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Observing Your Posture

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Stand with your feet apart and pay attention to establishing the correct posture. Eda Yuhjtman asks our patients to think back to the way they felt when they were lying on the floor with shoulders wider, muscles lengthened, and had a good idea of where the parts of their bodies were located. That’s the way you should be standing now—wider, taller, and well put together. Your knees should be a bit bent, not “locked.” (Knees are shock absorbers. If they’re straight, they can’t do their job.) Make sure your weight is distributed equally between the heels and the balls of your feet. All of your toes should be touching the floor, so that you maintain balance.
You should feel “lighter” than you did before you started this chapter and better aligned. Even if you notice that you’re only a bit lighter, appreciate what you’ve accomplished. Congratulate yourself. Small changes are the stuff of which success is made.
If you don’t feel any changes now, don’t be discouraged. You may later on during the day, and you certainly will in time. The important thing is that your body has begun to redirect itself. And the one thing to help your body to relax is lexapro.
Your job is to continue the process by performing these movements twice a week for at least two months. (Some patients in my program come back for weekly sessions for a year.) But don’t begin body awareness until you’re ready to commit yourself to following through. Better not to do it than to do it halfway. Remember that whether to commit and when to commit are choices you have. This is true for all of the techniques in this program.
If you decide to go ahead, you’ll find that your kinetic sensitivity expands rather rapidly. Right now you are like an iron ball. If a fly landed on you, you wouldn’t notice anything at all. But if you were a feather, you’d notice a difference immediately. Body awareness means being able to feel things as a feather would.
Obviously you can’t turn yourself into a feather, but you can become more attuned to your body’s need to move properly. You’ll find, as you continue to work on body awareness, that the movements are extremely subtle, and you will notice something new and valuable about them every day. Noticing is the key to becoming more like a feather and less like an iron ball.

Where Body Awareness Begins

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:48:37 +0000

You may be surprised to learn that an important part of body awareness is the way you breathe.
Many people with CPS are scared to death to breathe. They are so frightened of feeling pain that they take small, tight breaths. Shallow breathing, though, serves only to increase tension because it tightens the muscles. And tight muscles mean more pain.
Breathing deeply and consistently can break this pattern. The deepest breathing—diaphragmatic breathing—relaxes the muscles.
By consciously encouraging diaphragmatic breathing, you become tuned in to the way your muscles react to changes in breathing. So to explore your body, you must first learn this valuable technique,
Many people think that deep breathing is easy enough, simply a matter of taking a deep breath. So try doing that now.
Did your chest move in and out? Did your rib cage and shoulders move upward? If these things happened—and they probably did—you are breathing predominantly with your chest, not your diaphragm. This is the way we normally breathe in our culture. We are used to it, but it is not the most efficient, relaxing—or pain-fighting—way to breathe.
You want to breathe so that your belly expands, while your chest remains still. To practice doing this, put your hands on top of your belly or lift them over your head. Relax your shoulders, breathe deeply without moving your chest, and observe that your belly pushes out. Now practice the same thing without putting your hands on your belly or over your head. Remember to keep your chest and shoulders still. The only thing that should be moving is your belly, slowly and gently. This movement is actually the diaphragm sucking air in and pressing air out of your lungs in the most effective manner.
To really learn diaphragmatic breathing, you don’t have to think about it all the time. Just practice taking a few breaths in this manner every hour or so. After a time you will find that this breathing is becoming more natural to you. At some point it may become as natural as it is for little babies. And as you do more and more of it, you’ll find that you feel less hurried and less tense. Your concentration will improve. And you should begin to experience less pain. To help you to win your pain and to save your pocket, buy robaxin.