedom you’ll reconnect to the pleasure of moving.Then it will feel good to move! You’ll still get your tasks accomplished. You’ll still open the door and finish that email. But now there’ll be a secret little joy in the back of your mind that’s loving moving. You’ll infuse your day with bouts of pleasure and you’ll remember: it feels so good to move!