Just Breathe

The breath is so important.  Breathing, really breathing  in from the top of your head to your tailbone and even to the bottoms of your feet.  Breathing oxygen into your system keeps it alive.  Breathing out moves the co2 from the body.  In between the process of breathing in and breathing out, many things happen. 

It is important to breath in of course and equally important to breathe out.  Don’t hold your breath.  Deep breathing, whole system sustained breathing, carries a wealth of benefits.

Breathing is important in meditation.  Breathe in love. Breathe out hate.  Breathe in peace. Breathe out chaos.  Breathe in energy.  Breathe out tension.  What if however, this process is hindered?  

When I work on the breath of my clients, I help the tissues in their ribs, diaphragm and back  expand.  ‘Opening the breath’ means opening the thoracic area to enable the mechanism of breathing to occur.  It is difficult to breathe deeply if your body isn’t capable of expanding in order to do so.  Once this expansion occurs, breathing becomes easier and depth of breath occurs.  Breathing down into your sacrum resets your system.  You are able to and are allowing your body to breathe.  Taking breath in so the oxygen and co2 can work together before breathing out.

Here is an article:  https://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/does-co2-trigger-the-breathing-process/

Leaf on my Windshield

Driving around the other day I heard this loud pittering sound, like something… say under the hood of my car …was messed up.  It scares me to think anything is wrong with my car.

I arrived at my destination to see what it could be.  I looked at the fender which I thought could be an issue (it was before). 

Then I saw this leaf barely attached to the windshield wiper.  I took this photo then took the leaf off.  When I got back into my car and started it…..the sound was gone!

The moral of this story is that it doesn’t take too much of a deviation, of a disruption, to cause a profound effect in something else.  A little leaf, loosely hanging onto a windshield wiper, causing enough of a noise, a disruption as to make me think something was dreadfully wrong.  

So it is with our bodies.  We are not that big!  It does not take some enormous ‘thing’ to begin the compensation process in our bodies.  That compensation expands and becomes a bigger issue over time.  However, once it is removed, there can be calm in the body and mind and spirit.

Compensation and Balance

Recent experience has again shown me the benefits in keeping yourself balanced if you have been injured and if you can, to begin that process sooner rather than not.

Otherwise compensation sets in.

We need to work not only the problem points but connecting the
areas so they can all work together…

Connections.

Like a sail boat: sail, gunwales, lines, etc. need to be functioning on their own with all the parts working together … so to begin the next adventure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patterns of Movement

Patterns of movement
in an individual,
reinforce chronic
discomforts and
limitations.

Structural Integration
begins to free those restrictions which allow the body to lengthen and become more fluid in movement.

Ida P. Rolf

Reorganizing the Scapula

…Lack of tone in the rhomboids also allows the scapulae to wander too far from the vertebral column; the bones are no longer flat—they “wing” out.

Lack of tone in the rhomboids also allows the scapulae to wander too far from the vertebral column; the bones are no longer flat—they “wing” out. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The practitioner in Structural Integration accomplishes this by manually restraining the muscle, bringing it toward its “normal” position and then demanding specific directional movement of the part. Suddenly, the restricted joint moves; it moves more normally. The constituent myofascia is permanently in a new position, nearer that demanded by pattern.”

From Ida P. Rolf

 

Circles

Everything works in a circular pattern. Nature works in a circular pattern, curved patterns, spirals, not straight lines. The old adage about running around in circles… 

So too circular thinking.  It brings the thought continually before you and builds on that momentum by the continuation of that thought.

Until it turns to action and a completion of that thought.

 

 

 

 

On Neuroplasticity — THE BRAIN IS A WONDERFUL THING

Scientists used to believe that the brain stopped developing once humans reached adulthood. 

Advances in medical imaging technologies, however, have discredited this understanding of the brain, which we now recognize as an extraordinarily dynamic organ that continues to develop in response to environmental stimuli throughout our lives. This phenomenon is known as neuroplasticity.

 

Neuroplasticity allows our brains to continuously change and adapt, forging new neural connections as needed, and abandoning pathways we no longer use. 

Neuroplasticity makes it possible for the brain to cope with dramatic environmental changes, like traumatic injury, as healthy nerve cells seek out connections with each other to compensate for damage and restore function.(alta mira)

The body wants to belong. It seeks to connect with other areas of itself to help those that are not functioning as well.  It seeks to connect to compensate for damage and restore function.  So does the brain.neruo for blog

Advanced Rolf Practitioner / Structural Integration