"transformation begins with two commitments: the courage to try new things and act in new ways the honesty to no longer hide from or lie to ourselves". - yung pueblo   Much of my work to help others has come from integrating neuroscience research and application, and the journey of learning how to navigate life, particularly when it comes to challenges rooted in childhood experiences of unsafety... an unfolding work in progress. The last two seasons of podcasts focused on the internal world - emotions, sensations, and the interconnectedness of systems of past, present and future. This season, I'll be focusing on biomechanics and motor systems. Listen on Spotify Listen on iTunes Listen on Blubrry   Movement and Communication: the basis of your survival Your first experience of life was in a liquid environment. There was nowhere for you to go, nothing in particular you needed to do to get your needs met. You floated and ingested. As you left the womb, you entered a new environment. The cord was cut. Air separated you from all things. You needed to find a way to get your needs met, and deal with gravity, inertia and momentum.  To do this, your machinery equipped you with two mechanisms:  movement and communication. Movement meant that, over time, you would move the bones of your body to grasp, climb, crawl and locomote. Communication meant that you could increase your chances of survival by sending and receiving signals with others to benefit from their abilities and resources that you were not able to obtain yourself. These two mechanisms, movement and communication, are what kept you alive. They’re what keep you alive today.  They are also the basis of vibrations that you send out into the world. Movement and communication are mechanical translations of your internal world into external vibrations* * Movement and communication are different than thinking, feeling and sensing; * They are mechanical outputs that cause vibrations in the air around you * These vibrations are caused by moving bones via skeletal muscles, such as in your voice, face, breath, hands, and body. * These vibrations can be perceived by others * These mechanical outputs are translations of what is going inside of you *Blood vessels, internal fluids and organs are all moving within you at every moment.  These are internal movements that send subtle frequencies into the air around you - detectable to us in unconscious and sometimes conscious ways (such as smell, pupil dilation and blushing), and sometimes by instruments we create that amplify the waves (eg., heart beat, brainwaves). These play a role in motor commands, but are different than movement and communication in the sense I am using, which is tied to voluntary motor control.  The control mechanisms of Initiation and Inhibition have powerful impacts on our daily life, mental health and relationships As we practice and understand the machinery of our body and what we can control and adjust, the better we can get at initiating when we want to initiate and inhibiting when we want to inhibit. This applies not only to movement of our entire bodies, but also the movements we make as we communicate with each other When it comes to initiation and movement, we can learn to move in ways that get closer to what we ...