Erros Chiodo

02/05/2024

11/12/2023

Hello instagram friends and family. The local council from where my brother lives wants to forcefully obtain his house for demolition which would force him and his family to move. If you could sign this petition to help save his house that would mean a lot to us 🙏

petition link on my profile page

11/12/2023

Hello instagram friends and family. The local council from where my brother lives wants to forcefully obtain his house for demolition which would force him and his family to move. If you could sign this petition to help save his house that would mean a lot to us 🙏

petition ...
https://www.change.org/p/save-ekin-road-fix-the-flats-and-hands-off-the-houses

08/03/2023

1 - Get enough sleep If sleep were a drug it would be illegal! Sleep is the most powerful asset we have when it comes to preventing burnout. Whilst sleeping more is a very obvious solution, it is something that many people struggle with.

01/12/2022

MOVING THROUGH THE DARKNESS

In the dark, alone and painful moments it's common to feel lost and unsupported. To fall back into old patterns of thought and behaviour. Seeking relief through external validation and distraction.

Try this out-
The next time you find yourself in that place, (for instance just before you reach out for your phone for some mindless instagram scrolling) stand up and walk out of the house and complete a 15 minute walk placing your awareness on the uncomfortable feelings and body sensations that lead towards distracting yourself.

Every time you do this you are literally rewiring your brain and transforming your physiology and sense of self on the deepest level.

DM and let me know how it goes 😊

28/05/2020

Im proud to annouce that I will be a one of the teachers in the Digital Dance Academy. There will be an online portal where a number of my movement based classes will be featured.

The launch is coming soon. DM me if you would like any further info 😁

28/05/2020

CHANGING EMOTIONAL PATTERNS

Yesterday I talked about the process of changing your physical patterns. That how we move is the product of our past experiences and environment we have lived in.

On an emotional and behavioural level there is really no difference between the physical and psychological development process. Many of our thoughts and feelings tend to be an adaptation to the stress of the environment we grew up in. Survival is the primary instinct for humans, especially as infants when we are completely dependent on our parents. Love and attention are akin to food and shelter for a baby, so acting and behaving in a way that allows us to receive this is vital.

In this way we learn from very early on what we need to do or 'who' we need to be in order to get love and attention. The emotional responses to events we experienced in our childhood become so locked in that we actually believe those feelings are who we are. The problem is that when we grow into fully formed adults we still carry with us the unmet needs from our childhood and so project them into the world. We seek out what we didn't get as children, so someone who was ignored as a child may become super obsessed with how they look in an attempt to get this attention and validation from the external world.

When potential personal training clients come to me with predominantly aesthetic physique goals, I like to to dive deeper into their motivation behind that. Asking questions like, 'what's important about having a good body?, 'Why is it important what other people think of you?'

I have been there myself, as a bodybuilder dedicating my whole life into looking a certain way. Whilst I learnt a lot about the discipline and hard work required for building a physique, it never addressed the underlying emotional issues that I was carrying.

The solution

The solution starts with awareness, becoming aware of these emotional patterns that you have been acting on your entire life. Meditation practice, therapy or psychedelic plant medicines are all tools to connect to these past traumas. Seeing how emotional and behavioural programs got set into your being. Accepting all your feelings and emotions and finding a way to express them is a path to optimal emotional health and well being. Journalling is something that has helped me immensely, I have found the act of writing out my feelings very cathartic.

At the end of the day if we can learn to love and accept all the feelings we have, we go a long way into being our true selves. There are no 'wrong' feelings, and the rejection of any part of ourselves leads to unnecessary pain and suffering. The journey of spiritual growth and development can be an uncomfortable and messy one but ultimately nothing provides you with more love, joy, peace and happiness.

Sending you all love

Erros

27/05/2020

CHANGING OLD PATTERNS

The idea of changing old patterns goes to the very core of your being.
We can look at this from 2 different perspectives, the physical and the emotional but first we will focus on the physical.

All of the movement patterns we carry out on a daily basis are a product of our past experience and what we have learnt. From birth we observe the adults around us in order to learn how to move and coordinate our bodies. Through unconscious learning we inherit the motor patterns and physical postures of our parents. Once this programming commences, these patterns or 'programs' get hardwired into our nervous system and become the 'natural' and 'normal' way we move through the world. Of course if these are dysfunctional patterns we adopt them all the same, not consciously knowing any other way of moving our bodies. Add to this any physical traumas or injuries we have accumulated and we end up using a whole set of compensatory patterns in order to get through life.

How to change it?

There are many systems of movement, body work and awareness practices that aim at rewiring and letting go of old patterns. As Yoda says 'First you must unlearn what you have learnt'. This is why performing heavy weightlifting without addressing the underlying dysfunctions of your body leads to further injury and problems. Having said that, weight lifting and resistance training can also have a healing affect on the body when done in right way. It requires the awareness to let go of your ego around getting 'stronger' and over emphasis on how you look. A shift to feeling all the interconnections of the body and how the joints relate to one another is also vital for this change. Some of the movement systems geared towards this are; Tai Chi, Yoga, Pilates and all the varieties of internal martial arts.

It is the not the movement system that is important but the intention, mindset and motivations you bring to it. The willingness to feel and go into the weak links of your body will drastically shift it and make you stronger. It may seem like a slow and arduous process where you have to take many steps back in order to go forward, but ultimately it is worth it. This approach completely changed and transformed my body and mind. I am pain free with an ease and flow to my movement that I never thought possible.

Tomorrow I will talk about emotional and mental patterns and ways to change them.

Erros