Does Feldenkrais help with stress?

Highly sensitive people, or HSPs, are those who have a strong response to stimuli, such as sound, light, space, touch, and temperature.

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Your Core is Not Your Master

If you can contract the abdominal muscles strongly, it doesn't mean you can use them efficiently.

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How Change Happens

Anyone who's dieted or tried to quit smoking or drinking knows that it's very difficult to will yourself to change.

The Centipede and Reverse Effort

How trying harder makes us succeed less.

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Track it to change it

It’s not just big data. We, too, can track information and tweak our nervous system.

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Listen to Your Body

How unconscious priorities damage our health.

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Dementia and Living in the Moment

The challenges of living in the moment and how to face hard truths when it fades.

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Freedom from Compulsion

Sensing myself more fully helped me become less neurotic.

Willpower vs. Compassion

Compassion has been shown to increase perseverance on difficult tasks by over 30 percent.

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Where did my strength go?

When we feel weak, it is often because our muscles are constantly firing and we can’t access our energy.

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How to Move Your Arm

Learning to use your arm is better than being corrected.

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Creativity, Memory, and Staying Young

How forgetting helps us move better.

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Help! There's No Meaning in This!

The Feldenkrais Method creates a blank slate, a neutral ground, from which we can reinvent ourselves again and again. I know this is what helped me get through difficult times.

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Synapses and Sea Slugs

How to really learn instead of just absorb information.

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The Power of Inquiry

For me, inquiry is at the heart of what it means to be human. As Moshe says, "One has to set about learning to learn as is befitting for the most important business in human life.”

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How to think for yourself

When you're in pain, injured, or limited for some reason, the thing you knew how to do without thinking becomes an impenetrable conundrum. What to do?

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