Novel somatics exercises help you reduce your muscle stiffness the way nature intended. In nature, all healthy vertebrate animals use the process of a pandiculation to get their muscles loose and ready for the day.
As we age, most of us have forgotten this lost art of pandiculating. In fact, we all did it in our mother’s womb. If you’ve forgotten how to pandiculate, then it’s likely your muscles are getting stiffer as you age. You don’t feel as spry as you used to.
You can change all of that in an instant since this is a cortical brain response. Your brain is waiting for you to pandiculate so it can send the necessary chemicals of relaxation to the areas you target with your intention.
Brain plasticity or the ability to change your brain allows you to change the feelings of your muscles from stiffness to mobility. When you’re more mobile, you’re less likely to hold your stress… and you’ll be able to sleep even better.
Give these somatics exercises for your neck and shoulders a try and feel for yourself what all the healthy animals already know.
