Just like flossing your teeth, flossing your joints is vital, if not critical to your well-being.
Since Brain Fitness is all the rage, Joint Health is paramount to moving that brain bucket and your skeleton around in comfort, otherwise, that compensated person you know will slide quickly towards degeneration and decrepitude – ouch.
Are you aware of what to do to promote joint health using yourself effectively? Who else do you know … flosses their joints? Somatic exercises are one avenue…
Much like a car which requires the oil to be changed and the joints to be lubed, your body requires this same type of maintenance so you can remain comfortably mobile and less squeaky and creaky. While you may take certain supplements to augment your health, did you know you can provide the nourishment your joints need by effective movement using your brain as nature intended?
Your joints respond to a great deal of neurological information like relating to the positions of the bones and muscles. The information gets reported along your spinal cord so you can adjust your angle, position, and speed of how you coordinate your joints as you carry yourself.
Your joints sit in a bath of fluid to foster better movement. This affords you the ability to move fluidly in response to danger or bodily threat. 
The integrity of your skeleton is essential to your well being, maybe even more so than all the complications you deal with as you age. Staying alive is one thing but can you move those joints around to get yourself to the fridge comfortably?
The wild animal who has a slow feedback system or a lack of joint integrity may not be able to keep up with the herd and most likely will get picked off along the way. If your joints are in a vulnerable place, then your muscles can contract reflexively to protect you – sometimes a good thing, unless you live in a constant state of protection.
Your joints have to be ready for action when needed and have the intelligence toward integrity. A lack of joint integrity can lead to, compensating patterns of movement with all sorts of lousy outcomes for you.
One of these may be the possibility of a dislocation which actually serves to keep your system going. Your joints will ring the alarm bells and the response to your brain is incredibly fast. Your engine will keep running, though you’re not going anywhere fast … you are still breathing, still alive…
An interesting relationship occurs between your muscles and joints. If your muscles are tuned down, then it’s possible your joints tune up in order to ready the muscles for action.
When you’re bedridden for some time, you’ll notice how your muscles atrophy along with a loss of your flexibility. If your muscles get overworked or get tired, the ability to maintain the joints integrity is compromised.
Instead, well-rested muscles are neurologically intact. These are muscles which release accordingly so the joints are ready for action in a variety of responses.
Did you ever notice when you do some extra vigorous activity, the next day your flexibility can be diminished, unless, you took care of yourself that evening or morning? In other words, did you floss your joints to take care of yourself and ready your muscles for the next day’s work or event?
We often think about our muscles and pay little heed to the joints, until they ache and take you down. Your joints may even tighten to protect you although you feel those sore, overworked muscles. You might think, I should have stretched… but as you know… stretching shortens the muscles, so why do that?
Is the “tightness” you feel something other than short muscles? Is it possible you’re feeling your body’s response to inactivity, over use, and/or possibly weakness?
Strong muscles are not necessarily short as weak muscles are not necessarily long. When your muscles are relaxed they can shorten for the strength output you need. If your muscles remain short all the time you may experience un-desireable consequences.
Weak muscles can shorten and not have the function they normally would have until the neurological signals allow for it.
Well, what can you do about it? How about flossing those joints in a very neurological way? You accomplish this with movements that work with the central nervous system in harmony with the muscular and joint systems.
Your brain can integrate movements through a cortical process which somatic exercises provide. In other words, you’re practicing Brain Fitness. Your results will be an agile body ready to articulate itself with a variety of options thereby giving your joints a well needed maintenance and improvement option.
Somatic exercises are not exercise in the normal sense since these exercises are highly specific to foster the brain’s ability to accurately sense the information and increase the coordination of how we move our joints, muscles and bones so they can all work together cohesively in the field of gravity.
Either gravity works for you or you live with a system of working against gravity and its repercussions.
Central nervous programming, is more important than cardiovascular or strength training according to author Mel Siff of Facts and Fallacies of Fitness.
So if we took a little time to floss our joints via cortical pathways this give you the ability to learn and adapt accordingly… you’ll change yourself towards a more cohesive, better mover, with the natural side-effects of moving and being in less physical pain. The danger signals are now mitigated and will elicit themselves accordingly since now your joints are no longer compromised. You have the function and capacity to get where you want, comfortably… and you’re less likely to be toast on the food chain.
All it takes is a little practice. Heck, as long as you remind the brain within 72 hours, you’ll still have a good chance to continue your progress and keep your brain fit. By practicing a form of brain fitness, you can change the resting levels of your muscles so your joints will delightfully bathe and have the ability to articulate accordingly.
You can always try the somatic exercises and develop this sense of flossing your joints right now, right here.
