Finding a Fascial Pattern using your imagination

If you need to recognize when a muscle pattern engages, and you happen to be a person who needs to notice this with all of your consciousness, there are a few tricks that help. The most important tip is to approach this with an attitude of appreciation for whatever got you into this habit in the first place. No self-scolding! Kindness. The second thing to know is that muscles initiate before you know you have made a decision. This is why the 'imagining' variations are so important in Body Wisdom--they help you see the part of the sequence of your muscle engagement that is the most opaque and the most important--the part where you commit yourself before you actually even know you have decided to move. I encourage you to play with this skill of imagining a movement in your own way, a lot, for fun. And just see…