Ballet: A Beautiful Strength
Now this can be painful, especially when the skin has adhered to the muscles underneath, but the results are such an improvement in mobility that it is worth it.
Take a "pinch" of skin with your fingers, and roll it across the body. If the skin is stuck to the muscles underneath, then it will have been hurting everytime you tried to use those muscles. Essentially, what you are doing here, is separating the skin from the muscle, so that each can do what they are supposed to do without interference from the other.
With scars you will need to "roll" the skin in several directions over the scar to break up the adhesions. This may take several treatments that have to be spread out over several days. Also, you may need to use ice after a treatment, because in essense, you are re-injuring the body, so that it can heal properly.
When this painful course of treatment is complete, the muscles will be firing the way they were intended to. The skin will naturally flow over the muscles, as it was designed to do. With scars, you will also see a reduction is size, and the color will blend in better with the surrounding skin.
One further note I must add, is that this technique is NOT to be done on the face. Loose skin on the face will look saggy, and I'm sure nobody wants that...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014
Myofascial Skin Rolling
Friday, January 24, 2014
Earth Justice Blogs 74
Earth Justice Blogs 74
BP Oil Spill in the Gulf - Developments on Monday 7/12/2010
Administration Tries Again for Gulf Drilling Moratorium
Meet the Moms who will Climb (Mt. Rainier) Against Coal
Virginia Governor Overturns Bottled Water Ban
Earthjustice Sues EPA for Oil Dispersant Safety Information
EPA Double Standard Leaves Communities in the Cold
Reducing Toxic Air Behind Schedule at EPA, Americans at Risk
Oil Stops Flowing into the Gulf
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Classic Soul Music : Gladys Knight and the Pips 1
Classic Soul Music : Gladys Knight and the Pips 1
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia & Neither One of Us
Etta James, Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody Business (live BB King & Friends) [HQ]
Gladys Knight - Please Send Me Someone To Love (live BB King & Friends) [Good Quality]
Gladys Knight The way we were Try to remember, live in Chile, 1979
Gladys Knight performs The Need to Be
Gladys Knight Where Peaceful Waters Flow
Gladys Knight & The Pips - You're Number One (In My Book) (HQ)
End of the Road Medley - Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight - Help Me Make it Through the Night (live 1972)
Gladys knight - I will survive - 1982
Documentaries, Artists, Philosophers, and Scientists 13
Documentaries, Artists, Philosophers, and Scientists 13
Science Digest Permaculture Edition Two
Thelonious Monk – Straight No Chaser
Hubris (Full Film) Iraq War Documentary - Rachel Maddow (02-18-2013)
Science Digest EXTRA Special Edition TWO
New & Old Maps Of Hyperspace (Terence McKenna)
Documentaries, Artists, Philosophers, and Scientists 12
The Mountain Lion
Brahms, Hungarian Dance No. 5
It was in the Winter of 1976, on my hitch hiking journey across America, without any money, and with my long hair. I took the Southern route to avoid getting caught in a snowstorm, and I can't say that I got many rides. Mostly I walked, which is why it took some three months to get from Boston to California.
When I got to Arizona, I was on Route 10, and no one gave me a ride in that state. So I crossed the desert entirely on foot, and quickly figured out that the best thing to do, was to hide from the heat and Sun during the day, and to do the walking at night. It was the morning when I crawled out of my sleeping bag, finding it covered with frost, that convinced me. Later on that day, it must have been around 100 degrees...
If you read Wanderer in the Wasteland by Zane Grey, you'll get a very good idea of what this was like!
One day I came upon a cliff overlooking a deep canyon. There was an updraft of cool air from the bottom, some 400 feet below. So I chose this spot to cool off, and meditate, looking out across the panorama before me. The Earth fashions places like this to give a Message, but it is far too profound to put into words. You simply have to Be there, and then you will know...
I like to sit in Rock posture, rather than Lotus. I find it more comfortable, and it is much easier to stand up when you get out of it. After an hour or two of being in this place which somehow stands out beyond time, I heard a noise behind me. Lifting myself up by my hands, I turned around to see what it was.
Before me there was a Mountain Lion, and she was poised to spring. I knew that if she did that, that we both would have plunged over the cliff to our deaths far below at the bottom of the canyon, because I am not a pacifist, and no one is taking me out, without going with me.
Not having anything like a weapon, besides a Swiss Army knife, I decided to use my brains. Standing up would have provoked the big cat to spring, and I didn't want that. So I raised my hands up, curling the fingers & thumbs into the Mudra of Benediction. Then I chanted, "AUM", with a full, loud, resonant voice. At this the Mountain Lion first registered some concern, thinking perhaps that I wasn't alone out there. Then she sat down on her hind legs, looking directly into my eyes.
We gazed into each other for some five minutes. She saw that I held no fear, and also that I held respect for her as a fellow creature of the Earth. Then she got up and walked away, looking for somebody else to eat. I am glad that the Mountain Lion understood that it is impolite to eat your meditation partner.
I believe that the Native People have a saying : "It is a good day to die, and a good day to live." Fear neither possibility. I'll leave you with that...
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