Good movement isn’t something that you maintain by moment to moment discipline, by efforts to maintain good movement.\u00a0 That’s no more practical than holding on to “good posture”.\u00a0 Good movement is “good movement memory” — done automatically and fine-tuned by the movements of the moment.<\/p>\n
How do you develop good movement memory?\u00a0 You develop it the same way as you develop any other memory:\u00a0 repeated experience until the memory forms.\u00a0 It’s a temporary discipline.<\/p>\n
It’s also a discipline that few undertake.\u00a0 With movement, as with most other activities, most people stop developing with the minimum learning needed to get by, just as with handwriting, cooking — and walking.<\/p>\n
Next time you’re out in public, watch people walk.\u00a0 How few are a pleasure to watch!\u00a0 Many people lumber; some plod; some bounce; many lean to one side or come down heavier on one side than the other — or come down heavy on each side, as they walk.\u00a0 So many are ungainly — and it isn’t genetic; it’s movement memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Few efforts to improve movement memory work.\u00a0 Most involve stretching and strengthening.\u00a0 Just try stretching or strengthening any other kind of memory and see how far you get, changing it.<\/p>\n
To be fair, let’s look at each:\u00a0 stretching and strengthening.<\/p>\n
Stretching<\/h2>\n\nStretching muscles generally involves pitting one muscle group against another — even the muscles of one person against the muscles of another (as in assisted stretching, massage, or professional adjustments).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThe experience is generally uncomfortable and, if at all successful, is only temporarily so.\u00a0 Old muscular tensions (and posture) reappear in short order.\u00a0 (That’s why there’s a term, “chiropractic lifestyle”.)\u00a0 So, movement memory isn’t changed, but only temporarily overpowered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nNow, apply that to other kinds of memory.\u00a0 Think of an unpleasant memory.\u00a0 I’m not suggesting this to torture you, but to illustrated a point more quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nStretching an unpleasant memory would be like trying to avoid remembering it — or practicing denial.\u00a0 How effective is that?\u00a0 You tend to react the same old way in a similar situation, don’t you.There’s always a strain, isn’t there?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nMovement memory is just that: the memory of the feeling of a movement (how to move) that controls action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nIf you want to change movement memory, you need another approach, one that deals with memory the way memory actually works.\u00a0 I’ll get to that once I’ve dealt with strengthening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Strengthening<\/h2>\n\nStrengthening muscles to improve posture means only one thing:\u00a0 that those muscles aren’t strong enough to\u00a0overpower<\/i>\u00a0their opposing muscle groups, which are always tight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nGenerally, those “weaker” muscles aren’t really weaker, but just tired from working against their opposing muscles.\u00a0 They don’t need strengthening, but\u00a0refreshment<\/i>\u00a0— and that refreshment is possible only when their opposing muscles\u00a0relax from being tight all the time.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAnother effect of muscles being held tight (by movement memory) is that your brain causes their opposing muscles to slacken to allow the tight muscles to cause movement without counter-interference.\u00a0 We feel that slackening as\u00a0weakness<\/i>, but it isn’t weakness; it’s how coordination works.\u00a0 Although strengthening muscles to improve posture may be meant to work against that, it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nBy the way, tight muscles are usually ticklish, sore to pressure, or painful from\u00a0muscle fatigue —<\/i>\u00a0 so, you’ve got painful muscles on one side and “weak” (tired) muscles on the other.\u00a0 Tight muscles drag you out of good posture and that make good posturing tiring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nDo you think you’re going to strengthen muscles to correct your posture and have it stay “corrected” under those conditions?\u00a0 You’ll only make them tighter and sore — and make yourself stiffer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nGood posture is natural only as a\u00a0condition of freely coordinated balance<\/i>, not as a condition of effort (which you can’t maintain under ordinary conditions of life because you can’t continually pay attention, to it).\u00a0 You’ve got\u00a0to free<\/i>\u00a0the tight muscles, not make the tired muscles stronger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nNow, let’s take on memory in terms of strengthening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThat would be like trying to convince yourself that things happened differently than they did, that the old memory wan’t real.\u00a0 That’s known as self-deception.\u00a0 You can work really hard to convince yourself, but how effective is that?\u00a0 You will still tend to have stress and strain in that area of life, won’t you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nSo, we’ve dispensed with stretching and strengthening as approaches to good posture (because they don’t effectively deal with movement memory) and with the standard notion of good posture, itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nWe’re in the home stretch, now (pun unintentional, but recognized!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Improving Movement (“muscle”) Memory<\/h2>\n\nBy, “improving”, I mean “developing a more satisfactory experience of something”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nA more satisfactory experience of movement memory is a more satisfactory experience of movement — both in terms of comfort and in terms of motion or action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThere’s an alternative to stretching or strengthening that’s entirely natural and that everybody’s experienced in a simple form.\u00a0 It involves\u00a0relaxation<\/i>, rather than stretching, and\u00a0refreshment<\/i>, rather than strengthening.\u00a0 It’s called, “pandiculation”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nI’ll let the video tell and show you, about it.\u00a0 Click, below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nIf you want good posture, learn pandiculation to free yourself of muscle tensions that drag you down, out of good posture, and that make good posture tiring.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation to make good posture natural.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation to refresh yourself.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation.<\/p>\n
So, that’s why all notions of good posture are grossly incomplete and obsolete — and what you can do that feels better and works better at making good posture easy and natural.<\/p>\n
Lawrence Gold has practiced clinical somatic education professionally since 1990, with a world-wide clientele composed generally of people needing to get out of pain.\u00a0 All of his clients end up with better posture and movement, along with being pain-free.\u00a0 You can free the tight muscles that drag you down, by yourself, with\u00a0 the general program of\u00a0somatic education (pandiculation) exercises<\/a>\u00a0called,\u00a0The Cat Stretch Exercises (involves neither a cat, nor stretching)<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why are all notions of good posture grossly incomplete and obsolete? They’re incomplete because they apply to a non-moving position — and life is altogether about movement.\u00a0 If it isn’t moving, it’s dead. So, to take “spinal curves”, for example, the lower-back (or lumbar) curve exists to distribute the weights above (chest, shoulders and head) … <\/p>\n
Stretching muscles generally involves pitting one muscle group against another — even the muscles of one person against the muscles of another (as in assisted stretching, massage, or professional adjustments).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The experience is generally uncomfortable and, if at all successful, is only temporarily so.\u00a0 Old muscular tensions (and posture) reappear in short order.\u00a0 (That’s why there’s a term, “chiropractic lifestyle”.)\u00a0 So, movement memory isn’t changed, but only temporarily overpowered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Now, apply that to other kinds of memory.\u00a0 Think of an unpleasant memory.\u00a0 I’m not suggesting this to torture you, but to illustrated a point more quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Stretching an unpleasant memory would be like trying to avoid remembering it — or practicing denial.\u00a0 How effective is that?\u00a0 You tend to react the same old way in a similar situation, don’t you.There’s always a strain, isn’t there?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Movement memory is just that: the memory of the feeling of a movement (how to move) that controls action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
If you want to change movement memory, you need another approach, one that deals with memory the way memory actually works.\u00a0 I’ll get to that once I’ve dealt with strengthening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Strengthening<\/h2>\n\nStrengthening muscles to improve posture means only one thing:\u00a0 that those muscles aren’t strong enough to\u00a0overpower<\/i>\u00a0their opposing muscle groups, which are always tight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nGenerally, those “weaker” muscles aren’t really weaker, but just tired from working against their opposing muscles.\u00a0 They don’t need strengthening, but\u00a0refreshment<\/i>\u00a0— and that refreshment is possible only when their opposing muscles\u00a0relax from being tight all the time.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAnother effect of muscles being held tight (by movement memory) is that your brain causes their opposing muscles to slacken to allow the tight muscles to cause movement without counter-interference.\u00a0 We feel that slackening as\u00a0weakness<\/i>, but it isn’t weakness; it’s how coordination works.\u00a0 Although strengthening muscles to improve posture may be meant to work against that, it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nBy the way, tight muscles are usually ticklish, sore to pressure, or painful from\u00a0muscle fatigue —<\/i>\u00a0 so, you’ve got painful muscles on one side and “weak” (tired) muscles on the other.\u00a0 Tight muscles drag you out of good posture and that make good posturing tiring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nDo you think you’re going to strengthen muscles to correct your posture and have it stay “corrected” under those conditions?\u00a0 You’ll only make them tighter and sore — and make yourself stiffer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nGood posture is natural only as a\u00a0condition of freely coordinated balance<\/i>, not as a condition of effort (which you can’t maintain under ordinary conditions of life because you can’t continually pay attention, to it).\u00a0 You’ve got\u00a0to free<\/i>\u00a0the tight muscles, not make the tired muscles stronger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nNow, let’s take on memory in terms of strengthening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThat would be like trying to convince yourself that things happened differently than they did, that the old memory wan’t real.\u00a0 That’s known as self-deception.\u00a0 You can work really hard to convince yourself, but how effective is that?\u00a0 You will still tend to have stress and strain in that area of life, won’t you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nSo, we’ve dispensed with stretching and strengthening as approaches to good posture (because they don’t effectively deal with movement memory) and with the standard notion of good posture, itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nWe’re in the home stretch, now (pun unintentional, but recognized!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Improving Movement (“muscle”) Memory<\/h2>\n\nBy, “improving”, I mean “developing a more satisfactory experience of something”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nA more satisfactory experience of movement memory is a more satisfactory experience of movement — both in terms of comfort and in terms of motion or action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThere’s an alternative to stretching or strengthening that’s entirely natural and that everybody’s experienced in a simple form.\u00a0 It involves\u00a0relaxation<\/i>, rather than stretching, and\u00a0refreshment<\/i>, rather than strengthening.\u00a0 It’s called, “pandiculation”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nI’ll let the video tell and show you, about it.\u00a0 Click, below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nIf you want good posture, learn pandiculation to free yourself of muscle tensions that drag you down, out of good posture, and that make good posture tiring.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation to make good posture natural.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation to refresh yourself.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation.<\/p>\n
So, that’s why all notions of good posture are grossly incomplete and obsolete — and what you can do that feels better and works better at making good posture easy and natural.<\/p>\n
Lawrence Gold has practiced clinical somatic education professionally since 1990, with a world-wide clientele composed generally of people needing to get out of pain.\u00a0 All of his clients end up with better posture and movement, along with being pain-free.\u00a0 You can free the tight muscles that drag you down, by yourself, with\u00a0 the general program of\u00a0somatic education (pandiculation) exercises<\/a>\u00a0called,\u00a0The Cat Stretch Exercises (involves neither a cat, nor stretching)<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why are all notions of good posture grossly incomplete and obsolete? They’re incomplete because they apply to a non-moving position — and life is altogether about movement.\u00a0 If it isn’t moving, it’s dead. So, to take “spinal curves”, for example, the lower-back (or lumbar) curve exists to distribute the weights above (chest, shoulders and head) … <\/p>\n
Strengthening muscles to improve posture means only one thing:\u00a0 that those muscles aren’t strong enough to\u00a0overpower<\/i>\u00a0their opposing muscle groups, which are always tight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Generally, those “weaker” muscles aren’t really weaker, but just tired from working against their opposing muscles.\u00a0 They don’t need strengthening, but\u00a0refreshment<\/i>\u00a0— and that refreshment is possible only when their opposing muscles\u00a0relax from being tight all the time.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Another effect of muscles being held tight (by movement memory) is that your brain causes their opposing muscles to slacken to allow the tight muscles to cause movement without counter-interference.\u00a0 We feel that slackening as\u00a0weakness<\/i>, but it isn’t weakness; it’s how coordination works.\u00a0 Although strengthening muscles to improve posture may be meant to work against that, it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n By the way, tight muscles are usually ticklish, sore to pressure, or painful from\u00a0muscle fatigue —<\/i>\u00a0 so, you’ve got painful muscles on one side and “weak” (tired) muscles on the other.\u00a0 Tight muscles drag you out of good posture and that make good posturing tiring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Do you think you’re going to strengthen muscles to correct your posture and have it stay “corrected” under those conditions?\u00a0 You’ll only make them tighter and sore — and make yourself stiffer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Good posture is natural only as a\u00a0condition of freely coordinated balance<\/i>, not as a condition of effort (which you can’t maintain under ordinary conditions of life because you can’t continually pay attention, to it).\u00a0 You’ve got\u00a0to free<\/i>\u00a0the tight muscles, not make the tired muscles stronger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Now, let’s take on memory in terms of strengthening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n That would be like trying to convince yourself that things happened differently than they did, that the old memory wan’t real.\u00a0 That’s known as self-deception.\u00a0 You can work really hard to convince yourself, but how effective is that?\u00a0 You will still tend to have stress and strain in that area of life, won’t you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n So, we’ve dispensed with stretching and strengthening as approaches to good posture (because they don’t effectively deal with movement memory) and with the standard notion of good posture, itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We’re in the home stretch, now (pun unintentional, but recognized!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n By, “improving”, I mean “developing a more satisfactory experience of something”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A more satisfactory experience of movement memory is a more satisfactory experience of movement — both in terms of comfort and in terms of motion or action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There’s an alternative to stretching or strengthening that’s entirely natural and that everybody’s experienced in a simple form.\u00a0 It involves\u00a0relaxation<\/i>, rather than stretching, and\u00a0refreshment<\/i>, rather than strengthening.\u00a0 It’s called, “pandiculation”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I’ll let the video tell and show you, about it.\u00a0 Click, below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you want good posture, learn pandiculation to free yourself of muscle tensions that drag you down, out of good posture, and that make good posture tiring.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation to make good posture natural.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation to refresh yourself.\u00a0 Learn pandiculation.<\/p>\n So, that’s why all notions of good posture are grossly incomplete and obsolete — and what you can do that feels better and works better at making good posture easy and natural.<\/p>\n Lawrence Gold has practiced clinical somatic education professionally since 1990, with a world-wide clientele composed generally of people needing to get out of pain.\u00a0 All of his clients end up with better posture and movement, along with being pain-free.\u00a0 You can free the tight muscles that drag you down, by yourself, with\u00a0 the general program of\u00a0somatic education (pandiculation) exercises<\/a>\u00a0called,\u00a0The Cat Stretch Exercises (involves neither a cat, nor stretching)<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why are all notions of good posture grossly incomplete and obsolete? They’re incomplete because they apply to a non-moving position — and life is altogether about movement.\u00a0 If it isn’t moving, it’s dead. So, to take “spinal curves”, for example, the lower-back (or lumbar) curve exists to distribute the weights above (chest, shoulders and head) … <\/p>\nImproving Movement (“muscle”) Memory<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n