Movement is not just for olympic athletes. I’ve had to good fortune to be able to fixed dozens of chronic and acute problems with people’s knees, ankles, neck, wrists, hips, low back, upper back, and shoulders by geeking out on biomechanics.
You may not realize it, but you’re made up of 650+ muscles, that work in conjunction with 200+ bones, all to sustain and locomote an organism, YOU, properly through this dimension. You are more than the sum of your parts. When it comes to the body, just simply having all your parts doesn’t guarantee that you won’t one day injure yourself, or develop some chronic problem in a joint or muscle that eventually some doctor will cut on, into, or prescribe a pill for. I’m here to tell you that taking your biomechanics into your own hands can not only alleviate a lot of chronic and acute symptoms when used properly, but will elevate your awareness and consciousness to boot! Whoa… heavy bro. You want some of what I’m smoking? Okay, here we go.
The body is meant to take an incredible beating and still move on. It’s meant to heal itself through even the worst injuries and continue to house your consciousness. You are meant to move, and anything that tries to stop you only changes how you move, until you don’t anymore.
It would seem that we humans are one of the most incredible movement engines on the planet. Adaptive, creative and efficient. We have the ability to move in a wide range of planes and movement styles. We can locomote ourselves in a multitude of ways, bipedal, handstand walk, hopping, sprinting, bounding, leaping, rolling, crawling, cartwheeling etc… we can hang from objects, swing, kip, spin, rotate etc… and to boot, our fingers can grasp objects to operate for any task we can think of. Generally we find most animals move one or two ways really well, but not humans. We’ve been gifted with the ability to apply all facets of our intellect to our movement.
Our greater intellect doesn’t make us a more advanced species, it makes us better movers. In our greater capacity for movement, we're able to apply creativity to our bodily expression. Long ago this gave us adaptive movement patterns during the hunt, or discovering a tool that could aid the body in a task. From tools came structures; from structures came villages, from villages came society as we know it. But all that originally came from moving well.
This is how we came to be; movement. Movement was our expression, our tool, our intelligence and our way of life. Our minds were built around movement. Not just a small piece but the entirety of your mind is built for movement. All your senses, your emotions, thoughts, creativity, personality and even spiritual paradigm contribute to how you move. Even though we don’t move very well in today’s society, that doesn’t mean your DNA isn’t yearning for fluidity and motion. It is.
Everything that ails you, it seems, can be alleviated through movement. Every day a new research article is coming out talking about the benefits of exercise on things like diseases, viruses, sickness, even injury. Yes, even injury is now healed through movement. Ice is becoming a thing of the past; just move.
That’s why it’s very important to honor where we came from through fitness, and to do so intelligently, not mindlessly. We need to apply our intellect again to our movement every moment of every day. The gym isn’t the place to move, you’re moving right now! Not moving well doesn't mean you're not intelligent, but it takes intellect to move well. Like any other discerning endeavour we have to apply intelligence to movement in order to succeed. Movement is the discipline that all other things arise from. Give over to movement and understand that the answers DO lie within yourself, and taking time to understand your own biomechanics can feed your soul and help you live a better life.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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