Heads Up on Your Body

Doing Pilates Can Boost Your Business

I firmly believe that doing pilates will boost anyone’s business. Pilates give you a new outlook at customer relations, compassion for customers, and the overall future.

When you do pilates, you learn so much about yourself, how to listen to another person (your teacher), and how to listen to your own body. This “art of listening” does not come naturally to most people- its something that must be experienced before you learn how important it really is to listen to what your gut is telling you, and what someone else is saying.

You might think that you hear your customers, patients, or clients, but until you place yourself in a position of a client, you really can’t know how it feels to be heard, or not heard.

When you start practicing pilates with an instructor, you’ll be able to look at your professional self from a distance, with more clarity. You might realize that you could show more compassion and understanding towards your customers when they ask for your help or opinion- just like your pilates teacher shows you compassion, and just like you learn- through pilates- to show compassion towards yourself.

If your business deals with people learning new skills, practicing pilates will help you understand a student’s perspective. You can practice pilates for a lifetime, and still learn new things every week. Not just new exercises, but new information about your body, new insight, or a new visual cue.

You’ll also learn something that I think is very important- You don’t know everything! You don’t know everything about your body, or about exercise. In pilates, the routine changes slightly week to week, so you don’t even really know exactly what to expect when you walk in.

Pilates is humbling in all the best ways. Its a reminder that we all always have something to learn.

When you embrace new things and check your ego at the door, you open your heart up to great things. Your energy changes, and this change can be felt by those around you. You will have a magnetic personality, an invisible glow that will draw people in.

Not only will your renewed energy draw people towards you, it will also open your eyes and heart towards the future. Pilates reminds you that you really don’t know what’s in store, but you are always up for what’s to come!

You might also be interested in my post, “Exercise = Success”: http://headsuponyourbody.blogspot.com/2008/02/exercise-success.html

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