Gluing Together Your Balance
Are You Concerned about Worsening Balance???
Your Likely Problem is Your Balance is BECOMING UNGLUED!!!
Improving Your Balance is a Process of Gluing it Back Together!!
ON BALANCE:
Our Nervous System (brain, spinal cord and peripheral connections to muscles, organs, and skin) is basically composed of 2 connecting halves:
1) The “Efferent” Motor Half Commands Organ, Gland, and Muscle Action
2) The “Afferent” Sensory Half Detects and Feeds Crucial INTEL from Skin, Muscle and Organs from the world around us, informing the Efferent Half … ***(Read more on the concept of Efferent/Afferent Nerves at http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3197)
NO FUNCTION DISPLAYS THE GLUED TOGETHER NATURE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM MORE THAN THE ACT OF BALANCING …Afferent data from the periphery informs the brain of our surroundings (rocky, slippery, hot, etc).
…Efferent Command refines stabilizing reaction accordingly, creating new sensation in an ongoing instantaneous cycle – THIS IS BALANCE. >>>
GLASS ½ Empty
Typically, when we try to stand on 1 Foot, we command our Leg: Stand on 1 Foot!
This Game Plan Leaves ½ of our Nervous System on the Sideline!!!
2 Halves Better Than 1!!
In The Ranks, we Glue the Nervous System Back Together in Balance Training by SEQUENCING Specialized Deep Tissue Work (Such As Calf Deep Tissue – See PowerWire #’s 39, 38) just before Performing any Balancing Drill!!
a) The Deep Tissue Work Reinforces to the Brain where the Muscle Is (Nourishing our Afferentl Nervous System) ***(We Call Self-Applied Deep Tissue Work in The Ranks, “The Gluing Energy Process” Because it frees muscles AS WELL AS organizes our Brain’s critical Inner Map of Our self - Keeping OUR BODY-MIND GLUED TOGETHER!!)
b) The fresh memory of the FEEL of the deep tissue work allowsThe Brain to Now Clearly Zero In on The Muscle Needed for Specific Action (Efferent Action)
Better Balance is born of getting both Halves of the Nervous System Working Together!!
The costs of IMBALANCE – both within and without – are INJURY AND PAIN… Better Balance emerges when both Halves of the Nervous System Work Together in Balance Again!!
Get Your Balancing Act Together This Fall!!
– Look for The RanksAcademy “Balance and Posture Fest” in Dedham, MA & Put Your Best 1-Foot Forward!!!