Moving Into Harmony

MOVEMENT & BREATH: HEALTH - FITNESS - WELLNESS

Are you really “too busy” for your own well-being?

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No, but your tell yourself that.

The honest answer that will actually deliver help is to acknowledge – “I am not able to find a way to take care of myself right now.” And saying this with honesty and compassion, rather than from judgement, or shoulds, will potentially lead you in a different direction that actually might stir the hunger for your own value of your own vitality and well-being.

Recent investigations measured the subjects being studied noted that they were thinking about something other than what they were doing……47% of the time……which translates to the subjects not being present to the task at hand 47% of the time…..ALMOST HALF the time…..which translates to half the day is spent not with focus on what one is doing…….NUTS!

So when a vital resource like the breath and how it either serves you and nourishes you, or how it accelerates your unhealthy patterns and diminishes your vitality. If you are unable to attend for moments in your day to what is MOST vital to your health and well-being…..well, you are left with being dictated and overrun by less vital influences and your health will be compromised.

UNLESS you take right action. Bring attention….maybe part of that 47% of the time…….onto the breath and into your body. Then you actually might find access to a resource that truly wants the best for you and your well-being.

Interested?

The truth about your breathing muscle – diaphragm Part 1

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The diaphragm is the most important muscle in our body. We can’t live without it or mechanical means are necessary to keep you alive. And the diaphragm can perform the important respiratory, or breathing, function with our volitional, or conscious, control and non-volitional, unconscious, function (during sleep especially).

The diaphragm is so vital to our health and well-being. Here are some facts to contemplate what it does for you:

  • is the hardest and most enduring muscle in the human body.
  • it acts whether you are paying attention to your breathing or not. In my personal and clinical experience when attention is elsewhere, the breathing habits take over unless they’ve been practiced and cultivated. This article explains the qualities of a healthy breath to support your physical and mental health.
  • contracting and relaxing at least 21,500 times per day (calculated at 15 breaths per minute – bpm’s, not rpm….haaahaaa, so if you breath more, then its more, and more, and more. If you exercise or are under stress, it’s probably 20-30 breaths per minute…yes can be doubled!
  • 5.5 million breaths per year – at least
  • living to be 85…..then you have taken almost half a trillion breaths to support your long life.
  • during it’s action it makes breathing easier, and during it’s relaxation phase it assists in moving air out of the lungs via pressure dynamics. This article explains breathing from a pressure dynamic to help you to understand the harder you work at breathing the more exhausted you will be.
  • it helps support your posture, and is also affected by your posture. It also aides in stabilizing the spine and transferring forces to/from the limbs during all upright activity.
  • it pumps all the major fluids – lymph and venous blood – back to the heart against gravity and when we are sleeping.
  • it generates a motion and pressure, intra-abdominal pressure, that massages the abdominal organs, and contributes greatly to the fluid exchange for the brain, pelvis and legs.
  • and more (this article lays out all the functions that I have learned over the 30 years of study, personal practice and clinical experiences.

Article by Shawn M Flot, MPT. He is an experienced Certified Oxygen Advantage® Instructor. Combined with his 30 years of experience in Exercise Physiology, Physical Therapist for health and performance, and a dedicated Yoga practitioner is making for a power-house to help many people succeed in re-discovering their own health and healing, being optimally fit for their adventures and living well.

Turn Away from the Glitter of the False Promises

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A Poem by my beloved teacher – Jennifer Welwood

Renunciation

I share this poem with great respect. It serves as a invitation to seek good guidance that can show you doorways to your own way to freedom.

There is no person who can promise your challenges will go away, that life will somehow be easier and more comfortable, and definitely not fix your impediments and imbalances. There are no healers to proclaim their capacities to you…..run away, run away, run away (from Monty Python’s The Wholy Grail and the white rabbit). They only steal the power of your own possibilities to discover the true way to freedom. You must carry and put good work into what is yours to work with and available to you. To transform your own burdens requires capacities, and a good guide can point you in the direction from where you might re-discover them.

Give yourself time. Seek guidance before there is urgency, or worse yet…emergency, to shift the trajectory of your current experience. Find the vestige of your own possibilities with the proper guidance. I define my role as fostering independence by offering life-tested practices and methods over the casualty of anyone depending on me for their healing, health and navigating the adventures in your life.

All glitter is not the gold you desire. Your greatest wealth is always there waiting for you…..inside. How you seek and how you discover will lead you to your own given treasures, your capacities in this life to serve your life and others.