It’s funny how something like ambient air temperature can ignite a movement pattern that may not be so\u00a0useful.\u00a0 In the cold it’s natural to\u00a0tuck your chin down into the collar of your coat, breathe a little more shallowly to avoid taking in a big gulp of cold air, tighten your body in certain places to keep the draft from blowing up under your winter parka, or holding your arms into your sides a little more tightly to keep the warmth of your arm pits protected from escaping.\u00a0 We all do our own thing to\u00a0preserve those things we want to protect, in this case body temperature.\u00a0 Sometimes those habits get put into motion through very well established pathways in the brain at times when they are not so\u00a0helpful.\u00a0 Say you are outside walking the dog\u00a0in the cold wintery air.\u00a0 You slip a little on the ice.\u00a0 Your arms reflexively reach out\u00a0from your sides\u00a0in at attempt to preserve your balance,\u00a0 But, unfortunately you have the “arms held slightly close to the body,” habit in action because it’s blasted cold outside.\u00a0 Unfortunately, those\u00a0two actions don’t work so well together.\u00a0 It’s possible that your arm reaches out but your shoulder blades\u00a0are still held in tightly and it results in a rather painful\u00a0rotator cuff (shoulder\u00a0joint tendon group) impingement situation.\u00a0 Contradictory actions do that sort of thing………….produce pain, tightness, stiffness.\u00a0 These are natural processes in conflict that we are unaware of.\u00a0\u00a0By increasing\u00a0sensory awareness of this type of thing we can prevent the conflict and allow the shoulder blade and the arm to act efficiently together, both reaching out together\u00a0in a coordinated manner.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Feldenkrais Method helps us unravel our sensory potential to allow us greater freedom to act in the world more efficiently,\u00a0and often with less pain, discomfort, and injury!\u00a0 Woo Hoo!\u00a0We can all use a little less of that!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s funny how something like ambient air temperature can ignite a movement pattern that may not be so\u00a0useful.\u00a0 In the cold it’s natural to\u00a0tuck your chin down into the collar of your coat, breathe a little more shallowly to avoid taking in a big gulp of cold air, tighten your body in certain places to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fmb4-t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}