Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.
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Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.
Anytime you feel it is necessary to reset your body, by all means do so. Remember, healthy animals reset 40 - 50 times per day. It’s no wonder they move so incredibly well.
Edward Barrera • Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.
If you catch yourself breath holding, notice what happens as you hold your breath. Is the movement easier or more difficult?
Edward Barrera • Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.
When we reset our own tension levels, the muscles feel softer and more comfortable. Those bones which are being pulled into a certain position can now shift out of a held compensation program. The very pain we were sensing or feeling begins to soften away.
Edward Barrera • Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.
If you find yourself sitting or feeling slumped, instead of trying to straighten yourself up, you’d begin by slumping yourself more. This turns on more of what your body is currently doing. Then you can allow yourself to release out of the slump so you can more easily sit upright without trying to hold yourself upright. Once again, this is reverse
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Remember if you don’t feel or sense the connections, it just means the lines of communication aren’t clear. With your intention to move, eventually the weeds clear out and the lines of information become clearer.
Edward Barrera • Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.
Curl into yourself, squinting the eyes, tightening the jaw, raising the shoulders, arms bending in, wrists flexing, hands curling in, belly tightening, pelvis rolling back as the chest wall sinks downwards. Undo: Release the feelings and tension pattern you created. Feeling: How smooth can you release all the conscious tension patterns you created?
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The range of motion isn’t as important as the quality and your ability to move freely and comfortably in whichever range you have control. Given
Edward Barrera • Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.
Thomas Hanna had a term called sensory-motor amnesia, wherein certain muscles have forgotten to do their job as others have taken over.
Edward Barrera • Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.
The sub-cortical areas of the brain are the places where our learned programs reside. This is so we can move without thinking about every step. When we adapt and learn something new, we shift into another part of our brain, the cortex.