Move into Life The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality

by BANIEL, ANAT

• ISBN13: 9780307395290
• ISBN10: 0307395294
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-28
• Publisher: Harmony

Summary

Remember a time when you were bursting with energy, curiosity, and creativity? When your body felt strong and flexible, free of any aches and pains? With the Anat Baniel Method, you can feel that way again and experience renewed, intensified vitality - greater health, flexibility, strength, sensuality, clarity of mind, and enthusiasm - now and throughout your life, no matter what your age or physical condition. Your level of vitality is directly connected to your brain. When your brain thrives, growing and making new connections, you are invigorated, infused with a new sense of aliveness and possibility, capable of infinitely new ways of moving, thinking, and feeling. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience, the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, and her own method based on more than thirty years of experience working with thousands of people around the world, Anat Baniel has defined the Nine Essentials your brain needs to flourish. In this breakthrough book, she offers specific, practical advice for incorporating those Essentials into everything you do to achieve immediate and powerful benefits. In Move Into Life, you'll: Learn the Nine Essentials your brain requires to thrive, including movement with attention, subtlety, and variation; Experience simple, safe physical and mental exercises that satisfy those needs and thus awaken your vitality; Discover why and how these methods work; and Find easy ways of incorporating the Essentials into your daily life so every activity - from washing the dishes to working at your desk, from interacting with your loved ones to your golf game - brings you renewed vitality. Endorsed by leading physicians, scientists, and transformational teachers, the Anat Baniel Method will help you enjoy renewed energy and stamina. You'll be lighter on your feet. Your memory will be better. Thinking and problem solving will become easier. If you are active in a sport, yoga, or work out at the gym, you will notice yourself performing better and with greater ease and fewer injuries. Most important, you will experience yourself moving more fully into your life.

Author Biography

ANAT BANIEL is the director of the Anat Baniel Method Center in San Rafael, California. A clinical psychologist and dancer, she worked closely with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais for more than fifteen years and has helped thousands of people–from five days old to ninety years of age; from high-performance athletes, businesspeople, scientists, and musicians to people worn down by daily stress or aches and pains and those seeking greater joy in their lives–move beyond limitations and achieve greater energy, strength, and success.

Visit the author at www.AnatBanielMethod.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Vitality and Youthfulness	p. 5
The Nine Essentials
Movement with Attention-Wake Up To Life	p. 23
The Learning Switch-Bring in the New	p. 48
Subtlety-Experience the Power of Gentleness	p. 81
Variation-Enjoy Abundant Possibilities	p. 106
Slow-Luxuriate in the Richness of Feeling	p. 134
Enthusiasm-Turn the Small into the Great	p. 156
Flexible Goals-Make the Impossible Possible	p. 182
Imagination And Dreams-Create Your Life	p. 206
Awareness-Thrive with True Knowledge	p. 234
Move into Life	p. 253
Notes	p. 263
Bibliography	p. 291
Acknowledgements	p. 295
Index	p. 299
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