Specific Applications of Being In Movement®

I have applied BIM with a broad range of individuals and groups.

I have worked, for example, with bicyclists, runners, golfers, pianists,
singers, carpenters, hairdressers, computer users, pregnant women, adult survivors
of child abuse, students, teachers, physical therapists, psychotherapists,
fitness instructors, and business executives.

Since BIM sees mental, emotional, physical and social functioning as fundamentally
the same and rooted in habits of body use, the basic tools of physical awareness
offer a means of improving functioning in a broad range of areas.

Daily Physical Activities: Understanding how the body can
move with comfort and balance will take the strain and fatigue out of daily
activities of all sorts. Whether you cut hair, shovel snow, vacuum the house,
lift babies, do carpentry, or repair cars, there are easier ways to move.

Stress & Pain Management: Learning to sense and release
tension in your breathing and muscles will help you relax, reduce stress,
and improve concentration under pressure. It will also help you reduce and
manage the impact of pain.

Computer Safety: Learning to maintain a balanced, relaxed
posture at your computer will help you avoid discomfort and pain in your eyes,
neck, arms, hands, back and legs. You can avoid injuries, improve concentration
and productivity, and save money on medical bills.

Pregnancy: You can avoid the backaches and awkwardness
and reduce the physical and emotional stress and pain that often are part
of pregnancy and delivery. You can actually move comfortably through pregnancy.

Sports & Recreation: In any activity, from golf, tennis,
or bowling, to canoeing, biking, running or weight training, by understanding
your body's natural patterns of coordination and awareness. you can reduce
physical strain and performance anxiety and move with more relaxation, power,
balance and control.

Business & Industry: Body awareness training will help
you manage stress, reduce conflict, and improve communication in every business
situation. It will reduce physical strain and improve safety and productivity
in any movement task.

Music, Dance & Theater: You can reduce physical strain
and performance anxiety and find more relaxed, powerful, sensitive, expressive
and joyful ways of singing, playing an instrument, dancing, or acting.

Assertiveness: By replacing the physical habits of holding
your breath and constricting your posture with a body state of relaxed alertness
and soft strength, you can learn to act with calm, effective determination.

Conflict Resolution & Peacemaking: Body awareness is a
key to resolving conflict and creating harmony. By learning how to reduce
fight-or-flight physical arousal, you can eliminate negative non-verbal signals,
reduce anger, and enable yourself to think and communicate in a calmer, clearer
fashion.

Abuse Recovery: By helping you learn how to feel your body
and your feelings, by helping you find your rightful power, and by helping
you learn to create safe and loving boundaries, body awareness training can
be an effective addition to your ongoing work.

Attention Disorders: By helping people learn physical skills
of self-calming, focusing, and managing frustration, body awareness training
can be an effective addition to other work for individuals with such issues
as attention deficits or Asperger's Syndrome.

Physical Recovery: Body awareness training can help you
improve your skills in relaxation, pain management, body control and movement
coordination. Gentle body awareness learning can help you regain movement
capabilities after physical injuries or illnesses.

Personal Growth: Body awareness training can help you sense
the meaning and roots of complex personal patterns. And somatic self-regulation
can help in such areas as anger management, assertiveness, and self-acceptance.

Spirituality: We are embodied spirits, and whatever else
it may be, the spiritual state of reverence, connection, and awe is a body
state. You can learn to organize your body so that your life is approached
as sacred.

And More: The fundamental principles of awareness and balance
apply to all activities, and I am always fascinated to work with new people
and new activities.

BIM is an educational rather than a medical or psychotherapeutic approach.
It does not diagnose or cure. Rather, it teaches people new resources for
effective action. BIM is often helpful as an adjunct to appropriate treatment,
but BIM is not a replacement for appropriate treatment when that is required.

For greater detail about the applications of BIM, see the books and articles
on the Books & Articles by Paul Linden page.