The best physical therapist I've ever had taught me that some of the best stretching can be done before you get out of bed. To accomplish this I taught myself to wake up without an alarm. Just going to bed at the same time every night and getting up at the same time every morning did that trick.
I do not understand why stretching is so natural when I first wake up, but it does feel wonderful. I just lie in bed and let my body do what comes naturally… Yawn and stretch, yawn and stretch.
This ties in with a new physical therapy movement called, "unwinding," in which the therapists leads the client's body into moving how it wants to while the therapist protects and guides. In this way the body can relive and back out of past traumas.
I accompany all this with stretches from the best book I've ever had on stretching called, " Stretching!"
As a side note, I recalled this morning that I heard a very powerful message last week from Carolyn Myss and her DVD called, "Why People Don't Heal And How They Can." It was about people losing their power and consequently becoming ill. I will check this out from the library again, watch it again and write on it separately. It is worth a separate post. As preparation for hearing this message, try this: when you are in social interactions, do not speak of your illness. Instead speak of your accomplishments. It's very difficult to do because we rely on our illnesses to communicate with each other. But accomplishing this is very powerful. You will be surprised how much better you feel when you talk about what you can do instead of making excuses for what you can't do.
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