Diversify your Movement Portfolio

Differentiated movement patterns provide a key to unlock yourself from whatever repetitive, compensated motions, exercises or the lack thereof you no longer engage in.

Since no two people have the same structure, let alone movement patterns, history of injuries, etc. we find ourselves subject to the very movement habits we’ve learned and continue to practice.

Without changing those patterns, you can just run yourself into the ground. Running or lifting more, doesn’t do anything to increase the intelligence of your movement. Challenging the diversity in your movement changes the nature of how well you can articulate your joints or move your spine.

Somatic Exercises work with your brain since your brain thrives on novelty. It’s in this novelty that we approach this system of movement with differentiation or diversification of your movement portfolio.

If you think of movement as a system, your brain needs different stimulus until it finally integrates the work or explorations of your movement into a more cohesive movement system.

Somatics moves into the specificity of your motor-sensory system so that you’re able to re-program your capacity and potential to move as effectively as you can.

At some point, you have to create and plan your movements, then you practice until they get stored as learned patterns… so you no longer have to think about it.

Think About this… if we stop playing in this natural realm of evolving our movement patterns, are we bringing the entropy and decline within ourselves at a greater rate? I don’t know but as children no one had to tell us to move. As adults, we are a nation of overweight, couch potatoes ever limiting our movements to a desk, office, room, automobile, sitting in front of a television set for hours at a time.

Your brain is getting wasted in terms of its capacity to grow via the motor-sensory system. You are putting the brakes on your own evolutionary process in terms of the revolutions of your joints, the movement of your muscles, and the usefulness of your bones.

How are you going to improve your movement portfolio?

You can’t get there by sitting there nor can you improve by repeating the same patterns over and over. OK, you could visualize movements or do them incredibly subtlety in the manner of many somatic traditions which focus on sensory awareness.

Each time you have to closely pay attention to your movements with awareness you are engaging the process of voluntary movement which is rather complex, though we may think we move in isolating ways, I beg to differ.

Look at how these muscles are grouped as a system.

This system and the overlapping systems need to used, refreshed, and rested appropriately for long term health. Injuries, the same posturing day in and day out continue to further your decline and decreases the value of your movement portfolio.

You can just keep moving the way you always have or you can pay attention to your movements with a keener awareness which affords you a glimpse into the many different ways you can manipulate yourself. If you don’t , your brain will just check out and leave the possibilities in the dust bin once again, leading to an eroding value in your movement’s funds.

Creating and recreating new neural pathways leads your brain towards health, vibrancy and it’s need to continue to learn. You’ve got 600 muscles which require their use.

Can you do it on your own? Yes, if you’re paying attention as you once did as a child by sensing your movements and being delighted by merely lifting your head off of the floor. It’s a shame and a sham that many adults can no longer even lie on their bellies comfortably for any length of time and just engage the cranium by lifting and lowering it comfortably a few times.

I often hear of the aches and complaints of why I can’t do this or that. After all, lying is nearly the same as standing in its relationship to Gravity. So if you go back to the well, that is on the floor and go back to the natural process, your brain will re-wire, re-adapt itself and you can continue your evolutionary process of well-being… who knows, you may even increase the value of your movement portfolio… otherwise you can remain sedentary, desk-bound, home bound, injury ridden and add to your own decay.

Evolve, Evolve, Evolve otherwise decay

However you can utilize your brain in a conscious differentiated manner so you can move unconsciously with patterns your brain is perfecting and changing…

There’s an obvious choice though many have abdicated at this level of self-care since the models around us seem to indicate we can’t do it for ourselves.

If you diversify your movement portfolio, can you imagine the wealth and vitality you can live with? Somatics, which uses a brain process in which you play with differentiated movement patterns, may be just the thing Fido and other healthy vertebrate animals do every day.

Move Well.