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L i s te n to T h e A B M P Po d c a s t a t a b m p.co m /p o d c a s t s o r w h e reve r yo u a cce s s yo u r favo r i te p o d c a s t s 25 SCAN AND WATCH "Creative Joint Play" SAV V Y SELF‡CARE 2. Look around the room with that imaginary eyeball on your fi ngertip, moving it in as many directions as possible. Notice when you repeat the same movement three or more times, and then create a new direction or choose a new pattern. 3. Next, add eyeballs to all fi ve of your fi ngertips and continue to move your fi ngers in new and unique patterns as your "fi nger eyes" look all about you. 4. Add more eyeballs to your carpels, elbow, and shoulder. Allow all these joints to "look" around you as you continue to invent, discover, and reveal new movements. Remember to "look" above, beside, and behind you with your movements. After about three breaths or so, pause all the movement. Notice if you sense any difference from the one arm that was moving, and the opposite arm that stayed stationary. Now, include both sides of your body as you playfully add numerous eyeballs to all your joints! 1. Begin to "see" with all your fi ngertips, both your elbows, shoulders, sacrum, ischial tuberosities, knees, feet, and more. Get curious about how many new and different patterns, movements, and expressions might fl ow from as many parts of your body as possible. 2. Continue to include your generous breath, wild curiosity, and kind smile. 3. Let yourself enjoy what you are creating in the moment. And allow your presence to grow. 4. Feel your body awakening into the moment with every new choice you make. You are creating! 5. When you feel complete, unwind slowly into stillness and savor all the sensations you created, and allow this feeling to cascade in, through, and around you. Explore Creative Joint Play for as long as you like. It only takes two minutes of intentional movement to create physiological and psychological changes that bring you out of tension and into fl ow. Exploring the potential of your kinesphere is a way to follow your intuition, delight in your own sense of wonder, and open to your boundless creativity. ARE YOU READY TO BLOOM?' Now is the perfect time to strengthen your energy system with action and creative expression. Use the uprising spring energy by moving yourself in new and unexplored directions—and trust that your intelligent body knows where the energy needs to go. Start with simple, mindful movements that evolve and expand into the new growth of your effl orescence. When you give yourself permission to bloom, you liberate stored tension, balance your energy systems, and cultivate the beautiful garden of your creative expression. Notes 1. Mukunda Stiles, Structural Yoga Therapy: Adapting to the Individual (San Francisco: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2005). 2. Kathlyn Hendricks, "Creative Joint Play Video," accessed January 2021, www.hendricks.com/creative-joint-play-video. Heath and Nicole Reed are co-founders of Living Metta, or Living "Loving Kindness." The Reeds have been team teaching national and international workshops and retreats since 2001. They place a strong emphasis on growing body intelligence, intuition, and self-care. They invite you to join their membership community to inspire and refresh your practice. Their bodywork, self-care videos, webinars, home- study courses, and more may be found at livingmetta.com. Use the uprising spring energy by moving yourself in new and unexplored directions—and trust that your intelligent body knows where the energy needs to go.