Smile at Feldenkrais: awareness through movement

Smile at FeldenkraisFacial muscles differ from all others in that most of them are involved mainly in the implementation of social / communicative function, they are not "make work" in the usual sense. The usual manner of use of these muscles tells you and others about your attitude, feelings and thoughts, and bears the imprint of how you use your whole body. In this lesson, we study the muscles of the mouth, ears, nose and entire face in General in their interaction, when we smile.

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The lesson allows you to experience how diverse and interconnected our facial expressions and gives you the ability to make a person truly alive. In addition, this lesson will help to lighten the mood, because in it you have to smile in different ways. The lesson is quite large, you can divide it into two, this will allow you to focus on running movements and not lose interest.

1. Start with, look at yourself in the mirror… Check your facial expression and the tension. What your face tells you and the world?

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Then lie on your back on the floor (or sit in a chair, as you prefer) and close your eyes. Notice how your body is in contact with the floor, notice the area of the face, neck, eyes — what expression do you have now on the face, raised or lowered corners of mouth, what feelings match your face?

2. Gently cover your eyes and mouth and start easily to move the attention from your face. What is included in the area of the face? Ears? Forehead? Throat? Neck? Whiskey? Just a note to myself, where does the border of the face and starts "nelico".

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3. Move the attention to the corners of your mouth. Can you feel both sides at once? Try to answer the following questions: Can one be more clearly felt, than another? If one moves more easily than the second? Which corner is in front, and some higher — left or right?

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Try a little smile — what you feel about it? Run a small smiling movement 8-10 times, noticing what voltage you need to remove that smile became a little wider. What happens to you in the cheeks? Near the nose and eyes? After movements, relax your face.

4. Place right index finger on the right edge of the mouth, near the area where is formed a dimple on his cheek. Again smile slowly, and feel the muscles under your finger. What path describes the area of your mouth when you smile? Aside? Up? Down? Do you feel like moving cheek on your teeth? Small smiling repeat the movement, pressing his finger in order to guide the movement in the most easy direction. Do the movement several times, and then just move your finger corner of his mouth up, down, right, left — slowly and smoothly changing direction.

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To relax release the lower jaw, notice how it changes your feeling now. Then you can repeat the movement of the corner of his mouth on the opposite side of the face.

5. Place right index finger on the area of the right cheekbone (where the front part of the face moves to the side) and repeat the movement described earlier smiling, helping the finger move, exploring all directions. Relax. Similar manipulations can be performed with the dot on the left cheekbone. After a rest, notice the sensations in your face.

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6. Move the attention to the outer corners of your eyes. Can you feel both sides at once? Is one a clearer perception than the other? Which one moves more easily?

Which corner is in front of another? What is above? Try to smile a little and feel how easy it is you get.

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Then, touch your right index finger near the right corner of the right eye. Again smile slowly, and feel the muscles under your finger. What path describes the area of the eyes when smiling? Up or down? Or he goes outside?

Continue to slowly repeat small movement and smiling a little push with your finger to facilitate the movement in the easiest direction. Perform this movement several times, and then just paisleyite movement of the finger moves the corner of the eye relative to the skull in all directions: up, down, right, left, sometimes with a smile, sometimes against the movement of the muscles when you smile.

Repeat these movements 8-10 times, smooth. How to behave while your eyes are moving they refocussed whether vision? Let them move freely and change direction several times.

Relax, paying attention to the new, more precise feeling in the face. Repeat this step on the left side.

7. Move your attention to two holes in my ears. Is one closer to the face than the other (in your perception)? And in relation to the line of the spine? What is closer to the top? Whether they are above or below the nostrils?

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Repeat the smiling movement. Do you participate in this ears? Place a finger to each ear and make you smile. "Help" your fingers in your ears: every time you smile, move them a little forward, backward, up, down. What "help" were the most interesting? Relax.

8. Place the fingers (one or both hands) on the bridge of his nose and smile. How does the nose? Try to move the skin of the nose in different directions when you smile. Down, up, left, right. Quite strange, isn't it? Let go and let the muscles to rest.

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9. Place the fingers on the lower jaw below the mouth (fingers on the face, thumbs under the chin), and smile a few times.
These little muscles are doing under your hands? Let your jaw relax, just open, feeling with his hands, as acting muscles.

With a slightly ajar jaw smiling repeat the movement several times. Feel the movement of the muscles.
Then move on to the earlobes (still keeping them on the jaw) and there paisleyite opening and closing of the jaws. Gradually make the movement bigger, if you can do it without increasing effort.

Now feel the difference in the movement of muscles meanwhile when you open your jaw when you smile. Several times.
And then just opening and closing the jaw, feeling the movement of the jaw arms.

Now move the attention to the salivary ulusam, area under tongue near the molars, and consciously relax them. You will find that your mouth was moistened a bit more and it became easier to smile. Relax.

Notice the sensations and expressions of your face.

10. Just put your hands on your knees. Hands will Scrivia mouth to the corners of the mouth turned downward. How are the rest of the muscles of the face? Sticks out lower lip?

Smile. And again frown with your mouth. That expression several times. How to react is your eyes? Can you smile only with your mouth, no eyes? Only eyes, no mouth?

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Can you nahmuril eyes and smiling mouth? Not like it is crying? Then again just let the person rest for a few seconds.

11. Keep your eyes and forehead in a "smiling" position and move the corners of the mouth and lower part of the face between the expression of a smile and sorrow.
Do these movements several times until they are able to quickly and easily. Then change the expression to eyes were "nemurenai" and mouth continue to move from smiling to frowning again several times.

Then make a smile, hold it a little bit, and relax.

12.Paisleyite smile right part of your mouth and right eye. Then the left part of the mouth and left eye. Which side smiling easier? Have you begun to smile it is this side? How the eye usually you winking at me? Can you quickly and easily change these smiling motion — first the left, then the right?

After you can repeat the same thing, but with a "sahariana".

13. Move attention to the right part of the face. Study smile the right eye while the right corner of the mouth pointing down. And Vice versa — eyes frowned upon, the corner of his mouth smiling. Can the left side to remain passive?

Repeat on the other side, the left eye and the left corner of his mouth, while the right side remains passive. Relax.

14.Now paisleyite a smile on one side of the face and simultaneous Nagarjuna the other half. And vice versa. It's pretty easy, so no hurry (in fact many people do so out of habit, but our right hemisphere that recognize patterns, mainly recognize the right person, so we often don't notice). After that, relax.

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15. Keep your eyes closed and smile, especially the eyes. Hold your smile. From this position, keeping your head straight, move your eyes (only eyes) is right and left. What is the trajectory of the eye — line with the edges up, down, or flat line? Interesting, isn't it? What if you change it — frown with your eyes and eyebrows and move your eyes left and right. On a path moving eyes now?

In conclusion, simply let the face relax, shift your attention to the entire face at once and the sensations of the whole body. What has changed since the beginning of the lesson? Look at yourself in the mirror and note the changes there. published  

 

P. S. And remember, just changing your mind - together we change the world! ©

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