Annette Bray


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By Annette Bray 07 May, 2024
No one plans to feel pain or discomfort, but inevitably all of us come to know it at times in our life. We feel physical pain and emotional discomfort, and until we develop the awareness of how we feel and behave in our bodies, we tend to be perplexed at where it came from. Releasing your physical and emotional pain are not contingent on telling an old story in the past...it's dependent you feeling the emotion that developed from it. Pain develops if you don’t integrate a traumatic experience. The source of your posture or countenance is emotion yet to be seen, held without judgement and transformed to the free and authentic expression you're capable of in mind and body. I have always loved to feel the free movement of my body, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, running, rock climbing, skiing or dancing. For the past 15 years I've had a challenging relationship with movement because of the patterns of resistance I've discovered. When I take the time to be present with these blocks, whether in the stillness of meditation or in movement, I become aware of the patterns and ultimately give it an avenue for liberation. The solution is following impulse...the impulse of the heart. One of the most healing approaches of trauma resolution is to do exactly this...to give yourself permission to feel and move according to what you're being guided to by internal wisdom. The literal feeling of our physical heart space coupled with present awareness to what we are receiving through our senses, enables wise impulse to arise. When you are in some form of quiet contemplation or movement, this way of following impulse is self instructive. Yes, professionals like myself understand function and form which is so important for finding physical and emotional alignment. AND...your internal signals allow you to move in ways that feel and are better for you. The heart is such a potent center for each of us. I would love to help teach you how to step into this dormant power center within you. Please reach out to me and message me on FB if you feel called to understand more... Or set up a call with me... Wishing you well :)
By Annette Bray 29 Apr, 2024
We have several sense organs in our body that continually give us input from our environment. Many people are subconsciously drawing in low quality input as our patterns of thought and emotion only enable our awareness of what we don't like. And then our motor actions and behaviors are, unfortunately, in kind. Your eyes are sense organs that occupy significant amounts of real estate in your brain...if you are fortunate enough to still have your sight. How you take in with your eyes and interpret the experience has a massive impact on how your body/mind behaves. You can look at what you see and react through a patterned response that assumes the same ole' worst case scenario. And, when you move the body from this same patterned way of "seeing", you will get the same painful experience. The body/mind needs repetitious novel, present and curious input to create a new and functional pattern. Your physical form does so well with this approach. And the input of the eyes in this way (coupled with guidance of alignment), can dramatically improve the quality of how you move and how that makes you feel. I'll be demonstrating this later in the week on my FB live . For now, if you have questions or want to share what you've tried in this area, please reach out to me . Helping others transform how their body/mind feels is what I truly love to do...
By Annette Bray 22 Apr, 2024
Here's one behavior I've seen consistently in my 25 year profession in health and wellness. Individuals set big goals to be achieved within a small window of time. The end result is often falling short of the goals and then throwing out the entire routine that gets them to their goal point. The reason for giving up altogether has something to do with some form of self-judgement, coupled with a lack of understanding that pattern change is achieved through repetition. And that a huge quantity of changes at once overwhelms our neural endocrine (nervous and hormone) system which drives thought, feeling and action. You've heard it said that we only use 5% of our brain. More precisely put, 95% of our brain function is subconscious. Without gaining deeper awareness of the emotional and physical patterns that are at play, we run these programs on autopilot. A lot of our automatic patterns are great! I don't want to have to think about breathing or digesting food. But what I do want to think, feel and act upon, are patterns that move me out of pain in my body and mind. This is where the small things committed to daily create the big changes that decrease our discomfort and move us towards our dreams. A body that feels and holds the posture of the version of you that wants to be active and live out your desires, is the one that can show up to do just this. This is the transformation I love to see in others. I'm not a stranger to challenge, but of course who is? I have just made it my life's work to be as present and committed to all I've learned so I can grow and ultimately help others. Please reach out to me to explore the possibilities if this resonates with you. And I'll be putting this into practice this Friday on my FB live. Much love to you :)
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