427 thoughts on “Reconfiguring the Energy of Abuse – all by a Simple Choice”

1. The power of Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is amazing, I love what you share and how even with remote sessions you’ve been able to heal all the abuse through the quality of energy you now choose, and the support your body has in how to move in that way to keep that quality of energy.

2. Many years ago Kate Greenaway supported me with her love, care and wisdom, in helping me with my back problems… or should I say establishing a relationship with my back. I still do the exercises we worked to this day, but more importantly it was understanding the relationship of how I move, how I use my body (especially when moving to a new house like this weekend) that has seen an enduring health and strength that I could only have dreamed of 10 years ago.

3. If Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy (ECTT) exercises were able to support you to change your body image and self loathing issues, then I feel there is enormous potential for ECTT to support children and people worldwide with their body image and self worth issues also. ECTT could become part of psychological treatment plans.

4. When we reconnect to and start honouring our body, major changes that could otherwise only be described as miracles happen naturally, to the degree that the physical body can still accommodate and support them.

5. I love the simplicity of this and how you didn’t have to go into the heavy analysis of your past choices to feel something, but just to decide to pay a bit more attention to that area of your body, and move in a different way.

6. It’s funny how we all know that everything is a choice, but because we don’t really want to be 100% responsible for those choices, we pretend that sometimes things are out of our hands, or we sneak a little blame in, here and there. At least, this is something I know I have done. But we constellate all that goes on in our lives and we are solely responsible for our choices and what comes of them. It’s incredibly powerful to accept that.

7. Connective tissue exercises in my experience are very powerful, what a great commitment to yourself to practise these on a daily basis, ‘It feels a joy to connect to and feel this part of my body, and to be honest when I look down I now smile; there’s a warmth, a tenderness and a love there that I have never felt before, or at least not for a very long time.’

8. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” This is so empowering Gyl. We have chosen our bodily changes and feelings we have, so we can reconfigure them to undo them too. We are amazingly powerful beings when we don’t give our power away.

9. I love this Gyl, when love is lived consistaintly true healing is on offer.

10. Thank you for sharing Gyl. This writing shows us the power and command we have over ourselves if we want to implement the power of free will with ourselves. Just lovely.

11. I love what you’ve shared Gyl, the impact of a simple choice and how this can change an old pattern of abuse which was stored in your body just like any other pattern is. And the simple choice is the practical one but also the choice to deepen the love for yourself and take care of your body, this is why you could commit to this supportive connective tissue exercises program in the first place (I guess).

12. When we choose to connect with our bodies we get to feel parts of ourselves that we have forgotten or ignored. In the re-connection, there is much joy and confirmation as it’s like all of those little cells are saying, yay, its time to celebrate.

13. The simplicity of connection to our bodies uncovers much in regards to our choices, consistency and surrender. To then keep uncovering more and more of who we truly are is simply magic unto itself.

14. Yes change is as simple as moving in a completely different way.

15. There is much we can learn from within when we are willing.

16. Every part and area of our body that we do not shun but rather embrace has a lot to reveal and from that connection, many lasting changes are possible.

17. Being more connected to our bodies, allows us to feel so much more, I have had opportunities to really begin to feel the relationship I have with different parts of my body. It has ben surpassing what has been uncovered, fingers, arms, eyes, feet, my female areas, the front of my thighs…I have had an opinion about them and have been judgemental of them…this is a disconnection, acceptance and care is connection.

18. It continues to fascinate me that making one change to our daily routine can have a massive impact on the rest of our lives. This has certainly been my experience, and demonstrates to me that life changing choices can be simple and achieved one small step at a time.

19. Great what you share about how we can reimprint or shift energy, patterns in our body through movement and awareness, without the ‘wallow and woes’, very liberating to consider healing in this way.

20. Your blog reveals how we’ve made life so complicated by not listening to our body and to connect to the truth it shares. The power of some simple movements reconfiguring what has been there for years and years is incredible and to be appreciated as you do.

21. Beautifully said Gyl, re-connect with our bodies in a gentle and caring way and make self loving choices, so much power and healing is available.

22. Consistency is the key definitely.

23. Thank you Gyl for the reminder of “I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way,”
    I too have experienced this and yet not appreciated or valued it’s power to the depth I am today.

24. The absolute and utter simplicity of what we are here to do and how actually, it is very easy and straight forward to heal, contradicts everything we walk around with inside our head. The tortured path, elusive answer and holy grail, these traditional ideals fly in the face of the sweet and practical steps you show we can take Gyl.

25. The only trouble we find realizing things, what holds us back, is the actual fact that we have to admit that it has not worked what we have done. By ‘done’ , we can refer to how we have lived, what has seeded our current existence forth and how much we have created away from the Soul. This honesty has only not been there for most of us so far as it is a painful truth. But more so a far more painful experience to any longer deny. We have to give up our creation – stop creating further and ignite with the truth of love – that is God, and we do not belong here.

26. To bring a deeper level of awareness to the body and then make the choice to re-connect to the quality of movement that is possible, although appears so simple, it is profoundly life-changing.
    “To feel this, I didn’t have to go into analysing my past choices, or wallow in my woes, I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way, following the Connective Tissue Exercises with a very loving quality, every day.”

27. ‘I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body’ AMAZING! Like thats HUGE! You have inspired me to contact Kate Greenaway-Twist and book some sessions as well, not for this reason but I feel to connect and love my body from a deeper level than I currently am.

28. I have come to love the fact that in every moment we always have a choice, to change or not; it is always up to us. Kate introduced me to her Connective Tissue exercises a few years ago and I made the choice to continue to do them at least once a day. Now this is a choice that I am so delighted I made for as a result of doing so the debilitating sciatic pain that I had lived with for many years is now a thing of the past; a very welcomed healing from one simple, self-loving choice.

29. I love the consistency you are bringing in the way you allow yourself to do your exercises every day and not with the goal to bring your body into shape but to feel your body more, to be more aware of your body, to get to know you/your body better.

30. When we make loving choices that truly support the body, the old patterns and behaviours eventually drop away, without any fuss or any big deal. The key is consistency in self-love and appreciation for all that we are willing to heal and clear from our bodies.

31. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me.” What if our choices and the way we move are infinitely more powerful than we realise? And what if they can change absolutely everything? This makes every move we make super important…

32. What this shows Gyl is that it is only through having a marker of love in the body, are we able to make a true choice to say no to abuse, which in effect is to recognise it as that. Abuse of any sort stands out when the body knows the movement of love. Thanks for your honesty, it’s a great example and one many women could potentially relate to.

    1. I love this Jenny as I am discovering this too: ‘abuse of any sort stands out when the body knows the movement of love’.

       1. Yes Jacque, it is a far cry from the foot stomping, fist pumping women’s liberation – style movements we have gotten caught in over the years, thinking that is empowerment and how to say No to Abuse! The very act of that stance is self-abusive by way of movement in the body… and it is only when we have a true marker for the love we are and come from within the body, that abuse stands out as something the body says no to, not the head along with our indignation.

33. What you have expressed here Gyl is so wise and inspirational with so much to appreciate;
    “I have always heard and known the fact that everything is a choice, but until yesterday I have not felt this so clearly, simply and deeply in my body”.

34. Women are so good at separating their body into parts. Some parts we like, some we don’t and others we are completely oblivious to. Feeling ourselves as a whole body and moving with that in appreciation of who we are in essence is extremely healing and reflecting something very inspiring to other women.

35. Wow, Gyl. It’s incredible that such massive changes in how we feel about our body and particular areas of our body can come about so quickly when we change the way we move/look after ourselves… Your example is relevant to everything; even a disregarded, ‘ugly’ pinky toe can turn into a glorious and appreciated part of us if we change the way we walk, look after our feet etc.

36. Exiling parts of our body because of past choices is not a sustainable choice – what a blessing the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is.

37. This is awesome Gyl, what I could feel is that if we let go of any judgement and abuse that we give to ourselves from past choices we allow love to flow and reconfiguring happens.

    1. Well said Kim – it’s not like we need to try or fix ourselves because nothing is ever truly broken.

38. That’s amazing Gyl! I love the statement that we don’t actually have to dwell on past choices or events, we can simply make a choice to move differently and connect to our bodies to re-imprint old patterns. No drama necessary.

39. There is a great alchemy that happens through simplicity as there is a great retarding that happens through its counter – the complexity we drown ourselves in to not live the love that we are.

40. Firstly, thank you Gyl for writing this
    Secondly, what is shown is that we are vehicles (bodies) that are designed to emanate love. Hence, when we disconnect and ask it to act without it – this is where the problems will rise – the body will not be able to stay and work in harmony, as without love, it is like removing the heart, it loses its nature (its designed movement). Very simple.
    And so,
    When we align to something else than love (evil, lovelessness) this is allowing absolute abuse. Abuse to our body. Abuse to us.
    When we have lived in such way for many many years or whole life(s), it is simply and stands out that we need to undo it by being love choosing love again.

41. This is huge Gyl – you show us the power of choice, change and that we can basically change anything in our lives even if it the biggest struggle or past , hurt or issue, we can heal it. By our own choice. Thank you for sharing – this is Huge. What an awareness of choice this brings. We can by our true Will to let go.

42. What you share here is really quite profound and something that every woman can consider.

43. No indeed Gyl it doesn’t need to be a big deal. How very inspiring to read your story of making a simple choice to heal the energy of abuse through simple connective tissue exercises. A gorgeous blog to read, thank you.

44. I’ve been introduced to similar by Kate and it was equally a revelation for me too – and a beautiful opportunity to change my formerly abusive movements to something far more honouring of this delicate area of my body, and of me as a woman. It makes me wonder at the lengths our cultures worldwide, in their various ways, go about keeping women separate from their most intimate selves – be it via overtly damaging practices such as female genital mutilation, or encouraging identification with what one does rather than who one is.

45. ” It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” This one sentence says it all. Sometimes it’s not the initial abuse that gets us but the choice to beat ourselves up or wallow in guilt over the ‘mistakes’ we have made. If we are willing to feel the impact of our past choices in full we can leave them behind and live the gorgeousness we are.

46. This is amazing and it shows it does not take much to bring love to the body or .. reconnect to the innate love within the body and change the relationship we have with ourselves ‘through the simple choice to connect to my body and move, doing two Connective Pelvic Floor Exercises for a few minutes every day – nothing else – I actually feel absolute love in and for this whole area.’

47. The more loving I choose to be the definition of abuse changes. I can see how I’ve held back claiming what I feel is abusive because others do not see these actions as abusive and that I am ‘too sensitive’ or ‘overly critical’ but taking that stance doesn’t make the tension go away, only accepting what I feel and changing my choices releases that tension.

48. Such a great example of how powerful we truly are in that we can reconfigure patterns of abuse that has owned us for 20 years in any given moment. Through our willingness to be honest the truth will set us free. Our willingness to know the truth is a choice, to be the love we are and no less. And this choice is what allows the truth of who we are to come to life in an instant and reclaim our true way of being – that is for me is awe-inspiring.

49. Wow Gyl, this is so deeply inspiring as I know for me, I did exactly the same. Engaged in sex with men when I was younger to seek love and attention outside of myself, wanting attention but never getting anything or feeling that I was worthy of anything but what i was getting. This i know is stored in my body and I resist going deeper in feeling my body, especially in the pelvic floor area. Loved what you have shared and look forward to exploring this more for myself.

50. Our body is great at showing us that every choice and action has an impact regardless of what we choose to believe, and also wonderful reminder that it is never too late to re-introduce a loving pattern to our life.

51. Just moving our body differently, so much can change, it really can be that simple. I start every morning with some gentle connective tissue exercises that support me for the day ahead.

52. I have been feeling a coldness around my pelvic floor and your blog is really inspiring to not go and avoid being aware of this area but being aware of it and feeling it can change and feel lovely and warm and lovely.

53. It is amazing the level of abuse we are willing to put up with when we are seeking love from outside of us, and expecting others to full fill our needs – this simply does not work.

54. This is so refreshing Gyl. You are right – it really doesn’t have to be a big deal. Change and healing can come through simply choosing to move differently. Beautiful.

55. Life offers lots of opportunities and not all of them are loving and because we have not been encouraged to see how precious we are from the inside first and constantly being played off against society’s expectations much of who we are is overlooked and undervalued. I know growing up there was no sharing about the more intimate parts of my body or becoming a woman and what that meant. Much of my attention was about what I could do and how well liked I was. This was an open ended invitation for abuse. The body is a whole and without even one small working part every part does not flow with the loving intent it was designed for. Opening to this understanding of how I care for and lovingly hold myself as a woman has changed. What has been shared here feels so common and widespread for women, opening this for discussion is important.

56. That everything doesn’t have to be a big deal, is the BEST thing to hear and feel.

57. It is one thing to know something as in it being knowledge and a completely other by having this sense of knowing vibrating in one’s body, as if allowing the particles to be felt. Moving in and with this changes everything.

58. Do we abuse ourselves because we have a lack of self worth, and if so where does this lack of self worth come from? Is it something we are born with or do we develop this lack because we are not held in the amazingness we truly are? Isn’t interesting how we can put a value or a sense of worth on jewelry, houses, cars etc. And value and take pride in their worth above our own sense of worth.

59. After being introduced to the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy I have become more aware of my body and like you Gyl, when I do now connect to my body I feel a warmth and tenderness that I did not ever felt before. This connection with my body that is now very precious to me as it does make me to register any moment I hurt or abuse my body during the day and with that deepening this connection on a daily basis.

60. Such a gorgeous reminder of the healing we can claim when we connect with our bodies with deep tenderness and care. The Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy is a heavenly sent modality to help re-awaken us to the heaven that resides within our very own physical bodies.

61. So awesome to read this again Gyl, I am inspired to bring back a couple of exercises to my daily routine.

62. Gyl, I had a similar experience growing up, ‘growing up thinking I would find love outside of myself from someone else or in a relationship, rather than inside me, and my relationship with myself.’ This never worked and in relationships I would feel lonely and in self doubt, in the last few years I have been building a relationship with myself and now love myself which feels very steady and solid and I know that this love will always be there if I choose to connect with it.

63. Reading this blog helped me to understand that everything is a choice and that every choice ever made not from love can be changed by making another more loving choice and that is to not hold on to that what we even have done ‘wrong’ but to allow ourselves to feel from where we made this choice and leave it by that, not going into any self loathing or whatsoever. As our present life is a result of all our past choices, being aware of the choices we make in every moment of the day is so important. Ast he more aware we are of these, the more we can understand the current situations we are in and appreciate life for what it bring to us, a contant offering to enjoy life in full.

64. I start my day ( still in bed) with some connective tissue exercises which supports my body to slowly awaken.
    These gentle exercises support me to feel my body from the inside, and often afterwards, I take a few moments just being with myself and feeling how light and delicate I am feeling. Great way to start my day with me in my body!

65. Gyl this is a beautiful sharing on the power of Connective Tissue Therapy and through the connection to your body you were able to heal the energy of abuse from previous choices – no need to go into the details or the story just simple nominating this and changing our movements to be more loving allows the body to truly heal.

66. I love the absolute transformational power of just 2 Connective Tissue techniques in reconnecting you to this area and allowing you to love and appreciate the preciousness within. Definitely nothing short of deeply inspirational.

67. Movements can be our thoughts and expressions, too. When we make a commitment to change one of these, it supports other areas to change, too. It’s easy to get caught in old patterns, but when we recognise them as residue, and not who we truly are, not the core of our being, they start to lose their grip.

68. so great to read this Gyl, because it goes beyond the kind of abuse you speak of to encompass every form of recklessness, neglect, and disregard we visit upon our own bodies. This affects everything we can then live and express, as it comes from a body that has borne the brunt and damage of the harshness of our living. what if we were to truly embrace, appreciate and confirm our bodies through every movement and expression, and bring back to it the experience of love that is so natural to us as a young child. This cannot but affect our thoughts and quality of living, and how we interact with, see and understand the world every day.

69. Great that you didn’t make it a big deal, just saw it as a choice you made, resulting in the huge change this brought for you after 20 years. This really shows the power of our choices. Thank you Gyl.

70. I can vouch for these exercises too as I have been practicing them for sometime now, they seem so simple and they are, but they have a profound affect on your body. I would highly recommend a session with Kate to support you to re-connect with areas of your body which you have previously not been aware of.

71. I still often get caught up in my head, in complication of trying to work out how to sort an issue out or how I feel – when really it’s all very simple – i just come back to my body.

72. What a shift Gyl. From not wanting to feel this area of your body to loving it and using Connective Tissue Therapy to support you in this.

73. ‘I didn’t have to go into analysing my past choices’ – this is a huge one! How many of us think or have thought we have to spend years in our head analysing all the unloving choices we made, to go over them with a fine tooth comb – when really this is just keeping us from our sacredness. Many people make huge money out of this, think of therapist who love indulging in a persons issues – or a person themselves – this can go on for years. With nothing being healed, simply just going round and round in circles adding layers instead of clearing them.

74. Awesome to read how you went from numbness and feeling disgust for yourself to being more aware of your precious body. Rejecting parts of body can only lead to stress and illness.

75. It is incredible when we do something simple and daily that is supportive for us as you have done, without realising it, the healing affect it has is in fact huge.

76. Wow you really have to love the power of our movements in each and every subtle moment and how one little choice to change any movement can reconfigure our bodies in oh so amazing ways. Thank you Gyl.

77. Hi Gyl ,
    Thanks for your sharing and honestly about the importance of connecting to all areas of our bodies and then ,shining the light and love to to parts through conscious connective tissue exercise. These simple exercises of feeling ,connecting and activating muscle /tissues are very healing and help us to integrate the whole body as part of the whole naturally .Having a great loving relationship with our bodies and all there parts is so important .

78. We only make things a big deal when we get stuck in our head. . . reconnect to the body and it is a whole different story, in fact there is not longer a story. It is the story that holds our stuck in time and old patterns.

79. It’s awesome when we can feel a choice being so tangible in the body -rather than hearing it as a mental knowledge. It’s then that I get I really do have a choice!

80. Gyl, your blog got me feeling how when we haven’t lived lovingly with ourselves we avoid feeling any love for our bodies, so to avoid having to feel how far from love we have been from it. It’s like an illusionary wall that we must break through in order to bring the love and healing our bodies needs.

81. Great timing to read this again, I just finished up an session of stretches and connective tissue exercises and came to the same conclusion about issues, that “It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” Just choosing to be with the body in a more loving way, with the specific connective tissue based exercises, brings forth both the clearing of the old non supportive ways, and the new level of healing and love that is there for us in how we relate to ourselves, and in how we can live.

82. So cool, reconnection is only a choice away if we allow ourselves to let go, be honest and truly appreciate who we are.

    1. Summed up beautifully Benkt! Everything comes back to what we choose, we can choose love or we can choose everything that is not love. And how we treat our bodies reflects what we are choosing, for example we have a daily routine of self-care and self-nurture in place which constantly refines or the opposite, we neglect and abuse our bodies. And we are all equal in ‘free-will’ of what we are choosing.

83. Re configuring the energetic patterns in our body by the type of exercises you describe in this blog is so much simpler, cheaper and more effective then years of counselling.

84. The more we care for ourselves the less abuse we are likely to accept, but also less likely to be abusive to another too.

85. It is kinda painful to read about you having sex with people out of a need for love. But I can relate to it, and that is what makes this all the more devastating to read. I love that we can heal ourselves from all these hurts, that we have the power to do so, that we have the will and the conscious choice to do so. And that there are people here in this life who can help and support us to do so.

86. The biggest highlight in this blog for me is the commitment to our own wellbeing.

    Connective Tissue is an amazing therapy however without the commitment to follow through little changes.

87. One day we will see Connective Tissue Therapy as a recognised medical therapy, and all the revelations that come with it.

88. I agree with you whole heartedly Gyl, being aware of and resolving our past hurts does not have to be a big deal. Simply making a choice to self-love and nurture is the key, as you have so wisely pointed out.

89. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me” This is absolutely huge what you write here Gyl, what ever our patterns, how ever long they have been there we can choose to let them go.

90. Who would have said that by having sex to please others would still be remembered within the body and acting out in this way is being abusive to ourselves and actually dis-honouring of the other person – this is huge.

91. Thank you Gyl, Kate is a most amazing woman!

92. “To feel this, I didn’t have to go into analysing my past choices, or wallow in my woes, I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way, following the Connective Tissue Exercises with a very loving quality, every day.” Gyl this is so huge, one day this will all be studied and confirmed and the energetic impacts of Universal Medicine’s modalities such as Connective Tissue will be seen for the true healing it offers.

93. The line that stands out for me is ‘ I didn’t have to go into analysing my past choices’ thus is huge a deeply profound. How many of us and therapist world wide sorbs hours, days, weeks and if we are honest years, indulging and playing over our past choices, which in truth just embeds them even more into our body. When the simple fact is we can let them go so easily, and move on. If the world knew this, the whole therapist practice would come crumbling to its knees, as people would be more empowered and take responsibility. But there in maybe lies the key – is it that we avoid responsibility?

94. I agree Gyl it is miraculous that you re-connected to this whole area of your body through doing pelvic floor exercises and making the choice to remain in the connection through out the day.

95. Love the way you honour your body at the end there as a great teacher. We all have this resource, and like all good teachers we just have to remember to listen to what they are communicating (and not wait till they start shouting with a disease).

96. This is so true, I for one go into my head to try and work things out or indulge in things when really this helps no one and just makes an issue that is not there in the first place . It’s like having your own tv drama playing out . But the simple fact is as soon as we bring it back to our bodies, how I / we move, the very simple acts of taking care of myself / ourselves – how I walk, drive my car, sit, move from class to class this changes everything.

97. Every moment we choose to observe and remain in the spaciousness of our own body, we can see, feel and therefore choose to say no to the multitudes of abusive ways that surround us.

98. It’s really simple to come back to our bodies, it’s all about movement, in the sense of stopping feeling where the tension is in our body and moving it.

99. Due to something happening I have been feeling very unsettled for a couple of days, the events had triggered a very old memory from a past life. All it took to come back to my body and myself was 2 mins of Esoteric Connective Tissue Exercises and it was cleared. Then the solid and steadiness I was able to take to this situation was immense.

100. I can still learn a lot form this blog, in the sense of not being self indulgent.

101. It is so inspiring to hear how we can let go of the negative way we speak and feel about our bodies simply by making space to connect more deeply. The connective tissue exercises sound like such a gentle way to start and end the day – a great healing in itself.

102. The relationship I have with my body has completely changed since integrating the Esoteric healing modalities into my life. Now I can feel when a part of my body hardens, seizes up or start to feel ‘dead’. Now, I don’t override this feeling and carry on as I used to. I bring my awareness, tenderness and love to that area and everything I have learnt through the Esoteric Healing modalities including the beautiful Connective Tissue Therapy.

103. It’s such a travesty that we grow up looking outside ourselves for love, but that is the way it seems for most of us as we are pushed down that road and often do things that harm us in the search for love. Connective Tissue Exercise and Therapy just got even more interesting than before, what a revelation to be able to heal old choices this way.

104. Amazing honesty Gyl – thank you!

105. “I have always heard and known the fact that everything is a choice, but until yesterday I have not felt this so clearly, simply and deeply in my body.” Our bodies will always make the best and wisest choices when we use the mind we can get lost in our own illusion.

106. I remember when I studied anatomy and physiology and learnt about different kinds of cells and tissues and I was fascinated that one of them – connective tissues were actually everywhere in our body connecting and binding all kinds of things – and they can all be broadly identified by this certain configuration of molecules. Our body is just amazing. I am very interested to learn more about Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy.

107. It’s funny how you mentioned brushing aside the changes in our life and the grandness of things, in fact appreciating this is how we evolve for life is always giving us opportunities for growth and when we recognise them it really is magical.

108. Yes Gyl, we can indeed move forward effortlessly into new loving choices without having to look back in a self punishing manner, or make it harder than it needs to be. A big part of this for me has been in allowing and receiving support, and truly appreciating the changes I am making. Spending time celebrating the love is much more fun than looking back in anger, regret or sadness!

109. Esoteric Connective Tissue exercises are very simple and powerful in my experience, I love how they have helped change your relationship with your body, ‘It feels a joy to connect to and feel this part of my body, and to be honest when I look down I now smile; there’s a warmth, a tenderness and a love there that I have never felt before’.

110. ‘To feel this, I didn’t have to go into analysing my past choices, or wallow in my woes, I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way…’ I too have been finding this – it’s like I’ve lived in this goldmine of love and wisdom and not realised it. I do still return to my head a lot but more and more I’m building a relationship with my body and realising how shallow I have been living compared to the richness I hold within.

111. I can relate to being numb in certain areas of my body. Of taking on things that didn’t fit with my true nature and carrying them like they were me- I am working on bringing more love and focus to these areas and learning to allow them to be, without judgement and letting go of what no longer supports me.

112. Sometimes we are overwhelmed by things as they feel so much bigger than us. But look how gracefully and quickly you changed a 20 year old pattern. If only we were taught as kids how to connect, or stay connected to our bodies and how to move in honour of every part of them we would save an enormous amount of angst throughout humanity and God knows how much better off we’d all be.

113. “What I shared with Kate was huge; through the simple choice to connect to my body and move, doing two Connective Pelvic Floor Exercises for a few minutes every day – nothing else – I actually feel absolute love in and for this whole area.” Wow, Gyl, that certainly is a great example of the power of the Connective Tissue exercises. How beautiful for you that you came to actually love that part of your body, and why would we not, we women hold so much sacredness in that area. Wonderful that all the abuse that the area had experienced dissipated with just a couple of Connective Pelvic Floor exercises practised for a few minutes each day.

114. A beautiful testimony of how through the quality of our movements, what we choose to surrender is what we magnify through our bodies. This highlights the importance of being aware of what it is we are choosing to surrender to. Thank you Gyl.

115. Gyl this is hugely confirming, I too have been practicing some super simple daily pelvic floor exercises. I have been amazed at how clearly I have been able to connect with my cervix, these small movements have not only strengthened my pelvic floor muscles but also been profoundly building my relationship with myself as a woman.

116. Today I have been reconfiguring the energy of disregard, which is abuse by attending to things that I have neglected for a while such as clearing out cupboards, getting rid of things that are no longer wanted etc. I can feel the difference already in my body just from making that a simple choice. The body knows love and welcomes it every time we allow ourselves to be loving towards ourselves.

117. The simplicity of what you are sharing here Gyl is profound. It really is a case of just allowing ourselves the grace to know that all we have to do is to change how we choose to think about something, and then put it into action, and the effects on our bodies can be enormous. This begs the question, if it really is that simple, then what is running us to make us think otherwise?

118. Connective tissue therapy and exercise is the way of the future as the results are simply astounding, and a true way of releasing the shackles of past choices and patterns.

119. It is amazing how just through a simple choice to connect to our bodies we can reverse old patterns very quickly.

120. This is great as it tangibly shows how we can truly address and reconfigure disregard and levels of abuse we have lived simply by conciously being aware of this and working to reconnect and heal the body at a true an deeper level. Kate Greenaway and Esoteric Connective Tissue are the perfect practitioner and modality to support this. A second blog I have read about how a few minutes exercise consistently everyday lovingly supports us in more ways than one. I feel this is telling me something ✨

121. Bringing an awareness and focus to any part of our body and then re-introducing and new way of moving and connecting with it is going to bring some miracles that we never thought were possible. Being open to the fact that there is possibly more to what we have settled for is the key to self-initiation.

122. Love rereading this Gyl, it is fascinating how we can totally block areas of our body out because of not wanting to feel past choices. When we truly listen, connect and bring awareness to the any part of the body we can let go and allow for deep healing.

123. ” The body is a marker of Truth’ SB . Our truth is held in our body and until we connect with the disregard we have allowed. When we reconnect through our connective tissue with self love and honouring the body can clear the abuse. Such a simple modality that heals profoundly.

124. I love the simplicity of this Gyl. The simplicity of re-connecting with our body allows all that doesn’t truely belong there to drop away.

125. ‘it doesn’t have to be big deal’ – it is so refreshing to see our ability to choose in every moment without the weight and struggle I have applied for so long… and that every moment is a fresh opportunity.

126. What a simple yet powerful answer to an ill way of living, feel and move in a different quality. I too have felt the supportive platform that Esoteric Connective Tissue movements can offer.

127. Thanks Gyl for the reminder of how important our movement is and esoteric connective tissue exercises are in awakening the divinity within and re-imprinting the body from old patterns of disconnection ,trauma or abuse . Simple and seamless and there for all to do .

128. I can absolutely recommend a program of Esoteric Connective Tissue Exercise. If I remember correctly I have participated in over 5 courses and the learning never stops and when the next course presents itself I will do it again.

129. I really appreciate feeling the connection of how simple the choice became to let go of the old. A choice of a long pattern let go of with willingness and a truly loving appreciation and awareness of caring for yourself, with the support of a great choice in practitioner. We can initiate miracles in our lives when it comes to healing old behaviours and hurts, if we are willing to to open ourselves up to our own truth with loving understanding for who we truly are in our essence.

130. The greatest pleasure I received on re-reading this blog is that I get to feel all the places you have discussed as I reconnect to different parts of my body with Esoteric Connective Tissue Exercises

131. Our relationship with our bodies reveals the truth about our choices. Even the simple act of lying down with my eyes closed and feeling each part of my body reveals so much. I have also found connective tissue exercises incredibly powerful as they have allowed me to develop a relationship with my body that cannot be misinterpreted or denied.

132. Dear Gyl,
     On re reading your article this evening this sentence stands out to me and is also a guiding light for me just now.
     “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.”
     As I am finding myself at a point where a choice in movement has been the major instigator in stopping myself from enjoying the magnificent life I now have, I know that changing this movement is what is needed, but as you share, it is no big deal. All it takes is the committment to move the way I know will release this each day, thank you.

133. Allowing ourselves to be gentle with ourselves and in our movements is such a blessing when we have been hard on ourselves for so long. Our relationship with our own bodies mirrors our relationship with life.

134. I am sure there are still parts of my body that I am as yet unaware that I avoid feeling. What I do know though is that I am willing to develop to the point that I can ‘hear’ everything.

135. “I can absolutely say I love this area of my body, it feels precious and I want to take care of it deeply” I can relate to wanting to take care of this precious body after being woken up from a slumber seeing my husband very sick recently, and it really has been a blessing for both of us. Our bodies really are so amazing and I want to support my body now rather than abuse it.

     1. I can absolutely recommend a program of Esoteric Connective Tissue Exercise. If I remember correctly I have participated in over 5 courses and the learning never stops and when the next course presents itself I will do it again.

136. I have noted how quickly my body can become hard and how deeply it is registered in my body when I make an unloving choice. An anger is sometimes felt and if I don’t acknowledge it it can stay there, which can then impact the next choice I make. There is a deep knowing as to what love is and if this is compromised quite often we can go into reaction. It takes an honesty and conscious choice to let go of this and to still be loving and nurturing. I can totally relate to what you are sharing Gyl about the disconnect from your body because it is hard to feel the level of anger and sadness that we carry as a result of the self abuse. However if we can simply connect to the awesomeness that is underneath all that tension, the tension is no longer the focus and the self appreciation grows as we get to feel the depth of the love that is already there, which hasn’t been touched.

137. I so grew up looking for love outside of myself as well, and since only starting to realise that it is actually within me (or actually me because we are love!), I have realised how fragile and tenuous it is to seek for love outside of you. It can leave you like a dog without a home, standing on the footpath, waiting for someone to love you and pick you up and take you home, and devastated when that does not happen. But when you start to live the love you are, the world changes. You are less reliant on others for what we can so deeply crave.

138. Hi Gyl,. . . the more we care for our self the more we find our selves in more caring situations Everything comes back to how we are with ourselves and how connected we are to our body. Connective Tissue exercises bring us in communication with our body. This is massive as our body will always ask us to be more responsible and when we are we can no longer blame others or judge and shame our self.

139. This is a profound sharing Gyl! To think we hold these energies of abuse within us for so long ,and yet through gentle and loving exercise and connection to our body or body parts, we can clear the abuse and bring in love that heals.

140. All of which means that we are ourselves the ultimate scientists and doctors.

141. The more present I become with myself the more deeply in-ground is the understanding of the importance of feeling energy in our bodies and reading what the choices stemming from mind and emotions allowed in of a harming energy. This reading comes from the consistency of presence, all in an instant, without any analysis or recall. It is a truly remarkable wisdom that calls the energy to the fore, calls it ‘out’ so to speak and lets love enter that part of the body to fill the void. It is what ‘connection’ that allows true healing is about and it keeps coming back to the simplicity of, ” am I here or am I not?” with my bodily movements.

142. I also have found the Connective Tissue Modality to be an amazing support in reconnecting with my body and releasing held configuration associated with past trauma in my life leaving me feeling lighter and free of the burdens I was holding in my body. As a result I can be and naturally connect with and express more of the love that I truly am to the world.

143. We spend most of our life choosing to live in parts – this blog confirms what is available when we claim the parts we overlook and the affect on our whole being. We are meant to be one unified in self and one unified as Humanity. Thank Gyl.

144. Just spotting the title of this article this morning stopped me in my tracks. Our choices today have the power to reconfigure past patterns and behaviours that we might think are there for good – this is huge – thank you, Gyl.

145. Learning what is behind or underneath what is going on in the body, is so deeply healing. What you have shared here Gyl, is another example of what is so simple, that when we connect and listen to the body, miracles can happen.

146. Doing ‘Pelvic Floor’ exercises has helped my prostate gland!

147. Thank you for this great reminder Gyl .. paying attention to all of our body, leaving nothing out, in fact going to and embracing those areas we may be avoiding.

148. After reading this article I feel to embark on a connective tissue program, thank you Gyl

149. Playing with the energy of abuse brings abuse to our body and the body acts silently upon it going into numbing mood. How many more processes that would make a lot of sense like this one happens and we are not aware of? It would really help to pa attention to this because it ill help to unlock, the body from what we do to it.

150. I truly appreciate your sharing Gyl, simply reading this offers me the choice to connect more deeply to my body. There is so much innate loveliness in all of us and when honouring this knowing by simply connecting and appreciating then there is more to love and appreciate. Past choices simply don’t come into a loving connection with the essence of who we are. This is also true and real when we connect to the essence of another.

151. Making the choice to re-connect to a part of our body that may have appeared to have laid dormant for years is quite extraordinarily beautiful Gyl. Of course, no part of our body lays dormant, we just choose to ignore it, taking it for granted until something comes along to shake us up. I have been doing the connective tissue exercises for the pelvic floor too, and I agree the warmth, tenderness and spaciousness that now emanates from this area feels sublime and I am wondering just how deep we can connect to our body when we make the conscious choice to feel that is going on right underneath our eyebrows and how amazing our bodies truly, are and how much wisdom it contains within.

152. We think that we are doing the right thing by pumping weights or doing heavy physical training but this is just another form of abuse which hardens the muscles and forces the body into movements that are not harmonious.

153. Re-reading this blog is a beautiful reminder of how absolutely amazing the body is – returning to move in a way that is honouring and natural to the body with the Connective Tissue exercises, it can re-configure itself and let go of past trauma held in it. Our posture changes and we can stand taller and straighter without effort.

     A confirmation of the fact that everything stems from the quality of our movement.

     “I didn’t have to go into analysing my past choices, or wallow in my woes, I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way, following the Connective Tissue Exercises with a very loving quality, every day.”

154. “To feel this, I didn’t have to go into analysing my past choices, or wallow in my woes, I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way, following the Connective Tissue Exercises with a very loving quality, every day.” Wow, Gyl, this proves just how powerful the Connective Tissue Exercises are, and how powerful it is for us to change the way that we move. Movement is key to making huge changes in our lives, moving in a loving, connected way for a very short time can completely change our whole outlook on life. When I am feeling a little down, or disconnected, I am finding that moving that way for just a few moments completely transforms how I am feeling.

     1. Thank you Beverley. I appreciate being reminded that movement can help us to change our thoughts and the way we feel. Sometimes it is very difficult to stay connected to this fact but the more I develop a relationship with my body the more inclined I am to change my movements when I am off track.

155. What you have shared Gyl, is such proof of the power of the connective tissue therapy and exercises. It is amazing how much can change when we are willing to use these exercises every day. Thank you so much for the great reminder of this, I had forgotten just how great they are and feel to also choose to do some of them regularly, daily, it is time to be far more in touch with all parts of my body. I realised just today during a stretching exercise class that there are some areas that I have not been in touch with for a very long time, it feels as if they contracted when I was quite young.

156. Thank you Gyl for sharing.

157. This blog confirms the power of true movement. If we move in a certain quality then we can move mountains. No need to spend a fortune on self help therapies, simply move consistently in the quality that is in line with your natural rhythm.

158. I have just started a connective tissue exercise program with Kate also and the changes I have felt in my body and my general emotional state have been profound. Just simply being more aware of how I hold my self, my posture has changed the way I feel during the day and allowed me to be much more open to others, less guarded and protective and therefore less hard in my physical body.

159. “I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way, following the Connective Tissue Exercises with a very loving quality, every day.” Moving from this point of connection is hugely powerful, we can then have awareness throughout our day as opposed to compartmentalising this for a designated time. Connected our body is offering us constant support.

160. I love and deeply appreciate the absoluteness in your sharing Gyl. You’re spot on regarding the no big deal as there isn’t even the tiniest hint of this, it’s simply the claiming of the realization and being open to what is true.

161. amazing what we have stored in our bodies that we don’t realise, yet affects everything we do in every moment, outside of our awareness. and amazing how powerful connective tissue exercises and our own reconnection to our bodies allows such ill configurations to release, and so we can be lighter and free to be more of who we truly are.

162. I appreciate Gyl what you have brought to the connective tissue exercise that has allowed you to feel and understand its significance. It is not only the movement, it is what we bring to it, as shown in your understanding and honesty about your part in the choices you made in past relationships.

163. By making the choice to commit to something we change the energy we do it in so it is far more beneficial to the body than if we were to do the same thing reluctantly or with resistance.

164. Simple movements done with awareness can awaken muscles that we have long forgotten. This gentle awareness supports the body to let go of abuse imposed on it by ourselves or others.

165. So true Gyl. What we have allowed to occur, what we have let in to our lives and our body, what we ourselves have perpetrated has led to any self loathing an worthlessness that we may carry. The beautiful thing is that these are all our choices, and we can stop, and take that turn around – a new choice in every moment – and the tenderness, delicateness, Love and joy that pours in heals all that feels so insurmountable.
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166. I love that it can be this simple to chose to run with a story of abuse and not being worthy, or you can chose to move and connect so that you are free of the abuse!

167. The power in bringing a gentle quality to our movements is bigger than I have yet to fully appreicate. But from experience it keeps working, when I feel flat or unsettled in my body if I move in a more loving way I feel more energised and willing to care for myself again. Even something as simple as stroking the back of my hand tenderly can snap me out of a funk. Whereas if I feel flat and just carry on and don’t care about how I move it compounds the feeling.

168. What you describe Gyl is revolutionary, the path of true healing is re-connecting to our bodies and hearts and feeling the devastation of our hurts and disconnection. No need to endlessly re visit and retell our ill choices but certainly feel what has been avoided.

169. Such an open article, a real honour to share in it. I can relate to feeling disconnected with certain areas of my body. I have noticed that my arms have at times have a life of their own, they way the move and hold things has been hard, where as I could be more gentle and caring with myself, through moving my arms in this way. Connective tissue exercises and treatment is deep supportive to reconnect and re-imprint how we move and feel.

170. Beautiful blog Gyl. Although our whole body is important and it all must work in harmony together to support our true health and wellbeing there is a particular preciousness associated with our pelvic area …which ironically one of the parts of our bodies that we women most ignore until something is wrong there.

171. I love how you have highlighted the level of responsibility needed to heal the energy of abuse; in fact any hurt that we feel. I so much appreciate you sharing your experiences, your knowledge and your wisdom, thank you. As you say it is not a big deal however it is deeply responsible.

172. With such dedication to the body, and reading how differently these Connective Tissue exercises have made such profound changes in the relationship you now have with you and your body, it seems to me that the energy of abuse has transmuted.. literally gone, removed, disappeared from your body, enabling more loving choices and behaviours to be there. A very inspiring read, showing us how energy precedes behaviour.

173. I find it interesting that we can be so disconnected from our bodies. When I first came to the work of Universal Medicine, I could not imagine it possible to feel my kidneys, my uterus, my ovaries, etc. Just by being willing to connect, and as you share Gyl, make different choices, I now have a relationship with my body, which communicates so much back to me.

174. Reading this blog instantly invites me to consider my body and how I am sitting while I read. Naturally I can feel where there is tension or awkwardness in my posture. The very small adjustments it requires to release these pockets are so simple vet very supportive. Connective Tissue Therapy is a truly supportive modality that becomes part of our daily life by increasing awareness to our movements.

175. We are all very familiar with the energy of abuse. We all have our strategies to cope with it. They are all based on disconnecting from our body (or from parts thereof). The beauty of seeing it in this way, and understanding how it affected you, is the fact that what got disconnected can be reconnected back.

176. this is an awesome illustration that we are not condemned to live a life stuck in an identity of who we believe are, how to be with oneself and with others, It is such a wearing thing constantly monitoring and gauging other people to measure or gauge our response – this is hugely imprisoning way to live. Through Serge Benhayon and the presentations of Universal Medicine I have learned the power of simply expressing what is felt in that moment… and learning to express without any need for another to ‘get it’, no investment in another understanding, and no concern of the reaction of what might come back, it is deeply freeing, and revealing of a deeper wisdom we all carry within if we but choose to connect to it.

177. The pelvic floor is often an area where we harbour some form of old hurt and so we cut off from it as you did Gyl. Once we can honestly admit that “I couldn’t, or in truth, didn’t want to feel” this area and are willing to go there we are then able to release the hurt and then we can feel the warmth, tenderness and love that is naturally in every part of the body.

178. We usually take our bodies for granted until a part starts to speak to us with pain which forces us to be aware of it. However, if we choose to connect with our bodies we awaken the parts that we have ignored. With an open focus, not a fixed concentration, we awaken not just the part we might be tuning into and we restore its relationship to the whole body. Many pelvic floor exercises isolate the part further because we focus on it by tensing and clenching and by bringing in a sense of having to do something. By bringing awareness to the connective tissue we connect with the whole body while tuning into the part.

179. What you share here in this blog is great – that every thought and movement has an immediate effect on how we feel and how empowering this can be. That if we bring a loving focus and dedication to our body, appreciate how intricate and gorgeous it is then we start to feel something quite special.

180. Thanks for sharing so candidly here Gyl. There is much I can relate to here as a man and am very much inspired to work with.

181. We often talk about the marvel of the human body but, in truth, my understanding of what it actually offers us hasn’t even scratched the surface. Blogs like this and my evolving appreciation and acceptance of what my body is telling and offering me, are totally re-writing how I have used and abused my body for thirty five years. My ignorance is humbling and I am deeply grateful to my body for putting up wth the assaults that I have imposed upon it. Sorry body…but fear not, the next thirty five years will be a very different story!

182. Just taking a moment to do a quick body scan reveals to me the areas of my body I dismiss, ignore or gloss over. There is always a revelation in this – tension in my knees, shoulders around my ears, ‘absence’ of my pelvic floor – and then an opportunity to attend to this. I do some simple exercises along with bringing attention to the quality of my breath and it is remarkable how quickly my body responds. As you say, Gyl, it is simple and in my experience only hard when I make it so by resisting.

183. Every time I say no to some form of abuse that I may have been allowing, I notice that less abuse comes towards me. If it does, it is so loud and ugly that it is very easy to see that this person is deeply hurting and that they have their choice to express like this but that I don’t have to take on one bit of it.

184. So true Gyl, change doesn’t have to be a big deal. It can be as simple as changing our posture which instantly changes our attitude which in turn changes our day.

185. Saying no to abuse is a monumentally huge decision to make, and especially when you say it from your body. We can after all, say all sorts of things in our minds, making huge claims and sweeping promises to ourselves, but the body never lies and will tell the truth at all times. So to address this particular quality, the energy of abuse in our bodies is really taking that step to go deeper, to delve even, in to the very core of your light and see the beauty, the grace and tremendous person that you are, and how you have remained intact with out any pain or violence ever having touched the very deep and meaningful core of you at all.

186. There is a simplicity and undeniable gentleness with the Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy and Exercises. The simple techniques have brought the most profound results in so many areas of my life.

187. I’m always amazed by the power and the massive effect connective tissue exercises have on my body – who knew such small movements could change the WHOLE world?

188. This rewrites medicine also, for we don’t need to spend hours indulging in our past hurts to let them go, we can, as Gyl shows, nominate an old pattern and then move in a way that reconfigures and unlocks this from our bodies.

189. Indeed Gyl, my understanding of exercise and movement is shifting dramatically. Recently I have begun to practice some very small movements, observing the impact a small movement such as lifting my heel has on other parts of my body, areas I never even imagined would be engaged. This has humbled my understanding of the power of movement and blown much of what I currently understand as physical exercise out of the water, for in many ways I feel more toned and supported by these minutiae movements than I do from any dynamic stretch.

     1. This is a huge shift in consciousness, Lucinda: from the stressful demands of a ‘no pain no gain’ model, to the intricate awareness of the significance of our every movement and how that can develop our physical strength. Supported by this awareness I know I am fitter and weller than I have ever been… and nearly 50!

190. The responsibility to discern energy is ours and what I have learnt is it started with learning to love myself enough to be present with myself and feel my body and though allowing my hurts to be felt and released I naturally deepen my nurturing and level of responsibility for the loving way I treat myself and with that naturally the way others treat me.

191. There is true joy in turning our attention inward and putting a stop to the reliance on outward responses and reactions to our every expression. It is simply not possible for another to be an expert on ‘us’ for they do not live in our body, or live our life.

192. Super blog Gyl and wonderful to share how these connective tissues with Kate Greenaway-Twist have supported you to let go of old behaviours/beliefs and movements without the need to sit and talk for hours and hours, but to simply move the body differently. I too have had sessions with Kate and every morning start my day with some gentle connective tissue exercises which is a great start to my day and to which my body greatly appreciates…..

193. ‘ growing up thinking I would find love outside of myself from someone else or in a relationship, rather than inside me, and my relationship with myself’, and how many of us grew up with this old belief and looked for love outside of ourselves, is a trap we all fall into until we reconnect with our bodies and start listening to what they communicate with us.

     1. Yes, the trap of desperately seeking the missing ingredient outside of ourselves, in life or in another person is huge, and keeps us distracted, sometimes for years, from the fact that our completeness is within us and from this place we can then engage with the world and true relationships.

194. We can only be whole when we accept the whole of us. In this acceptance we are then able to face the fact of whatever we are presented with rather than trying to control the situation or jockeying our position to avoid being hurt.

195. The body has an honesty which shows us where we are and how we are treating it. However, we often do not want to see this so we ignore the messages it gives us and we can go on for our whole life ignoring parts of ourself. This is another form of hiding.

196. It is amazing to make such changes Gyl and reconfigure our bodies, and what I find is shown, is that there is layers to peel away, that letting go of one pattern allows us to look at and feel the one underneath. Caring for myself in my movements is such a basic, very simple way to love my own body.

197. I love how you say that changing choices doesn’t have to be a big deal but that even the smallest and simplest changes can affect enormous shifts.

198. Gyl I also had similar experience to you the other day in which I came to feel the truth of the concept that everything is a choice and that everything includes all the negatively impacting choices as well.

199. It is so true, it is all but a choice away. When we make the choice in full we can change patterns in a single second.

200. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” How powerful is this? It really is simply a choice.

201. True movement is such a powerful healing modality taught by Universal Medicine. When we move differently to how we have been previously moving, simultaneously changing the way we hold our body, we can change our thinking and change patterns and behaviors. Much more productive and effective than counselling.

202. To hear and know something and fully understand it is one thing, but to really feel it for ourselves takes it to another whole level. Once we have felt something in our bodies, we cannot doubt what we know is true for ourselves, regardless of what anyone else may tell us.

203. What you share here is the power of our choices and how when we honour what we are feeling is super important. Making that choice and then confirming it with a movement or action is redefining of what is true for the body and our expression of Love. There is always the opposite to this and it pays to be aware of this, because when we are in a pattern of choosing unloving and harming choices to remember it is only a choice supports us to be self empowered to make the Loving choice out of the two.

204. “This whole area I actually looked at – and have looked at – with disgust for around 20 years.” When I consider how tender and responsive our bodies are to everything we think, it is quite shocking to realise that when we feel this level of disgust towards our selves or a part of our bodies, what the real impact might be. How can our bodies remain healthy if we regard them with such loathing? There is an exquisite tenderness in Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy that gently brings us home to just how delicate and beautiful our bodies are. It has supported me to make friends with my body again and to stop regarding any part of myself with such loathing. Learning to love our selves again is such good medicine.

205. Gyl, ‘I can absolutely say I love this area of my body, it feels precious and I want to take care of it deeply.’ This is gorgeous to read, it makes me realise that I do not feel this about my body, I have noticed that I do not have the disgust and shame that I once had for my body, but I do not adore my body, something to work on and as you say it is possible to change how we feel about our body.

206. Connective Tissue Exercises for me are the missing link! There is nothing else that I find as supportive to allow my body to let go and relax…offering me a deeper surrender of calmness and stillness in my body.

207. Truly inspirational Gyl. With many thanks for the work of Kate Greenaway-Twist and the presentations by Serge Benhayon about Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy!

208. Somewhere along the journey in my life I learned to stop being kind to my body. Now I am on the path of relearning what this truly looks like and feels like.

209. “I have always heard and known the fact that everything is a choice, but until yesterday I have not felt this so clearly, simply and deeply in my body.” This is so true, but one that can be plagued with complexity, if we allow it to of course. The unloving patterns and behaviours that we so want to hold on to, not purposefully, but they can be a challenge to let them go. As you say, those new choices, have to be felt in the body, come from the body, not our heads, otherwise, there isn’t the opportunity for true healing and change.

210. The commitment to working with the body on a regular schedule, offers such an opportunity to deepen the relationship with yourself, with love and the relationship of you in the world.

211. Wow that’s so powerful to release old unloving patterns of abuse and reconfiguring your body through the choice to be more of the love that you naturally are.
     interesting really isn’t it just how disconnected we can be to one part of our body although for me I was very disconnected from my femaleness and females parts of my body but at the same time knowing that I didn’t realise just how disconnected I was to my body as a whole.

212. I am learning more and more to feel the quality of my movements and to observe how it affects my whole body when I move tenderly. My movements includes my thoughts and they are becoming more appreciative and less critical. My voice, in the past hard and uncompromising, can be, when I focus on it, deeply tender. This is all a work-in-progress but makes such a difference and is so simple to do.

     1. I can relate to this. To speak to myself like a new born tender baby. I would never allow anyone to speak to me the way I allow thoughts to come in at times, so it’s knowing these are not me, but also to take responsibility for the energy I am choosing which allow these thought and not indulging in them. To come back to the movements of my body – and my thoughts either go completely, as in I’m not in my head thinking or they completely change to loving. I come back to feeling me, super cute, joyful, content and playful – just like a little girl and I love being with me -there’s no need or looking outside myself for anything.

213. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” How inspiring is this Gyl. There is such a strong belief that once we get ‘stuck in our ways’ there is nothing that we can do to change them, and these habits and behaviours will just get more and more engrained in our bodies. But what you are presenting here is that this doesn’t have to be the case, and that it comes down to a simple choice to change what no longer supports our bodies. And this is only one step away.

214. Disconnection from our bodies causes all sorts of problems, physical and mental. There are actually areas like you say Gyl that we can walk around with whilst being completely disconnected to. How sad it is we all have these amazing bodies all different shapes and sizes and yet if we don’t like a part or we have let abuse in we shut off from it. Thank you Gyl for sharing.

215. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” This feels like a supportive and loving way to approach the changes you are making. An inspiring sharing – thank you Gyl.

216. Learning the power of my body and its movements… . It is profoundly powerful in simply changing how I am moving and the quality of that movement, changes the quality of thoughts, arresting the negativity and self-destructing or sabotaging thoughts and behaviours. when we choose conscious presence we give ourselves a huge gift, the potential for mastery over how we will be with each moment, no matter what life brings.

217. Connective Tissue exercises are extremely simple, yet profound in the support that they offer the body and the whole of our being. They are an opportunity to stop, reconnect, feel and move the body in a very simple, tender and loving way where held patterns of energy can release from the body.

218. Connecting with my pelvic floor is like being child like again in the wonderment of discovering something about myself like a baby discovers their fingers and toes. It is such an innocent feeling to know their is a very special place deep with in that holds such great wisdom and power. Unseen but not unknown if I simply stop and bring my awareness to the area in a sense of appreciation and innocence for all that it is.

219. I can choose to connect to or to disconnect from my body, a simple ‘yes’ to this or ‘yes’ to that. What follows the yes is simple in one case (connection to the body) and complicated in the other case (disconnection to the body).

220. Gyl I love what you have written here, the keys of which for me are: that everything is a choice, and that it is a simple choice to re-imprint past choices that do not support us. I love the connection with your body that you have established. This is a daily practice of mine, to refine and strengthen my connection to me.

221. I have been noticing that every layer of abuse I remove from how I treat myself also then ripples out to how I then treat others. This also shows itself in what I am willing to say yes and no to in my relationships.

222. Thank you Gyl. I loved reading this again. How simple it is to change an old pattern by moving our bodies in a way that reconfigures it.

223. Dear Gyl this feels so inspiring to me. I’d love to connect to that part in me as you did and let it go as no big deal as for me it always seemed such a big deal.

224. Wow if we look back over the course of our life, there is so much that happens that doesn’t feel right. Imagine how that accumulates and affects our body? I have found as you describe Gyl that the simplest exercises you could imagine in the world, Connective Tissue Exercises are actually like keys for unlocking this energy. It may sound too basic to be believed, but why don’t we give them a go? We may see then the absolute power our body has to heal itself.

225. Wow, just a few minutes of movements each day can release patterns of abuse spanning decades. Just so confirming of my body’s constant pull to return to harmony, the quality it naturally and innately is. And yes, if this can be changed with such ease then all abusive patterns can too. A choice between choosing our bodies or choosing beliefs and ideals that run us into the ground including the one that it has to be hard to return our lives to harmony and love.

226. I still find it amazing how little simple acts we do that honour and nurture ourselves have such a big impact and effect. It is also not surprising how many women feel shut down in the pelvic area as it has been so sexualised in the media if I were a women I would probably find it hard to fully embrace the area.

227. “To feel this, I didn’t have to go into analyzing my past choices, or wallow in my woes, I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way,” and what a breath of fresh air this is to read Gyl thank you. What I have come to realize that when we go in body first so to speak, it fast tracks the whole process, empowering us to connect to what we have buried and feel it, which can be uncomfortable, but enables us to release it. The Esoteric Connective Tissue is such a tender and extremely powerful way to achieve this. When we focus on quality of movement and what is actually happening in our body when we ask it to move in a particular way affords us an observation platform from which we can then assess the quality of our relationship with our body, the quality of mobility, aches, pains and attitudes towards ourselves. And like you, this tender healing modality has revolutionized my relationship with dealing with my stuff and shown me a completely new way to appreciate, honour and nurture my physical body as the inseparable best friend that it is to me.

228. Thanks Gyl. What you have shared here flies in the face of a lot of counselling approaches, where the focus is to identify and analyse hurts from the past. It is amazing to feel the shifts in the body through presence and movement, without even needing know the story behind the contraction or protection that is being released.

229. This makes complete sense to me Gyl that if we have for a period of time felt distain for negatively about a certain part of my body then to actively choose to get support and make those changes to connect past those thoughts that have been so ingrained. To bring a loving relationship and moving differently then we have every chance to be who we naturally are designed to be.

230. This is beautiful Gyl a pleasure to read and know for myself as is the profoundness of our choices committed to with consistency and love. Connective tissue therapy is so supportive for the body as it can change life long patterns and configurations in our body and makes so much difference to ones life allowing a flow and harmony inside from our connection to ourselves. I am also finding that Connecting to this sacred part of our body as a women is very healing and confirming allowing our true awareness to be accessed and lived.

231. I am experiencing a lot of changes in my life as I develop my respect for, and awareness and care of, my body. Behaviours and patterns rooted in past hurts and ill choices are coming to the surface and shifting… at times this feels pretty miraculous.

232. The years that some people spend to change abusive patterns is and has always been a simple move away and as you have found Gyl, it starts with having a relationship with yourself.

233. I get more and more aware of the energies which are at play and the choice I have to let myself be drawn to an energy or consciously choose the energy. The realisation is when I choose the energy I am still often in my head and thus am not filled with the true energy and there comes in the pictures I have of something, or the ideals and beliefs I still carry which hinder me to truly be open to choose the truth. The beauty in this is that this process exposes the ideals, beliefs and pictures being an energy which is disconnecting me to the truth inside of me.

234. This is so true Gyl; that we so often “brush aside the grandness of things, thinking it’s no big deal.” We seemed to have been ‘programmed’ to think that only the biggest production numbers are worth taking the time to celebrate, whereas you have shown so beautifully that finally being able to make a loving connection to your pelvic area is worth celebrating for its absolute grandness.

235. Amazing Gyl that a shift in the body can happen so fast! It really highlights how we build up this tension within our bodies every day and carry around so many unresolved burdens which are unnecessary. What I get from your article is that the body has a natural state of sacredness.

236. Our bodies get configured by our ideals and beliefs and by experiences that we hold onto. This blog shows that by choosing to become aware of the body it is very easily able to let go of any internal dis-figurement and as the energy re-configures we can reconnect with the warmth, tenderness and love that resides naturally in the body.

237. Gyl, your blog demonstrates how vital it is for us to connect to our body. We all have areas in our body that we are unaware of and once we do connect to them we reawaken the feeling and so it does feel precious just like the body of a new born babe.

238. The timing of your sharing is very appreciated Gyl, thank you. I have an appointment with Kate Greenaway-Twist this afternoon which I made about 2 months ago. The sessions are always amazing, insightful and very supportive and today I’m really appreciating that I will ask for support with deepening my awareness and support with my pelvic floor. This is a part of my body that I turned by connection off to many moons ago and now I know ‘I’ choose to simply turn it back on.

239. Something I found very important for us to consider from this blog is how our body can be completely changed, but if we don’t allow ourselves to stop and feel what it actually feels like, we completely miss out on feeling and appreciating this. Our belief that we don’t like a part of our body can keep us in blinkers, avoiding and unable to see what has changed. This has really highlighted how important it is to keep feeling with openness, not expecting it to feel a certain way, so my body can let me know how it actually feels and support me to grow in my relationship with myself.

240. It was wonderful to read this blog, as so many of us don’t like certain parts of our bodies and believe that the way they feel is fixed and unchanging. How amazing that a few minutes morning and night can completely change the way the body feels. Better than that is how we can feel about our body, as a negative feeling towards ourselves does so much harm. I find it so lovely when I feel lovely from inside my body. It is almost impossible to treat myself with any harm.

241. Disconnection from a part of the body is something i find interesting. I mean we are literally very connected to all parts of our body – we do walk around in and with them 24/7. So I always find it interesting that I can disconnect and live in such a way that I think I’m disconnected. But once the connection comes back I realise I was never actually disconnected, just pretending as all along I could feel what was there once I make the choice to be conscious of what I’m feeling.

242. Wow, this is really powerful. I know I can go into thinking that in order to heal something I need to go back to what it was, analyse it and work on it in order to heal what is there. You blow this out of the water. Choosing to move in a different way is all that is needed and then we allow that body to heal.

243. It is our choices that determine how we will feel in any given moment at any time during the day. Life is a accumulation of all the choices we’re making. The more loving choices we make, the more we become aware about both our body and the truth of the world. Both can feel very unpleasant to connect to at first, but soon after we’ll feel how much love can possibly flow through our body, into our lifes. And we’re the master of that life as Gyl so beautifully portrayed.

244. My thoughts often try to convince me of the fact that a simple choice to move in a different way or to feel myself for a moment will not change anything about how I feel, but my experience is that it does. A simple choice to move differently in the way we feel is true, can change us from feeling down to feeling beautiful.

245. The power of Connective Tissue Therapy, is that it is working tenderly and most directly with the body that is carrying every thing we have lived. “Your body is real and it is always truth-full. This is because it is with you in everything you do.” ~ Serge Benhayon (Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, p 591).

246. Even though life is full of choices it is unwise to mistake choice with willpower to overcome a judged bad behaviour.

247. ‘…the changes and expansion from these simple movements in my body is immense. Until last night I didn’t realise how much, as I tend to brush aside the grandness of things, thinking it’s no big deal.’ – I too am learning the immense importance of simple movements, it is never about how much or how big the movements are, but the quality and the consistency of how we choose to make the movements.

248. Connective Tissue Therapy is a remarkable modality purely because of the simplicity of the minute movements which are so subtle you hardly even feel them, but which have the most profound effect on the body. I have not come across anyone who has experienced this modality who cannot say they have never felt so deeply relaxed and in tune with their body after having a Connective Tissue Therapy session.

249. Susan, I can feel in your words you live that absolute truth. It’s not knowledge but absolute pure lived body experience.

250. This is so powerful, Gyl – “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” Bringing conscious movement to any short or long term holding pattern in the body really does shift things, creating more space and flow as well as continually bringing us into greater and more subtle awareness of what is there to be discarded that prevents us from being our amazing true selves.

     1. Very true, Janet Williams, I can feel how the way I walk is continuing to alter through being consciously aware of it. I use to stamp up the stairs, I regularly had bruises on my thighs from bumping into things. More care and aware has meant that I am being more gentle with myself and I can feel more of a natural flow and grace emerging through this commitment.

251. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me.” To reconfigure the unloving patterns can be so entrenched that they feel such a huge task that to do so is overwhelming. Yet as you share so well, Gyl, “It doesn’t have to be a big deal.”

252. So powerful. Thank you for sharing how profound our movement and connective tissue is Gyl.

253. Allowing an energy in that makes us abuse our self, and our body is endless. It is that free will thing! Who has not tried something and after thought that was not that bad? Are these not just the baby steps to full blown abuse on an industrial scale, that we have come to be known as normal life? And as you have expressed Gyl… it is possible with a simple choice of how we move.

254. Gyl I was just considering how your story, your sharing of abuse, is something that for most people, myself included in the past, I would not even have registered as abuse. I would think of it as life, and that’s making me consider. What else do I consider part of life that is not at all part of the true way of living?

255. I too had completely numbed out my pelvic floor and hip region and had never realised this until the esoteric healing modalities started thawing it out. What a revelation and now connecting to this area of my body is quite literally a heavenly feeling. This is such a precious part of us, we have so much to learn about truly honouring it.

256. The way we move is a choice. We can either do this with total love and care for our body and ourselves or not. We can either be connected totally, mind body and soul or not. We can either be ruled by our head or not. These all come down to the one choice to honour who we are, knowing we are more than just flesh and bone and that the spirit is but part of the soul. Because we do not honour ourselves it can take some time to realise the abuse that we have allowed and as we deepen our awareness and the abuse becomes more evident we have an opportunity to let go of any judgements we might have around it and release the energy it has been holding us in for so long. Changing our movements to true movements does this all for us. How great then is true movement including, of course, the Connective Tissue Therapy movements that you mention.

257. I have attended some Connective Tissue Exercise workshops with the deeply inspiring Kate Greenaway also, and found this work to be deeply rejuvenating and offering a wonderful platform for connecting with my body in my everyday activities. To move and honour the body in such simple and deeply honouring ways completely changes one’s energy levels, focus and response to the tasks and activities of a day – going to show that it is most certainly possible to feel quite harmonious with our own bodies, if we simply give them and ourselves the care we deserve. Amazing.

258. How absolutely brilliant Gyl – to simply connect with your body, bring awareness and attentiveness to it, and re-establish a connection that sounds as though it was just waiting for you to let it in 🙂
     It’s been my experience also, that our bodies respond amazingly to such simple, loving presence and connection. This should be education 101 – from the very outset.

259. What is clear here, is the fact that self healing is the truest form of healing… “to connect to my body and move, doing two Connective Pelvic Floor Exercises for a few minutes every day – nothing else – I actually feel absolute love in and for this whole area…” A commitment to our body certainly brings about everlasting change or transmutation of an energy that once makes you think one way about the body.

260. The Esoteric Connective Tissue Exercise for the pelvic floor is a great way to restore feeling and has helped me connect to my prostate!

261. I loved your comment – ‘If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me’. This is the choice we live with everyday and often blame a pattern we have as being too ingrained when all we need to bring to it is commitment and self-discipline. It is about being deeply honest with ourselves and choosing to love who we truly are and to honour that.

262. We can make it seem that to change anything in our lives is ‘too hard’, ‘too complicated’ or simply ‘impossible’. But what you are sharing here Gyl is that it is possible to change anything in our lives by being fully aware of our bodies and a simple movement. This is groundbreaking and very very inspiring.

     1. True, Sandra. We identify with our holding patterns, not realising that by introducing new and true movement, any old ways can be let go of.

263. This is an amazing account of the way we can hold ill feeling in parts of our body and the most subtle, tender movements can heal. Healing then becomes living with deep sensitivity, care and love of our bodies. Very beautiful and simple.

264. Truly transformative to be able to work with the body in this way and yet have such a profound and healing effect on what has happened in the past. Connective Tissue Therapy is a most tender yet deeply active form of body work.

265. This is living proof Gyl that simple choices made day after day can and does move mountains.

266. I love the combination of both appreciation and dedication to yourself and – in this case – your pelvic floor. What is very clear is that your commitment and consistency build such a solid foundation in actually a short period of time. This is beautiful to read and feel. As well as inspiring and confronting.

267. It is amazing how different a day can feel when holding steady to our connection of love and appreciation for our selves and everyone equally. Whatever the sticky, awkward or uncomfortable feeling that may arise, holding us all in the absolute knowing that we are truly divine beings first, the out plays of our human responses, behaviours or reactions hold no power over us and we can choose to let go.

268. What you share is HUGE. It reveals the simple fact that by movement we can change how we feel and think. Why are we then trying to tackle the mind, instead of first looking at how the body is and being moved?

269. I have been doing pelvic floor exercises too and am beginning to build a relationship with that part of my body that I have disregarded for a very long time. And I have much appreciation for the opportunity to re-connect to my pelvic floor, which now is beginning to feel tender and spacious and the beginning of my re-connection to me as a woman.

270. I am always inspired by the fact that when we choose to feel what is going on in our bodies, rather than fight the tension by trying to dull, ignore or numb, how much healing is then possible. The science behind all of this is something we all need to know as this revelation is a game changer for us all.

271. Connective tissue allows us to deeply feel and appreciate every part of our body. Many of us have never had this level of awareness in our bodies before. I am amazed when I can feel what i have not felt for such a long time.

272. This is amazing Gyl. I love that you didn’t go into self-abuse about the abuse that you had previously allowed in your body, this would have made the abuse worse. Thank you for sharing that making the simple choice to connect to your body and move it in a different way was what was required to re-imprint the previous abuse. This is very powerful.

273. The beauty is the simplicity and the movement of a choice. The results speak for themselves.

274. ‘I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way,’ and this is what connective tissue exercises offer us to move in a very subtle and gentle way connected with ourselves with any area of our body. Very powerful, as each movement counts in allowing space and love in our lives.

275. Connective Tissue sessions always leave my body feeling very open and expanded and everything inside feels like it is working together in a harmonious and fluid way.

276. How programmed we are to huff and puff about things and make a big drama out of making changes. As you share here, so beautifully Gyl, it is all about true choices and the quality we bring to our everyday and by bringing conscious presence to our body, old abusive patterns can be healed.
     “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal”.

277. Wow Melinda this sounds amazing and its something I would like to explore some more myself. My relationship with the connective tissue of the pelvic floor has been all about function, and worrying about keeping it functioning, but what you are sharing seems very different…. I would love to explore this for myself.

278. It is amazing what happens when we commit to a program. The connective tissue exercises themselves offer such an opening and ease to the body that is quite exquisite. However I have also found the commitment to a program, and therefore to our evolution plays a huge role energetically in the changes that occur. Commitment is saying yes to yourself, to caring deeply for your body and being and to being willing to grow.

279. It is an amazing and simple thing to focus on bringing a beautiful quality to our movements. Yes there is much tightness or tension or unpleasant things we might feel, and these certainly need to be acknowledged. However, when our focus becomes the silky quality that we all essentially hold deep within, then life changes completely because of the quality that we can choose. The key is to be aware of this quality and know that even if we cannot always feel it ourselves, it still lies within each and every one of us, and nothing can essentially take it away from us. Our essence simply is. And it is for us to connect to this and build a relationship with it, and allow it to express through the way we move, speak, blink etc.

280. This is so incredible to read Gyl. I salute you for being willing to share so openly and honestly so that we all might learn and evolve from your experience. The beautiful way you have shared has allowed me to feel why I have avoided pelvic floor exercises and it has also allowed me to feel that healing is simple if I choose it.

281. You have presented how simple it can be to connect to ourselves and effect change with out it being a big deal Gyl, and which is in fact monumental 🙂

282. ‘…purely through a lack of self-worth, a need, and growing up thinking I would find love outside of myself from someone else or in a relationship, rather than inside me, and my relationship with myself.’ – The sad reality is that not many of us grow up with the understanding that we all come from love, i.e we ARE love, we simply need to re-connect to what is already naturally within us – yet we learn from a very early age that ‘love’ comes from the outside when we behave in a certain way. It is the sure path to a lack of self-worth.

283. A powerful blog highlighting the changes that are possible in our body when we choose to change our movements. I have found it’s important to truly appreciate such changes and not ‘brush them aside’ as I have tended to do in the past.

284. It is like a breath of fresh air to know that abuse can be reconfigured by a simple choice. How many people go through a life time suffering from the affects of abuse? It is carried in the body as a scar that can influence behaviour and dominate emotionally. How amazing that it is possible to heal these very real scars by being willing to love ourselves in the way that you have, using very real and tangible tools for healing.

285. It is incredible how if we choose to wallow in our negative choices this can have a devastating impact on how we feel and move in the world. So to bring a loving focus to something that in the past was abusive choices and to not focus on this but to feel new loving choice can totally change the way you relate with ourselves and how the body communicates with us.

286. Gyl, I love what you are sharing here, ‘If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.’ I can feel how its easy to have a fixed idea of who we are and how we are and have things we do not like about ourselves or parts of our body that we do not like, what you are sharing here shows how we can evolve and make loving changes and that we do not have to live with certain ways of thinking or certain behaviors that hold us back and also that we can adore our bodies completely.

287. It is true we don’t have to live with residues of past abusive behaviour still held in the body, it is possible to clear them using simple but profound modalities like Esoteric Connective Tissue. Your blog Gyl will inspire others to not merely accept things as they are and to make the choice to seek help and healing.

288. An amazing realisation and healing shared from a simple choice to choose to be honest and heal ourselves and our body through the esoteric healing modality of connective tissue therapy and the program you set yourself. This is very inspiring and such a beautiful sharing and knowing to feel thank you.Inspirational !.

289. How many lifetimes have we carried around with us self-abusive ideals and beliefs? The choice to change these old patterns with new movements that come from within us is so simple and powerful with what we discover about ourselves.

290. For a very long time my pelvic floor was a foreign area of my body until I had a regular practice of Connective Tissue exercises. Now they are an integral part of my day, supporting me to connect to the sacredness that lies within. When I first started doing these exercises regularly, it also brought up lots of feelings of shame and sadness from past experiences. It has been incredible to offer myself the space to feel through what it has been that I have been holding and through this reconnection allowing these emotions to release and let go.

291. The belief that we find love outside is very common and often dominates our behaviours and the intention of our action. It can be obvious but also very hidden in the so called ” good doing.” Often we do not realize and grasp in full how harming and self destroying this is. I still find myself in situations allowing abuse in not truly choosing to be connected with me in full and feeling the effects of it later in my body.

292. It is amazing what the simple techniques of the Connective Tissue exercises do offer us. I also found that I was not connected with my pelvic floor when I was asked in one of my sessions with Kate to connect with it. What I found there was so precious and profound that I cannot imagine myself anymore that I would live in disconnection with it.

293. Cherise, as I read your description of how hard on ourselves we have been, regretful, abusive, shameful… and then you follow that by saying that ‘deep down we do love our bodies’ I felt a release in my own body; the relief of realizing that I really do love me and that my body is my key back home to love. I have tears of joy as I reconnect to this truth. Thank you.

294. One of things I have discovered from my healing journey with Universal Medicine is the power of making a seemingly small change in my life. Just making a true commitment to change can be transformative. It does not have to be complicated! If you truly want the truth it will be delivered! Thank you Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting another way of living that works for me.

295. Great comment Karoline. I have found, often I know what is a loving choice and what is not but then I often find myself choose the unloving choices. So, I feel by being aware of our choices is great and what supports us as well is to connect to our body. When we truly listen to it, combined with our awareness that we do have a choice, it can be very powerful in supporting us through life.

296. Reading your blog again Gyl, reminds me to take more care of my body, to listen and understand how important it is to connect to it. Our body reflects so much of our choices and when we choose to connect to it and listen we are always lovingly guided to live according to its natural rhythm, whereas if we override what we can feel in our body it can cause a lot of discomfort and eventually may lead to dis-ease.

297. Such a simple modality that is deeply felt within, and which our body is always willing to release and heal when we connect.

298. Hello Gyl and while I have had Connective Tissue Therapy in the past and it’s been extremely supportive. Reading this blog makes me want to go and book a session for this reason. Kate Greenaway-Twist is a master at it as well, she’s a great practitioner and I look forward to my next session.

299. Gyl, how awesome! This would have to be my favourite line ‘ It doesn’t have to be a big deal.’ It’s so nice to hear you/anyone say that. Of course it doesn’t have to be a big deal. I’ve been avoiding connecting to parts of my body for a very long time. In fact it’s probably most of my body that I ignore when I think about it, because I simply don’t want to feel what’s there. But reading you say that it’s not about dwelling on the past and that it doesn’t have to be a big deal is very encouraging! Thank you!!

300. Awesome blog Gyl. What you share is simple but incredibly significant – by allowing the space to connect with our body, deep healing naturally occurs. I have found this too, and my mind still struggles with the fact. Taking a moment to reflect on what has occured is important too – I can be dismissive of the effects of incremental change unless I allow this time.

301. What you’re offering here is a big deal – that it’s possible to by-pass the emotion of picking over our familiar hurts and stories and instead achieve significant healing through simply making a dedicated connection to our bodies.

     1. I agree Cathy – I am blown away by the way that movement can truly support us to heal.

302. Changing a pattern that is 20 years old and re-configuring it to one that is loving, beholding and confirming exposes the old beliefs around ‘can’t teach an old dog new tricks’. Everything is a choice and this offers an opportunity to go deeper in exploring the moments when we want to hold on to something that is not life-giving. Comfort and disregard are big in the society we live in but you have shown here Gyl that to deeply connect and to consistently practice connective tissue exercises does support us to change long held pictures and lifestyles that do not support us.

303. Thank you Gyl for a really great sharing, I know how powerful connective tissue exercises are in connecting us to what is going on in our bodies. I have to smile, while you are going across the seas to Kate I am going across the seas to Jane, and what we are both receiving the opening up and healing of our pelvic floor area is immense.

304. Yes, we have the choice to be fully aware of our past self abuse and then to let the abuse go. It is quite liberating.

305. It is true, when we abuse ourselves or abuse a part of our body like the pelvic area or the digestive system, we would rather not feel the consequences of that abuse even though feeling the depth and impact of our behaviour is the easiest and one of the most powerful ways to heal the consequences of the abuse.

306. How truly inspiring you blog is Gyl, a very special sharing. This is such a loving lived wisdom for us all to connect with, that we can choose simply to re-connect with our bodies and feel the loveliness of who we truly are in our essence. Past choices of external actions don’t alter our beautiful essence that is simply, patiently, tenderly waiting for us to feel that is all there ready to radiate the depth of the love we innately are.

307. How beautiful and inspiring to read the possibility to re-connect with simple exercises. I can feel some hesitation in me taking the time each day, but I can feel the benefits you’re experiencing. The resistance and ignorance I’m feeling is something for me to be honest about and deal with.

308. Gyl, it is quite miraculous your experience of Connective Tissue Therapy and highlights how healing the Universal Medicine therapies are. People really need the support that these therapies and its practitioners offer.

309. I also can relate to what you share Gyl it is really inspiring what you have shared.

310. Great point Alex that a decision to change something is not enough, as I know often I have wanted to change something only to find I keep going back to the old ways of doing something. I have found that when I support my choice to change with a commitment to a practical change in how I move my body then it is much more likely to stick.

311. It is amazing to realise that even if we have a momentum of something for a long time it can always be reversed by simply choosing to stop feeding it with our movements.

312. What I love feeling from this blog is how it shows that emotion is not something that naturally comes from the body. The body is naturally very delicate and delicious and very yummy when it is truly met, so everything else we feel is introduced to the body.

     1. Incredible point Joshua. I feel this every time I really get in my body (out of my racy head); how alive, yummy sensitive and never emotional my body is and subsequently my life is when I am living in touch with/in harmony with my body.

        What Serge presents, represents and has shown me has helped me choose to stop and feel that the body/my body is my key to my true life, my connection to myself and everyone else.

        The more I get in touch with my body the more I know that Truth feels amazing with no need for stimulation, distraction or elevation.

        How precious this blog is in showing how powerful it is to get in touch with parts of our bodies we have disassociated from on one level or another.

313. We have all taken abuse in one form or another and allowed it to continue for many different reasons. But what you are presenting here Gyl is that we are literally just one step away from changing that, if we are willing to first be aware of it, and second willing to say ‘no’ to what does not feel right in our bodies without any shame or guilt, by choosing to stay connected to who we are.

314. The exercises you are doing sound wonderful Gyl, as is your commitment to yourself and the love you now have for your body.

315. Taking time to connect with the different parts of part and understanding how they support me not just physically but energetically has given me a whole new way to live and understand my daily movement.

316. Beautiful Gyl – how we are able to re-imprint all of our life time habits, behaviours, with true healing techniques , with Esoteric Connective Tissue therapy we are able to heal and let go of all hurts, pains and patterns in a truly beautiful way.

317. It’s a beautiful thing how we don’t have to go back into all the story and ‘figure stuff out’ regarding past abusive behaviour that we may have had, but merely focusing fully on the part of the body that has been neglected (as Gyl demonstrated here) and moving it in a more loving and gentle way can clear the issue that has been stored in the body for so long. Alex has described this very well in the above comment.

318. Love it – everything is a choice; and to consistently work on it and give yourself permission to change something, especially if that thing feels age-old, stubborn, or too hard, the fact that is there always niggling at you it is probably very important that you focus on it and give it the quality it deserves. Consistency is the key.

319. Brilliant Gyl – your honesty and directness is so refreshing it’s got me wondering about how I really feel about this area of my own body. The pelvic floor feels like it holds everything in place, like a foundation where everything else can be and live from. More attention to this area is certainly not a time waster.

320. Hear! Hear! I have felt it is true that when I have built a loving rhythm the results I get are confirmed back to me. Also I have found that the ‘choice’ to be connected to my divine aspect is what makes all the difference! Now my choice is to continue to slowly chip away at my resistances so I can build a ‘consistent’ rhythm so that I can stay connected to my divine aspect.

321. ‘If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me.’ This is profound when I stop and think about it. We often think we have to put up with our hurts and they are part of us. We do not think it is even possible to heal our hurts in a moment. Yet, if you can heal something that big by connecting, nominating and moving in a way that the abuse held in this part of you body is reconfigured, what else is possible?

322. This inspired me to take far more care and embrace an even deeper level of my own connection and awareness of and with my own body. To build a deeper understanding of what it shares and the wisdom of what it has to say. The very fact that we can disconnect and ignore a part of our body and in fact live with little awareness of the fact shows that there is more stored in our bodies than just flesh and blood. And whatsmore is the fact that no part of the body is in any way disgusting or not beautiful regardless of its age it is there to support and live with us in full till we pass, never to be on our backs or against us in any way.

323. What you write about here Gyl is so true, many women do not want to talk about their body parts let alone connect to them and then admit that they love them. For many women the pelvic floor is ignored until something starts to highlight as a problem, but never do you read articles such as this one, not even in the women’s magazines.

324. Thank you Gyl. You show just how simple it is to make changes in life by making a different choices, the old beliefs and patterns just dissolve. I did the connective tissue exercises once at a workshop with Kate and you remind me how powerful this subtle form of exercise is. An inspiring blog.

325. The changes that are able to be made by reconnecting honestly with our bodies are nothing short of profound. Recently i heard someone say you can’t change I was shocked…. In actual fact people change all the time it just depends on whether we become more insular or more expanded.

326. It is amazing how the body can show us love when we make the commitment to take a little more care with it.

327. Very timely read. Just last night I was talking with a group of friends (women) and asked how, in a very practical way, I can learn to let go of the tension in my pelvic floor. Now I know! Thanks Gyl.

328. I love what you are saying here Gyl about how making more self-loving choices doesn’t have to be a big deal. We just have to connect to the fact that we want more love in our lives and then consistently choose more love.

329. Gyl, your sharing the difference in how you feel about just one part of your body, is beyond amazing, it is the answer that so many spend years and bucket loads of money to find, yet don’t because there is no suggestion to change the way we move. What you have shared is the key to truly healing from our bodies the held traumas we have from life. No head shrinking needed, only a loving dedication to move our bodies differently, with the deepest care and love for the body we have, as it is right now.

330. Making a different choice, is as simple as making it. A great confirmation of how simple it is Gyl.

331. This statement highlights the power of movement “ I didn’t have to go into analysing my past choices, or wallow in my woes, I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way, following the Connective Tissue Exercises with a very loving quality, every day.” This is gold, Gyl and you saved yourself a fortune in counselling.

332. Amazing Gyl – incredible how so often the subconscious unwillingness to not address an area which has caused us much hurt is actually no big deal at all; it is actually the lack of honesty and not dealing with it which is the greatest harm. Wonderfully supportive blog; thank you.

333. It goes to show that we need not carry our past ill choices and abusive patterns with us until the end of time….we can choose to let these go and lighten our load in a big way.

334. How many of us have ‘numb pockets’ in our bodies? Those places where we store our pain, our self loathing and disgust, hidden away in a ‘no go zone’ awaiting that time that we have the support and the love to go there and heal what has been buried deep.

335. I love this super simple and powerful share that we CAN change anything in our life that is not loving or supportive and how our loving connection with our body is a perfect start.

336. Thank you Gyl so much for your open and honest blog. How healing for anyone to read this and understand how simply we can shift the ill imprints in our body from just connecting to the body and moving in a gentle smooth rhythmical way. Imagine a world where people came back to loving themselves and their bodies as you are now, there would be no domestic violence, disharmonious relationships and our communities would be truly supportive rather than separative.What a world that would be ……

337. In every moment in every day we have the opportunity to re-imprint all that is not love, with love. All it takes is a choice and then a continual choosing every moment thereafter. In this way we replace our old and loveless momentums with a true and loving way of being. Thank you Gyl for a very simple yet profound example of this.

338. Re-configuring old patterns that are seemingly stuck in our bodies doesn’t have to be a big deal, as you say Gyl. Most often it’s our reluctance to see and accept, without judgment, our past choices and ways that we have been living, that gets in the way of making changes to better support ourselves. It’s only when we’re prepared to get honest with ourselves that we can begin to make changes that last.

339. Having had many sessions with Kate over the past few years I can appreciate the difference the wonderful exercises she has tailored for me have made to my body. Thank you for a great sharing Gyl.

340. It really all comes down to the choices we make, and one seemingly small choice plus consistency can change everything; thank you for putting it so simply and making it practical.

341. That’s it Gyl – we don’t have to beat ourselves up for our past choices or serve a penance. It’s as simple as making the choice to treat ourselves tenderly and with the love that we deserve that assists the healing process.

342. If we taught all young men and woman to have this level of respect and care for their bodies from a young age, would we have less of a battle with attempting to instil in them the need to have safe sex, not sleep around dangerously, use protection and care for themselves.

343. Movement with grace and connectedness changes everything. It is amazing how I feel my body re-align to the beauty of the true woman I am when allow myself to move in this way… energy first.

344. Imagine that, being able to clear something you have held on to for such a long time just clearing so simply with connective tissue exercises. I have so much to learn about the power of this modality. Thank you for sharing.

345. Gyl it is beautiful to read of your willingness to connect to your pelvic area and how by doing so you reconnected to the love that you feel in and for this part of your body. I am working on building love for each and every part of my body and appreciating how this is shifting my internal dialogue and I am starting to feel that I am not just enough but more than enough.

346. Better to live a truth than remember one.

     1. So true, nothing like the livingness to make things real and practical.

347. Gyl, this is inspiring. Pelvic floor exercises will be on the menu for me morning and night and I’ll also re-commence the connective tissue exercises. They are an incredible support to reconnect with our body and essentially fall in love with ourselves deeply, beautifully – that is with ALL of us, with every part of our tender body.

348. I agree, Alison, it is amazing to realise how simple things can be when we set aside our aptitude for complication and resistance.

349. Putting aside the chance of sounding weird, I too am inspired by your pelvic floor! How amazing to develop so quickly and simply, a relationship with a part of your body you had shunned for so long. Very cool. Thank you for sharing, Gyl.

350. Wow Gyl – what you share here is huge and what a massive step forward it is to clear some 20 years worth of disconnection. The power is in when we take ourselves out the way how we can deeply heal, and also the very topic of disconnection from the pelvic floor is one I relate too.
     When I was little I had a weak bladder and everyone told me about pelvic floor exercises but it was a chore I had to abide by, and then yes I certainly threw my body at people and felt very numb in that area. Since recently having a baby I’ve been asked to strengthen my pelvic floor again but now I have an opportunity to do this in appreciation for my body and not because I’m told too. Your blog has inspired me to connect to my body on a much deeper level.

351. This is a truly affirming blog about appreciating what is already there inside us beneath the hurt and pain of abuse. Letting this emerge to be felt through a change of movement in the body is a profoundly different way from all the hard contracting exercises in current practice for strengthening the pelvic floor. It has to be movement from a source of love and wisdom of the body, knowing how it works energetically. Thank you Gyl for the reminder that we do not have to wallow in our stuff about the hurt of past choices; it is important to recognise why we cut off from feeling, but know the choice to connect to the love that is always there is now, in this present moment.

352. This is inspiring Gyl. Thank you for sharing.

353. What a great example for how our choices not just influence but make our day and way of living! I know this, having sex without wanting it or to get something else out of it – it was abuse to myself. And than, I do not want to feel ‘this area’ what holds the experience and the choices I made. And than I am disconnected to a part of my body, missing a part of me. What is in general a sad story, but also it means that I am disconnected to my wholeness, my divinity. And this is the way I am living than every day, bodily partly numb and always missing ‘something’ in my life…

354. How many times are the most complex problems solved with a simple choice?

355. Absolutely Gyl what potential there is for self healing and how empowering this is – connecting to & being responsible for the energetic quality of our bodies is the medicine that will change the state of illness and disease as we know it today.

356. Gyl, your commitment to yourself by bringing attention to one area of you body that called for healing, and consistently devoting yourself to connect and practice brings new awareness to the process of healing. Keeping things simple is a re-curring theme.

357. There are many things in this great blog. The main one for me today is the fact that it highlights very well the options: we can either admit that there is something that is not right with us (even if we resist to share something is very intimate) and work on it; or we can keep it to ourselves, pay the consequences of keep going with it …. and die with it. The key to going for the first one is to really embody that whatever it is, it is not us.

358. This is powerful reading. I too am beginning to really see this. I had always thought that an ‘issue or hurt’ had to be cleared first in the mind/emotion or wherever…and then the body would follow. What I am seeing more and more is that through these deep connections and commitments with the body, these issues and hurts just naturally self-correct, clear or disappear. It’s an incredible science.

359. ‘If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.’ This is profound Gyl – the fact that we can reconfigure old patterns by a simple choice, a movement, goes to show we are more powerful that we have ever grown up to understand. What you are sharing is also that it is never to late to change.

360. As an Aqua Natal Teacher it is an amazing opportunity to be sharing this connection with other women, to cast out this idea that we need to squeeze and tighten our pelvic floor but to bring our awareness to its consistent support throughout our movements, naturally so.

361. Being disconnected from or even hating parts of our bodies is such a common thing especially amongst women. I have experienced it with different bits of me, and even as I type this I can see how impossible it is to feel whole if there are parts of us we reject. Who would have thought doing simple exercises would bring about such a huge healing? I can feel how joyful you are about reconnecting to this part of your body.

362. Gyl this is really inspiring to read especially “I simply made the choice to connect to this part of my body and move it in a different way, following the Connective Tissue Exercises with a very loving quality, every day.” as it applies to all of us in so many different ways. No drama simply connecting and moving in a different way with consistency.

363. Having started a similar programme myself, I’ve become aware of how when I move without awareness, my movements can be sharp, heavy, abrupt. Changing the focus of my attention to movement, not thought has made me more conscious of where I am and how I move. And as I write this, the quality of my movements just changed: I became aware of how I touched each key on the keyboard, and when I changed was present with how my finger tips touched the keyboard, the quality of my body and expression changed with it.

364. Gyl this is a super confirming blog as I have recently attended an “Pelvic Floor awareness Porgram” with Beverely Carter.
     http://www.itstimetoshine.com.au/pelvic-floor-awareness-on-line-workshop.html
     Connecting to my pelvic floor area through the consistency and delicacy of my breath has been profound.
     I can well relate to the disconnection from this area through repeatedly dishonouring myself in the belief that i was fitting in and then later on having had 3 children believing that i needed to tighten and squeeze this area of my body as if punishing myself back into shape in order to be sexually active once more. Through giving myself permission to feel the tiniest of movements in my pelvic floor I have felt a letting go of these old beliefs and a surrender to the exquisite power of what is right there available to us all.

365. Yes, Gyl when we suddenly begin to feel into what our body is telling us it feels awesome, and as though we have let go of a great burden of abuse that we have been carrying around with us for many lifetimes. For so long I have ignored any connection with the pelvic region and only seen it as functional. With support from Pelvic Floor sessions both in the UK and Australia I am beginning to feel the potency and beauty that we hold within. For me it is an ongoing revelation as I learn to honour my pelvic floor and realise that it holds my body together and in place – these wonderful muscles feel so expansive as I can feel them stretching from side to side and from my pelvic bone to my sacrum. As I walk down the street I can feel this amazing support and a connection that continues to deepen and expand as I meet others throughout my day. As we honour ourselves as women we inspire others to stop and ponder.

366. Hi Gyl, I can relate to brushing aside the grandness of things. I am very good at picking up on the negatives, but don’t actually stop to fully appreciate the many wonderful things I initiate, am part of or observe in my daily life. Since committing to changing this pattern, I am seeing the value in appreciating all the simple little things that used to go by unnoticed.

367. The power and simplicity of making a different choice beautifully expressed. I can spend so much time procrastinating because I make something into a ‘big deal’ but all I am doing is delaying my return to love which as I type it feels ridiculous – why would I do that? Is there a comfort in old patterns? No need to analyse this just choose different starting from now…

368. How often do we allow ourselves to be discouraged from making positives changes because we feel it will be ‘hard work’? Thank you for sharing how powerful making a simple commitment to move differently and treat your body with love has been, it is truly inspiring and the perfect way to address abuse one movement at a time.

369. It’s incredible how easily we can turn things around if we pay attention to our movements and the quality of how we are with everything, not just one body part, relationship etc… By moving differently as a whole we naturally heal the entire body.

370. A beautiful example of how a simple change of focus can heal and clear past choices.

371. So profound Gyl, that by simply nominating exactly what it was you were holding onto it started to clear right away. What is even more profound is how we train ourselves to hold onto things, such as you have described and push forward as if it is gone.

372. This is really powerful to awaken a deep feeling within us when we have chosen to be closed off from it in the past. I know, because I am experiencing the same feeling Gyl, We had decided to switch off from that connection and when we choose to feel it, there is a deep love within us waiting to be found again.

373. A beautiful blog Gyl. The simplicity of re-connection with consistency with our body is very powerful medicine. The body holds deep wisdom and once we choose to observe and respond to its call, true deep healing is possible.

374. The simple act of feeling our bodies can lead us to recognising the glory that walks with us every day. It truly does not have to be more complicated than that!

375. Thank you Gyl, I love the simplicity of all you share :). I have found that in reconnecting to my body as a whole in the last 10 years my relationship with myself has changed and how I now want to move and look after myself because I feel worthy of this self care and self love. However when I bring focus to one area of my body there is always much more to learn than I realised and this then deepens my connection with my whole body.

376. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” So true Gyl. Choosing to make simple daily changes with consistency enables a real change – that seemed an impossibility – almost miraculous.

377. Connection and conscious presence are truly self-healing. We can bring this quality to any part of our body and feel the changes, when I practice this it feels like the part that needs this loving quality is brought back to life, which of course it is. It’s being delivered harmony.

378. I saw a picture of the pelvic floor muscle group recently that was shown to me to deepen my understanding of this area and I was in awe of the patterns and the structure. I had never considered my pelvic floor as something that precious, it was an area I preferably ignored for similar reasons you share in your blog, but can feel now how deepening my connection to it supports me greatly in my self-honoring and worth.

     1. Isn’t it interesting how the body is there, doing its thing and we often don’t even know what organs we have and where they are located and what they are doing. How amazing is this body of ours, that can function without our so-called intelligent mind even knowing what is going on?

379. Yes, Gyl, I have been finding this too with myself and clients, that by introducing even the smallest movement in an area where there is tension, protection etc with presence, the holding pattern can shift and our relationship to that area can change completely. Such a simple yet powerful way to re-connect to every part of the body and release what has been held there that no longer serves us.

380. Such a simple but oh so great sharing Gyl. With the word abuse we often think of rape etc. but what you share is that every time we have sex when we do not really feel like it but feel the need for it and thus still do because we feel not good enough in ourselves is an disharmonious energy we let into our body which is abusive to our body.

381. I recently did a Pelvic Floor Awareness program and was surprised how much released from this muscle group just by feeling into this area and allowing myself to feel how my breath moves these muscles naturally so.

382. Gyl that is awesome and goes to show it is not about flogging ourselves for our past choices but rather changing our movements and appreciating the love that we are.

383. How beautiful that you got to feel and be aware of more of you through this program. Connective Tissue exercises and Connective Tissue Healing is the most beautiful of modalities that supports the body like nothing else I have experienced.

384. Thank you Gyl for this amazing sharing and realisation it is very powerful and shows the choices we can make that makes so much difference to our lives with simply connecting to our body in honouring and love . To know this is one thing but through our consistent gentle movements to really feel this in our body is another thing altogether and makes all the difference and is life and body changing as you share so beautifully.

385. Not focusing on what we have not done and leaving that behind us and focusing on the present moment and the choices that we have is very powerful. Each moment we have a choice to connect deeper with ourselves and our bodies, honour what it is communicating with us and feel the Grandness of who we are.

386. Hi Gyl, amazing sharing, I loved reading every word you wrote. And I am inspired to be even more aware of this part of my body, something that I have already started.

387. Thank you Gyl, this is very inspiring and shows that change does not have to be hard and arduous but just requires consistency and the willingness to care for ourselves.

388. Thank you Gyl, you bring to us the simplicity of change and just how, by committing to moving in a new way, a loving tender way, we can re-imprint a life time of abuse and find the love that lies deep within our bodies.

389. A great and simple sharing of the profoundness of how changing our movements alters our state of being.

390. Gyl, I love your articles, they are so simple and practical, what you are sharing here is huge. It makes me aware of how much abuse I have also allowed in this area of my body in the past and how I tend to avoid feeling this area, its great to have this awareness and as you say, ‘I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me. It doesn’t have to be a big deal.’

391. This is so very beautiful to feel because we have the choice to make a new movement for our living way in any moment at anytime. Awesome thank you Gyl what you share here is a perfect confirmation of how truly beautiful our bodies are and how surrendering to what they share we can make such positive changes to our whole lives.

392. An amazing change Gyl, truly. It shows that our past experiences are held in our body – that makes sense, right, because it’s the body we’re in that goes through them. So to have some simple exercises that ‘undo’ or deconfigure a part of the body is simple, yet remarkable.

393. Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy brings an awareness of the movement and flow of energy though our body. A beautiful recent quote I heard that sent vibrations tingling through my body: “movement or vibration is the connective tissue of the Universe.”

394. I am continually amazed that by making the choice a few years ago to begin to commit to the Connective Tissue Therapy exercises shown to me by Kate Greenaway regularly throughout my day, that today the way my body moves has changed beyond anything I thought was possible. I walk in a much more balanced and steady way, my hips flow with a grace I did not know I had, and even everyday movements like sitting down and standing up come with a beautiful ease. These exercises are part of my day, just the same as brushing my teeth, an absolute daily must.

395. Connection – the things we do in search of it and end up causing deeper disconnection….its crazy. Thanks for highlighting this through your story Gyl.

396. Gyl, thank you for the gorgeous simplicity with which you write and share your experience. It is deeply inspiring to feel the change that naturally presented by connecting more deeply with your body and how you choose to move.

397. The changes that are possible through Universal Medicine therapies are beyond measure. There are few people so far who allow the simplicity of those answers. There is the false belief that hard things must be hard to work on.

398. “If I can make a simple choice to change and reconfigure a more than twenty-year-old pattern of abuse in my body, then I can make a choice to change everything that’s not loving or supporting me.” Its true. What a power-full revelation Gyl. I love how you now love an area you once abused. The power of love through movement and what it can deliver, and, more power-full it is the commitment from you that brought this change. You had the support of an amazing modality Connective Tissue but the choice was yours to act on it.

399. Choosing to build a body that is aware and taking responsibility starts with these simple steps each and every day. The commitment to the foundation allows us to realise what is no longer needed as you have shared with this blog Gyl Rae.

400. A great confirmation of how when we commit to looking after ourselves, particularly in relation to how we move it gives us so much back in our bodies. I love to practice connective tissue exercises and it is very interesting to feel how much there are old patterns in the way I move that are not supportive to me at all and that have started to shift my staying on track with the programme that Kate Greenaway-Twist offers.

401. Yes – just how we are configuring our lives and bodies to be in every area and also know that we can reconfigure through our movements if we so choose.

402. An amazing sharing and you absolutely truly nailed it Adam. Society is backwards in this area and it is how we are with our bodies that change our thoughts.
     I always remember years ago when I was doing martial arts (because I falsely fell for the belief that I needed to be tough to protect myself ) and being told just think you can ‘mind power’ and you can do anything – I was told our mind can over ride what our body is telling us, we can get past the pain and do the intensity. Now yes part of this is true that we can override our body because people do it everyday by not listening to the body, however the body gets very hurt when we do this and we cut off our innate wisdom and become machines. Our body shows is all the consequences of these harming choices. So this in itself shows the amazingness of the body and how much it does know – do it makes complete sense that if we listened to this knowing the body would actually keep the mind in a balance and harmony. It is through the quality of our movements that change our mindsets and also heal the harm and imprints from the past.

403. I too over the past month have been doing with a very simple 5 to ten mins session everyday connecting to my pelvic floor area, feeling my breath and consciously knowing ini that with every breath all of my pelvic floor muscles are naturally working doing their very own harmonious syncrincy with the rest of my body. Playing with some very gentle and connected movements each day has allowed me to feel the magic and delicacy that is always in my body.

404. What a gorgeous realisation to know and feel in your body Gyl. ‘I have always heard and known the fact that everything is a choice, but until yesterday I have not felt this so clearly, simply and deeply in my body.’ it really does say an immense amount about the power of surrender, connection and repeating something very simple everyday – just goes to show the depth we can feel and go to.

405. Gyl-So beautiful and inspiring to read your findings re the powerful effects of connective tissue exercises, on your pelvic floor area, from experiencing selfabuse to now feeling tender, loving and precious. Awesome change over I month.

406. Wow Gyl, you express beautifully, the simplicity and power of connecting to parts of our bodies that we have forgotten about, or do not wish to feel into, a common problem with women I feel. We are so used to operating from the mother, fixer, doer, caretaker, and so on, that we can’t then connect to what is innately gorgeous and deeply sacred within us.

407. Amazing how connection brings appreciation and ultimately love

408. Gyl, thank you for sharing this. I have been on a similar solo program of reconnecting with this area of my body after sessions with Kate. The simple yet gorgeously profound exercise she showed me has been similarly revolutionary in terms of healing the abuse I have allowed, and in deepening my connection to myself as a woman. I would say as a result I am now more ‘woman in waiting’ than ‘woman in denial’. Embracing being a woman means connecting with being the woman – and from the body first as it is here our sacredness dwells.

     1. Gorgeous Victoria ‘more ‘woman in waiting’ than ‘woman in denial’. ‘ very well put.

     2. I love this Victoria – more ‘woman in waiting’ than ‘woman in denial’.

409. I really appreciate the simplicity of how you chose to heal this part of your body( and therefore this part of your life.) ️Thank you for showing how easy it was, I feel inspired to consider your approach.

     1. The beauty of it is we don’t need to work anything out – we just need to commit and feel for ourselves then after a little while (especially in comparison to the length of time we’ve been abusing or ignoring our bodies) we feel the beauty of us that has always lay waiting underneath.

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