Luckily, you can learn this pleasant, calming and useful skill. Through it you can relieve pain and make exercise and daily activity safer, more beneficial and satisfying.So what are some ways you can develop your ability to feel what is right for your own body?
Find smooth and supportive motion. In any movement there is a natural rhythm of extending and compressing. If you are too loose or too tight in any part of the movement sequence you have an imbalance. The good news is that it can be very fun and deeply settling to your nervous system to gently work out the imbalance.
Give up excessive stretching, Some of you may have been born with kind of excess joint flexibility. Also, women just have more flexibility in ligaments than men, specially during pregnancy and menses If you you know you are very flexible or have “hyper-mobility” you need to work with securing the joint rather than extending through it. Securing doesn’t’t mean tightening – it means finding the “just right fit” Just like Goldilocks and her porridge.
Limber up through ordinary everyday movements. Massage, Yoga and bodywork are fantastic tools for wellness how you are moving in everyday ordinary activity makes the biggest impact on your well being.