WELLNESS
Body Communication and Movement By Catherine Bradley, DMH, DMAH, BA
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MOVEMENT IS A VERY IMPORTANT part of our daily lives. Movement is something we need on many levels to provide a sense of well being, health, and happiness. Physically, we need movement to enable mobility. How do you feel when you don’t get up and physically move your body? You begin to feel stiff, sore, easily winded, and sometimes fatigued. This is often felt in the lower body, and in particular the joints-hips, knees, ankles. Just like gears of a clock or the parts of an engine, we need to move those parts or they begin to seize up. Once movement begins, (it sometimes takes a bit for things to run more smoothly and efficiently) that stiffness and uneasiness begins to improve. Exercise is movement, and often what we associate with physical activity. However, exercise does not equate to a gym membership (although it can help engage you.) Exercise means moving, recreationally engaging your body in the rhythm of mental/emotional/spiritual energy that allows your body to communicate with itself to heal, relax, let go and empower. Akin to watching water move, it provides hydration and energy synergistically. The key in the physical realm is mobility. Mobility leads to forward movement in life and in how the body can thrive in health and wellness. Mentally, we need movement to stimulate us. This allows us to intellectualize including philosophizing/theorizing, reasoning, and logically providing us with strategy in our next move. This sets the stage of conceptualizing the movement. It provides the ability to set goals, make plans, and provide a sense of purpose. This is the “thinking” side of the equation. On the “emotional” side of things, we feel. We feel the difference in ourselves when we accomplish movement, making changes, experiencing stimulation and appreciation, engaging in the moment of how we feel when we are delving into passion, creativity and exercise. We feel energized, excited, happy, and the momentum begins to build. We must engage the mind to be stimulated by the changes we make, the things we participate in and how our cellular body communicates within itself to promote healthy cells, blood flow, organ health, glandular health and hydration. The key in the mental/emotional realm is stimulation. Spiritually, we need movement to provide purpose and direction in life. We need connection with self, just as much as with others. When we feel there is no purpose, or lose sight of our direction, enmesh our energy in others, we become sedentary. Importance is to instil creativity. We need creativity as a way of bringing out, sharing from within, a true desire, aspirations, goals and direction with a definitive purpose. For younger folks this could be procreation, but as we age or choose not to conceive children, we must really focus on this component of creation. We are the only species to have the ability to be creative as it is part of our digestion process and our insight. This does not mean we have to take up art classes, more that we participate the creative energy within ourselves—doing without doing. Engage in something that you don’t think about. You just do. It brings joy. It speaks of love. It feels right. It soothes. It makes us feel whole. The key in the spiritual realm is creation. To summarize movement, it is an essential part of the ability to digest; physically, informationally, and energetically. Movement is an important part of our being. The less we move, the more we become sick, sore, fatigued, unmotivated, depressed, miserable and paralyzed. The key is to feel free; engage creatively and physically simultaneously to synchronize balance within our being. For this allows us to achieve true desire, happiness, and it allows our bodies to promote healthy physiological functions and a sense of well being from within. HWS
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