Apr

Self-regulation and sugar

At the heart of somatics is the notion of self-regulation. The practice of somatics, of sensing our self internally allows us to use the simple tools of pandiculating, aka somatics exercises to regulate our feelings of well-being.

Some of this is hampered by the accumulation of what we eat or drink.

Our senses can be in disarray, so efforts towards health are like moving 1 step forwards and 2 steps back at times.

Firing on all healthy cylinders may seem like a lot of work with all the seemingly conflicting information, yet once we get back on track… all those efforts pay the dividends of living an easier life internally.

We can see when our functions are deteriorating. We can feel, if we’re lucky enough, to be sensitive to the thing which are amiss. Yet we all have the power to change… we just need some information, helping hands, and actions to get us there.

At sporting events of our children, let alone the ones I still enjoy at age 50, I continue to see how athletes and people wanting to be athletes are moving backwards… though they may think they are doing the right thing.

The drinking of sports fluids filled with sugar to give us energy so we can play and compete may be taking us down a road we don’t need to travel on. I remember as a young athlete filling up my water bottle with sugar and feeling the surge of energy.

So naturally, I added more to supposedly power me… when I ate those cherry colored balls of candy between side changes in tennis, I thought that was giving myself the extra oomph I needed at age 17.

Along the way, I discovered that merely drinking water is about the best sports drink I could have ever had… along with eating healthy… even though there is conflicting information that all of us have to decipher our way through as information changes and is updated.

So back to our senses which can serve us through feedback mechanisms which are subtle at times and yet can be temporarily be altered.

These temporary, yet seemingly ongoing blocks, hindrances, blindspots can be opened through a change in what we know by acting with self-regulation until we discover we may need to tweak ourself again and again and again… which isn’t as hard as it sounds.

Taking one step is a step in a direction which will serve us so we can rest easier when everyone else is worrying about rising health care costs… we can tweak ourself now and not get caught up in that later.

This rather lengthy video maybe an eye opener to parents who let children munch those sugar drinks for a perceived oomph on the competitors.

Regulating sugar intake may not be easy… so please watch this.