Sharon Friedman – Vigilance and Tranquility

Sitting or standing, shake your hands for a while and than relax them and breathe. Feel the blood flowing through the hand and filling it. Once your hands feel heavy go up the arm and once the arm is heavy, lift it overhead without raising the shoulder to keep the movement economical and free and repeat. You can do the same with variation with the feet and once this is done go over the body with your hands. Massage the hands and move the fingers around. Move the bones too and gently and see where you can apply levers and release tension. If you know how to relax and cause relaxation you can do the opposite as well. Now go up the arm and feel how the bones and joints of the forearm are set to facilitate motion and stability. Push your fingers into the tissue and be miondful that if you are tense you will hurt from this. Tense and apply a lever of press and relax and do the same.You can also open and close the fingers by pressing on the tendoms and muscles of the forearm. This as all principles apply to all if you are willing to experiment.

Now go to the body: Press and rotate and use both arms to twist the body while relaxed and while tensed. See if the bone structure aid you in your manupulation and if you can use point as pivots and so on. For example if you put your fingers in the hollow of the clavicle bones, it is easy to affect blood flow up and body movement. Don’t neglect your back and see how you can reach it all. You can for example put one hand at the back and the other pulling on that elbow to increase your reach. The same can be do if you ar in a lever of static lock that you cannot think of manuvaring out. Take the fixed arm for example and use it as a part of your lever. Act rather than react to pain and self pity. 

For the legs you can obviously do the same and enjoy tumbling a little if you try this standing up 🙂 Try also to use the rest of the body in this. Create a lever of foot on knee or ankle on anke and so on. You can use the body to create a block for the arm and apply what you wish on the rest of the arm (we usually think once there is no movement that we cannot move and you can apply this in training and in life and help others gain more freedom by example and self study)   And enjoy the weekend.