Move Like An Animal: Feel Comfortable, Be Flexible, Move Well for Life in 3 Simple Steps.

When we think of the nervous system revving itself up, we're in what is called the sympathetic state. When we turn things down and return to states of calmness and relaxation; we're in our parasympathetic state. When we live with increasing tension, high stress levels, we tend to feel and process this flow of information as if our motor is "on

Thomas Hanna had a term called sensory-motor amnesia, wherein certain muscles have forgotten to do their job as others have taken over.

We've learned, through neural plasticity, that the brain can change so the muscles which receive information from the brain can also change and be updated, much like a computer which needs software updates to help it run more smoothly and effectively.

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

The alpha system contracts to create the necessary tension to move our bag of bones around. The gamma system gives you the sense of movement.

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.

The animal thing to do, of course, is to wake up the nervous system by pandiculating out the tightness and stiffness which naturally occurs.

When we consciously think about moving a certain part of ourself, we rev up the motor in the brain's cortex. We can use this part of the brain to pay attention to how our motor operates. The sensing part of the brain gets to feel the self-adjustments and the quality of the feel of our movements.

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.