Hello, and welcome to Move Into Resilience! I'm your host, Pamela Stokes, and every week I'll be teaching you different techniques that you can use to become resilient to stress and to the difficulties in your life. Resilience is adaptation. It’s being able to be OK in your environment, and this is what leads to evolution. My background is in biology, and so all the movements that I'll be teaching you are evidence-based. Some are from ancient practices like Qi gong and Tai chi and others are more modern, like Feldenkrais and Hanna Somatics, as well as some EFT tapping.
I’ve also had the added benefit of experiencing having fibromyalgia, and I used these techniques to help myself heal from that. So, I felt that it was important for me to share them with you so that you could also learn that there are ways that you can help yourself. We're going to be using the process of neuroplasticity, which is the ability to change your brain. When you do something new, when you learn something new, you can make a new neural pathway, and the more you practice it the more it becomes a possibility that it is a permanent change. So we're trying to learn some of these things so that you can become resilient to stress, so that you can feel better in your environment. But ultimately, it's going to be changing your brain to release yourself from limiting beliefs and from things that might cause you upset in a particular moment. Some of the techniques will be things that you can use in your everyday life so that if something comes up that doesn't feel so good, you can use one of these techniques and feel better.
My mission, I’d say, is to help people to know that they can understand their bodies in their brains so that they can take some control, some responsibility, for how they feel, because when we feel well others around us will too. We have something that are called mirror neurons and these mirror neurons are designed to help us determine, “Is it safe out there?” And, so we can read what other people are feeling. So if you feel better others will too!
So, I hope you'll join me week by week and learn some of these things about yourself, and about your brain, and about your body, so that you can become resilient to life and all of the things that might be troubling you. Thanks for joining me, and I look forward to sharing!