Covid -19
Choices beyond pharmaceuticals.
Since the beginning of COVID-19, clients have regularly received visceral work to support their immune systems. The responses have been encouraging.
Example:
Jeff is an automotive mechanic in Reno that I have worked on for over 10 years.
"I work with people individually and within large gatherings, including conventions. Several times over the last few years, others around me have gotten sick while I have not. I credit Taum's work for that.
I now request Taum include what he calls the 'Immune Filter drain' when I have an appointment with him."
The 'Filter Drain' technique is offered within all my Lymphatic series classes.
The next class is on April 28th in Truckee.
The Lauren Berry Method® of Visceral Massage
Class schedules are available in the class section.
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The information surrounding the COVID nineteen virus continues to evolve and confuse. What I'm offering
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here is a series of short videos to build a foundational understanding so that you can contribute to your health by supporting your immune system. In the computer world,
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I've heard a term hacking and to me it implies the ability with knowledge to go into the core elements of a program and improve that program.
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So in a sense, what I'm showing you is information that can enable you to hack your immune system to boost it, to support it, to let it do its work of handling, processing, and protecting you from viruses.
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I hope this information serves you.
Offering a bit of homegrown clarity to the Covid discussion
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Prior to pausing my therapy practice and class schedule
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in March, the topic of compromised immune systems was becoming a growing concern.
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I created this web page to offer a bit of homegrown clarity to the discussion of that concern.
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The following information is influenced by my 40 plus years of studying, practicing, and teaching corrective massage.
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Part of the inspiration for doing this comes from observing a sense of helplessness as one of the unbalanced emotions surrounding COVID 19. Helplessness is an emotion
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I really don't care for, serves no one, and in my world, can be reduced when we empower ourselves with knowledge.
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With that in mind,
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I have produced a video that illustrates a unique viewpoint that provides a simple remedial movement for do it yourselfers to proactively support their immune system.
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The original intention was to support my friends, clients, and students through these troubled times.
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Once I was in the creative process, I realized they might share this with someone who didn't know me or my work.
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That realization inspired me to go into teaching mode.
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I hope this serves to contribute positive clarity into the conversation.
Education regarding the human body has room for improvement.
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Concerning our early education.
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regarding the human body, I occasionally have wondered where would we all be if PE class included information similar what I'm offering here.
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The following is my attempt to illustrate why I think this therapeutic remedial movement has value and may help support and strengthen lymphatic and immune systems.
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My reasoning and opinion include the following. 1, a healthy and balanced digestive system is an essential component in a healthy lymphatic system.
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2, a healthy and balanced lymphatic system is an essential component in a healthy immune system.
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3, a healthy immune system is simply essential.
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4, all 3 require consistent movement patterns that are influenced by their regional muscular state of balance.
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when you encourage balance within your core musculature, you are indirectly supporting your immune system. And 6, a balanced core is fundamentally essential.
Immunity and balance.
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This amazingly efficient, effective, and simple core remedial movement has been an essential component within my massage therapy practice.
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for over 40 years.
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The intentions and benefits include reducing a variety of muscular tensions that can indirectly restrict the ability of the immune system to do its job.
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This unique approach to manual therapy is grounded in centuries old therapeutic traditions that recognize the following principles.
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1, the human body continually strives to repair itself and maintain ease by utilizing its own built in abilities.
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2, when in a state of dis ease, it is presumed this natural ability has been compromised.
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3, this behind the scenes process is greatly influenced by the body state of muscular balance and ease within its core region. 4, our body has over 600 muscles that influence pretty much every process and movement within our body.
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5, by reducing the muscular tensions that hold the body out of balance and encouraging its core towards a state of balanced ease, the body can get back to fixing and maintaining itself.
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And 6, oftentimes, improving balance within any part of the body produces significant benefits throughout the body. For the most favorable results when practicing this remedial movement,
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I suggest that enhancing knowledge, awareness, and understanding will enable educated and responsible choices. Being as this is presented as a self help guide and you are the one making your personal choices,
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we are all better served as informed participants.
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I trust we can agree that the immune, lymphatic, muscular, and nervous systems are beautifully complicated.
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I also believe that most of us take them for granted until they are out of balance.
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What follows are brief and simplified overviews of several of those essential functions that participate within our immune system.
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This knowledge can help to make this remedial movement more practical, beneficial, and productive.
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My intention here is to simplify into an understandable form some of their characteristics and interrelationships.
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It's worth noting that my insights and perceptions in terms of everything continue to evolve.
What is 'Core Balance?'
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Follow along as I connect some dots.
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Let's begin with core balance.
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The term core gets bandied about a bit and is often used within discussions concerning strength, health, movement, and exercise.
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It refers to your abdominal and thoracic region from your hips up to your shoulders.
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When considering this remedial movement, I include what can often and easily be overlooked, the visceral muscles, your organs. It serves us to recognize and respect that your body requires your visceral muscles to be continually moving.
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They all have natural movement patterns that are an essential component in overall health and core balance.
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An example of an imbalance within visceral movement patterns would be constipation.
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In this situation, the word balance is a bit trickier to define. It can be characterized as a state of rest where responsive tensions are at a minimum in all directions. For our purposes
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balance is a bit more complicated as it is considerably influenced by our central nervous systems continuously adapting relationship with gravity.
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Consider, we are all born with 2 built in automatic fears that influence us throughout our entire lives.
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The fear of falling and the fear of sudden loud sounds.
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These 2 fears stand ready to trigger instantaneous physical responses.
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The one pertinent to this discussion is falling. Rather than looking at this through a lens of fear
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I suggest we can all be better served by recognizing and respecting this physical response as a natural response that includes an instantaneous protective reaction.
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This protective reaction is tied to our central nervous system's constant monitoring of our physical relationship with gravity, also known as equilibrium.
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When our built in protective mechanism thinks we are falling, it immediately initiates protective counterbalancing via muscular tension and movement.
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Those protective muscular tensions can remain long after the initial event
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and, this is important, are rarely in a state of balance.
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Those lingering unbalanced tensions can make your central nervous system think you are always off balance and falling.
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These ingredients can combine to continuously trigger your automatic built in reaction, muscle tension.
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This continuous background tension can indirectly compromise, distract, and diminish your body's self healing and maintenance processes, which could include your immune system.
The path from trauma to tension to chronic problems.
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I think we can all agree that balance is important.
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For example, should muscles remain tensed up following trauma on your right side
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this could create what is often called a short leg situation.
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For instance, I have seen demonstrations where students spend a few minutes standing with one shoe off. They quickly feel tilting and tension.
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In this scenario,
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your central nervous system interprets this tilted tension as you falling, and your body will continually activate muscle tension and its confused effort to reestablish equilibrium.
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This perceived falling all the time can generate a degree of perpetual muscle tension.
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This constant background tension can lead to physical adaptations, problems, and pain as the body works overtime in its attempt to protect you. It believes you are always falling.
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Three side notes. 1, the background tension often goes unnoticed.
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We humans are very good at adapting and compensating.
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2, I wonder if this perpetual tension formula is a component in low grade chronic inflammation.
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And 3, I have witnessed this short leg situation brought on as a result of muscular imbalance.
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One commonly suggested temporary solution is to insert a lift in the shoe on the short side. Yoga can also be helpful
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and the remedial movement that follows satisfies a number of my requirements that include ease of use, efficiency, and effectiveness.
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These are no substitutes for a live appointment with your physician or a therapist that knows what they're doing. In our present circumstances,
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this remedial movement comes in a close third. Consider, our body's protective reaction to falling is intended as a temporary response.
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After it turns on that protective muscular tension, it can be slow to calm it down, leaving you stuck in this protective tension.
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This can create continuous background stresses that can physically interfere with portions of your self healing processes.
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This remedial movement helps reduce those stresses by encouraging muscular balance throughout your core.
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A balanced core can function with less background interference and that can enable your lymphatic, digestive, and immune systems to do their job without that resistance.
The primary function of our lymphatic system...
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The primary function of the lymphatic system is to transport lymphatic fluid.
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Our lymphatic fluid interfaces with our interstitial fluid,
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the fluid that saturates cells throughout our body.
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The interchange and relationship between lymphatic and interstitial fluid is a bit complex. For clarity,
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when I mentioned either fluid, I am referring to them
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both. These essential fluids are multitaskers. While delivering nutrition to cells.
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they also clean and rinse those same cells of toxins, waste, and other unwanted materials.
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While our heart serves as the pump to move our blood,
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our lymphatic system utilizes muscular contractions throughout our body for movement.
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The act of breathing is the primary pump that continually moves these fluids and is one of our fundamental core movements.
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This pumping type movement can be compared to squeezing and rinsing out a sponge.
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We expand and contract our chest and fluid moves. Our lungs process the moisture in the air. Breathing helps pump that fluid onward.
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When breathing is sluggish, one of the results can be congestion.
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Our visceral muscles, internal organs, play a primary role in recycling, refreshing and maintaining the health and integrity of our body's fluids.
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All of our fluids eventually pass through here and those visceral muscles also require movement to process those fluids. When our digestive muscles are sluggish,
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one of the indications can be constipation.
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This transportation system includes delivery routes throughout a network of adaptable moving pathways that travel around and through tissues and organs.
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These fluids contribute to the saturation and maintenance of every cell in our body.
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Every cell? Lymphatic fluid also delivers infection fighting white blood cells.
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Those white blood cells contribute to the primary function of our immune system, which is to fight off and protect us from viruses, infections, and foreign invaders.
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This can explain how our lymphatic system plays an essential role in the function of our immune system.
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They work together to protect us. When we support our lymphatic system, we also support our immune system.
Consider our body's amazing hydraulic system... The average human body contains over 30 trillion cells...and each and every one of those cells requires fluids to deliver nutrients and carry away waste. the body's fluid system.
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Consider the following.
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Our body is 60 to 70%
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Fluid Stagnant is not healthy.
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Those fluids move via adaptable inner passageways that require muscular contractions to keep that fluid moving, healthy, and able to do its job.
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Stagnant is not healthy.
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Our body has trillions of cells and each and every one of those cells requires moisture flow for nutrient delivery and moisture flow for waste removal.
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Stagnant is not healthy.
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Our lymphatic system plays a significant role in maintaining that continuous and essential delivery and cleanup process for each and every one of those cells. Stagnant is not healthy.
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At this point,
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I imagine you're beginning to understand how I formed my opinion and point of view that promoting our body's fluid flow has benefits and can be achieved by reducing core muscular tension.
Simplify, clarify, and focus.
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Before moving on to the remedial movement.
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a brief synopsis serves to simplify, clarify, and focus. 1, our body is continuously working on maintaining balance and ease. 2
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our core musculature plays a primary role in that ongoing balancing process.
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3, our digestive, lymphatic, and immune systems have an essential relationship with our core muscular balance.
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And 4, when our core musculature is in a state of balanced ease, our entire body benefits.
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So let's connect the dots.
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We can take an active role in our muscular balance and thus, we can take an active role in supporting our immune system.
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It is worth noting, I started using this remedial movement over 40 years ago as part of my approach to reducing back tension.
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As you may have noticed throughout these videos, my understanding and appreciation for all the small benefits that grow into significant benefits continue to broaden and evolve.
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For example, constipation is an indication of visceral movement restrictions and can be a contributing factor in back pain.
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So encouraging visceral movement can be an important component in reducing back problems.
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I suggest you not allow this remedial movement simplicity to fool you into believing not much is occurring. Consider, there are numerous ongoing processes within your body
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you aren't paying attention to until there is an imbalance.
This is an incredibly healthy 30-second habit.
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The intentions of this remedial movement are to encourage balance and flexibility within your core musculature. Begin by bringing your knees up towards your chest.
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Note the resistive tension in your abdominal area. That tension can evolve. From that position, allow your hips and legs to slowly roll over towards the floor.
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Your opposite arm may be pulled up off the floor, that's fine.
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This is where you meet and begin to reduce your tensions and the benefits start to flow. Allow your shoulder and arm to relax down towards the floor.
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No hurry. Exhale and relax.
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Listen to your tension. Exhale and relax.
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Feel that tension releasing. Exhale and relax that arm and shoulder down towards the floor.
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Pay attention. You might notice more tension release while you are exhaling.
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Thus, you can amplify your tension release by prolonging your exhale. Exhale and relax.
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Even if you do not feel much resistive tension, know that this position creates gentle pressure which encourages lymphatic fluid movement.
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Your positional muscle contractions can be compared to ringing out a towel. While you are relaxing out your tensions, you are also boosting your flow of Interstitial and Lymphatic fluid.
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This remedial movement can reduce tension from your lower back up into your shoulders
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also known as your core. Note where you meet and feel your resistance,
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this will evolve.
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This remedial balancing movement is designed and intended to be performed for both sides.
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The following is an alternative.
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Begin by lying on your side with your knees up, which forms the fetal neutral position.
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One of the reasons this is called the neutral position is it opens up the facet joints so that the vertebrae are less involved
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and the movement can focus on the muscles. Slowly,
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bring your shoulder and arm up and over. Relax and breathe into that position for a minimum of 30 seconds. Exhale and relax. Exhale and relax.
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The most efficient and beneficial usage of my remedial movements has proven to be performing them several times a day, scattered throughout your day, making them part of your day.
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In my opinion, they all qualify as healthy habits and repetitive destressors. Repetitive destressors.
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What a great idea.
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