{"id":1455,"date":"2012-09-05T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/got-a-limp-not-limp\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T23:51:00","slug":"got-a-limp-not-limp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/got-a-limp-not-limp\/","title":{"rendered":"Got a Limp?  not limp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Well, if ever there was a misnomer, it&#8217;s the word, &#8220;limp&#8221; &#8212; as in &#8220;Got a limp?&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>you know &#8212; a movement impediment<\/p>\n<p>Got a limp?&nbsp; Use a walker or cane?&nbsp; Think it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re aging?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got news for you.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not aging.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the  accumulated stress patterns of a lifetime.&nbsp; You&#8217;re not &#8220;old&#8221;; you&#8217;re in  the grip of your life experience. &nbsp; You&#8217;re tight and it&#8217;s your muscular  tightness that makes you stiff.<\/p>\n<p>The word, &#8220;limp&#8221; is completely wrong.&nbsp; If you have a limp, it&#8217;s not because your muscles are limp, but because they are extraordinarily tight &#8212; not limp &#8212; pulling you down from upright posture and free movement.&nbsp; You&#8217;re not limp; your muscles are not stiff.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries and stress cause people to tighten up.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a nervous reaction below the level of control, one that commonly lasts for decades.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a common feature among the aged and among the not-so-aged. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get right to the point:<\/p>\n<p>Ready to take back your life?<\/p>\n<p>Better start somatic education &#8212; education for the place where so many people are ignorant &#8212; their own bodily existence.&nbsp; Get educated &#8212; not mentally, but bodily.<\/p>\n<p>Extraordinary, isn&#8217;t it, that people &#8212; doctors and therapists included &#8212; are ignorant of their own workings.<\/p>\n<p>Something as simple as a yawn, when applied in novel ways, frees us from the grip of muscular contractions that cause people to limp.&nbsp; Somatic exercises make use of the Whole Body yawn to get people with a limp to straighten up and stand on their own two feet, again.<\/p>\n<p>Two or three practice sessions of somatic exercises &#8212; or one clinical somatic education session &#8212; cause improvements that might take six months of standard therapy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a matter of doing the right thing for your condition.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder where to go from here?<\/p>\n<p>Ask.&nbsp; Click <a href=\"mailto:inquiry@somatics.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nor <a href=\"http:\/\/somatics.com\/aging.htm\" target=\"_blank\">read the article on aging<\/a><br \/>\nor <a href=\"mailto:information@somatics.com\" target=\"_blank\">send for the information packet<\/a> (a lot of information).<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XG-zt34xWYo\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Add your comment &#8212; what you would like to ask or tell.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if ever there was a misnomer, it&#8217;s the word, &#8220;limp&#8221; &#8212; as in &#8220;Got a limp?&#8221; you know &#8212; a movement impediment Got a limp?&nbsp; Use a walker or cane?&nbsp; Think it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re aging? I&#8217;ve got news for you.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not aging.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the accumulated stress patterns of a lifetime.&nbsp; You&#8217;re not &#8220;old&#8221;; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/got-a-limp-not-limp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Got a Limp?  not limp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[854,853,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-aging","category-limping","category-successful-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}