This is my favorite that you've written so far. I'd love to see more on this subject. And videos would be cool too.
I've been on this subject for a while now, for about a year. I've been both reading in books and studying with my own movement the ways I could improve my muscle functioning and resolve pain as well. It all started with a talk that I had with a massage therapist friend who suffers from Crohn's disease. She told me about the Psoas muscle and all that it's condition can influence. It was really eye opening for me. And after that I began to research on my own, and as you've said, I found various sources who spoke of things like posture improvement from a daily yoga practice.
I do agree that we undervalue stretching in our daily lives. A lot has improved for me in small ways since I've started to think from this angle about the body. I'd love to hear anything you have to share on the subject. I'll try to watch all your videos as I have time.
Thanks for another great post. You definitely crushed it with this one!
I feel like I heal at night, then go back to work and have to heal again the next day... I also learned through pain, so much tension. I've heard the psoas is really important, I should look into it a bit more.
I'll try and get some vids up this weekend, just got a vidcamera to test out dtube.
I think the biggest thing is connecting, which for me means being present. Once you know your body you can push it in ways you wouldn't think to. Like when I'm stretching I find certain stretches difficult or inneffective, but when I engage the opposite muscle, whatever it is, the one that pulls or pushes against the one I need to stretch, then I can really fight myself at the proper level. Like even bobbing up and down two inches can help me open my hips.
I feel like this might be easier to describe in a video, bascially instead of stretching it's exercising the muscles through a full range of motion in a way that forces the muscle to activate
I get what you're saying. That reminds me of when I first learned the best, or proper, way to do a forward bend. I went from tips of fingers dangling to hands flat on the floor with just that simple adjustment. It's mindfulness. And presence, like you've said. I've done some scouring of youtube and have found some really good physical therapists offering advice on this sort of thing. Kinda just trying to heal and help my own body and gathering helpful information from anywhere I can.
Ya, it's crazy how a simple change can help things so much sometimes.
That's the best way!
Yeah, seems to be the case. Doctors are wonderful, but I think we tend to undervalue how much we can do for ourselves. If you ever get seriously sick, you sure can figure that out quickly.
Ya, I think that Doctors are kind of limited in some ways too, they usually have to handle things the same way and don't get to cross train much as far as I can tell. Med school is already pretty long though.
There is so much we can do for ourselves, especially preventative work :)
True, they can only know and do so much. And most handle so many patients. I think that's probably one of the biggest gripes they'd have, if we could speak to them on the issue. Not being able to spend more time with the patients. That's where we have to help ourselves. And preventative, for some reason that's a dirty word. Guess that's where the profit motive comes in, but alas.
Not much money in preventative haha