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5 Ways to Quiet Your Inner Critic with Pilates

Submitted by Stacy Price-Darkis on Tue, 2012-01-10 12:57
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Good news your doing Pilates on a set schedule so your already working toward a more confident you! The amazing thing about practicing Pilates is the focus is on becoming self-aware in a positive way. The idea is to concentrate on the exercise you are performing by doing a mental checklist of points to focus on before you begin to move,   making it more likely the goal will be achieved.    Our society promotes self-objectification which allows you to disconnect from your body. Pilates asks that you re-connect with your body.

 

Let’s take a look at some steps we may take to get the focus back on a positive critique.
 

1. Switch the Scene: Pilates is the focus on becoming self-aware in a positive way quiet inner critic

You just caught yourself criticizing you again. Quickly change the path of destructive thought instead focus on the thing you do like about your body like, “My legs are really starting to show the muscle tone, the workouts are helping”.
 

2. Jot it Down:  

Take the time to jot it down when disparaging thoughts creep in. Adrienne Ressler says, “most women will be shocked by how much they beat themselves up.” The national training director and a body image specialist at the Renfrew Center, Philadelphia branch.
 

3. Be Present in the Moment: 

You’re  in your Pilates class and you start to pick at your body shape, size, ability. Stop the inner negative chatter and focus on your breath pattern, (are you breathing at all), how  is your alignment and form. Feel how your muscles are responding to your movement request. Be present in the task at hand and notice, “hey I reached to my toes this time, awesome!!”
 

4. A Realistic Role Model: 

So your never going to look like Poppy Montgomery on the TV show “Unforgettable”. Is that realistic anyway you are not unforgettable so is it more realistic to find someone in your world the real world who inspires you. I have a client who has an autoimmune disease called Mitochondria, and despite the odds stacked against her when she is out of the hospital she comes to do her private Pilates session with me, she inspires me! I bet it won’t take much for you to come up with someone you admire and is realistic.
 

5. Try an Activity You Enjoy: 

If it is going to the gym, a brisk walk, a run, attend a Pilates class with a buddy, a little exercise can lift your self-esteem whether it makes an apparent change in your body. You now have proof that you are trying to make the change you want to see in your life. So when your inner critic starts in on you it will be easier to shut it down. The change will become clear to you when you realize you are feeling better, mind, body, & spirit. Joy will return to your life.
 
Next we will tackle the solutions beginning a healthful 2012.
 
Stacy A. Price-Darkis, CPI, BCES
Studio 59 Pilates Fitness, LLC

 

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There is so much that you can

Submitted by joe33 on Wed, 2012-05-09 11:55.

There is so much that you can get from pilates. They do wonders for your body. I definitely recommend it so much. Keep up the good work. GIS Mapping

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