Alright, I have 15 minutes before my
class starts again. I would like to explain a very incredible concept
to you, simply because it is too amazing to not share.
Within the human body there is a
natural mechanism that allows disturbed tissues to reset themselves.
There are three stages these tissues have to go through in order to
get back to normal: a balance point, a still point and
the release. I want to demonstrate this through an
illustration.
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| Tell me there hasn't been one time in your life when you feel like this.... |
Imagine a rope, stretched across two
pillars. You are about to step out onto it, and walk to a point in
the middle. You are a tightrope walking acrobat and are about to
perform a flip. There comes a point where you stop on the rope, and
sway. Forward. Backward. Right. Left. You are trying to find a
balance point, that singular
place where you can hold a position without tension pulling you one
way over another. Once you've found your balance, you hold, perfectly
still. Seemingly no
movement. When in fact you are moving a lot! You're just moving
against every force so that you appear motionless. You are simply
building energy. You let it build, and build, and build till you
crouch, and release
the energy into the jump.
Now imagine you're
muscles doing the same thing. When you engage a muscle to a certain
point of tension it will start moving and wriggling beneath your
grasp, searching for the balance. Once it finds that point everything
will “stop”, but you can feel the energy within the tissue
mounting. The muscle will give a final pull in, then melt into the
release.
Understand this
principle, and you can understand the first step in osteopathy. (If you don't understand, that's ok too haha)
So cool!
~SilverPheonix
