Using Your Whole Body

I love it when I read stories like this one.

A doctor who wants to solve problems instead of treating them!

Note: While we agree with the good doctor on working with the whole body, we don't buy into the idea that people need to be "fixed" (that would imply that we are somehow "broken"). We do believe everyone can learn to function at a much higher level.

It’s not that he wants to go out of business, I’m sure. He just doesn’t want to keep treating the same folks over and over for the same stuff.

In his viewpoint, the body needs to be in balance.

It’s what we call being integrated.

And you can learn how to be more integrated!

You see, the more integrated you are, the more you are able to utilize your whole self effectively when taking action.

And the more integrated you are in the use of your “self”, the more productive you’ll be.

Let’s expound on what being more integrated means.

When someone performs any given action, all of their body is involved whether they realize it or not.

Any individual muscle fiber either helps with the action or hinders it. The muscle fiber may help by contracting when appropriate or relaxing when appropriate.

Likewise a muscle fiber that contracts or relaxes at the wrong time hinders the action.

The key is to learn how to take action with all of your resources dedicated towards that action – you don’t want to be “fighting” yourself.

Because “fighting” yourself actually creates wear and tear on you joints, tendons, ligaments, bones, and muscles.

Here’s a quick example:

When you are hammering in a nail, does it really help to stick your tongue out and bite on it?

You might argue that it improves your concentration but it actually hinders you and makes the action more difficult to perform.

Why is that?

As you bite on your tongue you contract muscles in your tongue, face, neck and probably shoulder. If all of these areas are locked up, then your arm has to do more in order to supply the force and accuracy needed to drive the nail in.

If you do not bite your tongue, your neck and facial muscles can stay relaxed and your shoulder muscles are available to contribute to the task of driving in the nail.

Quite a simplistic example, but you get the point.

The more integrated you are, the more you learn how to equally distribute your efforts throughout your entire self.

Which enables you to be more effective.

And the more effective you are, the better you’ll perform.

And it’s all about performance.

LET ME ASK YOU THIS…
What do you do that inhibits optimal performance?

LET ME SUGGEST THIS…
Send us an email and let us know what you do to perform better.

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Chad Estes
Movement Specialist
cestes@etmconsultants.com

Welcome to Performance ... Improved

Welcome to the blog of ETM Consultants. We are here in order to provide you with information that will allow your employees to accelerate on the road to performance - improved.

We approach performance improvement though the non-traditional avenue of movement.

Why? Because everything that we do – I mean everything – involves movement.

And when movement becomes refined, ALL of the actions you engage in become refined.

Our unique approach allows us to impact not only productivity, but the quality of that production as well by addressing the most important aspect of business – the human aspect.

Through education and training, the human component of your business will make a quantum leap in their ability to perform. Incredibly effective interventions exist that tap into the inherent capacity of the human brain to change, grow, and create more efficient solutions.

Solutions that will allow you to:

- Enable your employees to miss less work
- Decrease your rate of employee turnover
- Increase your employees’ rate of productivity
- Decrease the number of defects produced
- Decrease your medical, legal, and insurance expenses
- Decrease the number of worker’s compensation claims
- Empower your employees to become responsible for their own health and well being

LET ME ASK YOU THIS…
What are you actively doing with the human component of your business that will enable them to accelerate their productivity….. and increase your bottom line?

LET ME SUGGEST THIS…
For a list called, “9 Reasons Why Performance Improves Through Movement Training”, send us an email, and we’ll send it to you for free.

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Chad Estes
Movement Specialist
cestes@etmconsultants.com