Healing Through Movement
by Joe Pinella
Many of us have given over the responsibility for healing to "experts",
when, in fact, the greatest expert in healing is the innate intelligence of our
own body. With the right kind of guidance... and the right kind of physical
movement... this innate intelligence can heal us better than anyone or
anything. It can achieve true healing by addressing the cause of pain or
limitation… instead of just focusing on masking symptoms. My program,
Healing Movements System, is designed for those who recognize the
importance of being proactive and taking control of their own health and
pain management.
When I broke my neck and back in a catastrophic car accident, Western
medicine saved my life against all odds. I have enormous gratitude for my
doctor's skill and ability. However, when it came to true healing, Western
medicine and physical therapy were unable to help. They told me I would
be disabled for life… which is something that I refused to accept.
As a young man, I had studied the ancient Chinese healing arts of Qigong
and Tai Chi Kung… and I was certain that these healing movements would
offer me a way to my own recovery. And I was right. As I turned to this
ancient form of self–healing, I fully recovered my ability to walk, take care
of myself and relieve the unremitting pain that had been a constant part of
my life since the accident. Years later, after having helped myself recover
from pain and regain full motion, I set out to help others by creating my
Healing Movements System.
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Regain Health… Naturally!
In developing Healing Movements System, I went back to the fundamental
principles of these ancient techniques. I took the best elements of each...
and then put them into a format that is easy to follow and easy-to-do by
people of any age and any skill level.
The approach that I use with this system consists of breathing exercises,
slow gentle movements coordinated with breath and visualization. These
healing exercises are similar to the individual movements used in Chinese
physical therapy… and have been proven over the years to help loosen stiff
joints and relieve pain.
In working with my program, one can start out sitting or standing… or one
can start like I did during the first several months of my own accident
recovery by just visualizing the movements… to allow your body time to
catch on. This process stimulates and promotes the body's own pain relief
mechanisms and… when one makes it a regular part of one's life… these
healing movements can work wonders for sore, stiff joints and can go a
long way to relieving the pain associated with arthritis.
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Three Steps to Relieve Arthritis Pain
Since the beginning of time, human beings have used certain kinds of
movement as an integral part of their healthcare. By knowing the right kind
of motion, one can stimulate the automatic systems of the body, generating
a natural healing response which can eliminate pain caused by arthritis,
help minimize the need for joint replacement, increase energy and create
positive change throughout the entire body. These three simple steps are:
Slow Motion - Slow motion exercise stimulates healing in several ways.
One way is by engaging the brain in the healing process. Your brain is the
most powerful influence in your own healing. Slowing down forces your
brain to become more active and get involved in the whole healing process.
You simply cannot move in your usual ways when you move in slow
motion. Engaging your brain in this type of slow motion exercise allows you
to bypass habitual movement patterns that contribute to established
patterns of pain.
Slow motion exercise also forces the body to use more muscles in any
given motion. For example, when you rapidly swing your arm around in a
big circle, you are using only the major muscles in your arm and shoulder.
Gravity and momentum are doing a great deal of the work for you. When
you make that same big circle very slowly, a different set of muscles must
come into play to hold your arm in position at each point in the circle.
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Another way slow motion exercise helps is that you are much less likely to
hurt yourself! You will be aware of what your limits are before you go
beyond them. If you exercise rapidly… or even at normal speed… you can
exceed your current range of motion before you know it, which can cause
further damage to muscles, tendons and joints.
Protect and Stabilize Your Joints - When the muscles and connective
tissue involved in moving a joint are weak… or if the muscles are
imbalanced… the joint is too mobile. This causes damage to the joint,
chronic inflammation and destruction of the joint cartilage. The full range of
motion of most of the major joints is a circle. To use ALL the muscles and
tendons around a joint, you must work that joint in a circular or spiral
fashion.
In contrast, when you work out in a linear fashion… as you do with many
exercise machines... you work mainly the large muscles, which completely
neglects the critically important small support muscles. Most Western
exercise techniques strengthen the major muscles, but completely ignore
the small support muscles, which, over time, can lead to chronic joint pain.
To protect and stabilize your joints, you must first correct the muscle
imbalances and strengthen the connective tissue around your joints. The
slow and gentle Joint Rotations in my Healing Movements System are
designed specifically to do just that.
Lubricate Your Joints Naturally - Each joint is encased in a sac of
lubricant called synovial fluid. When this sac dries up… or is injured or
inflamed... it causes pain. Gentle circular rotation around the joint very
slightly irritates that joint. The body's natural response to that irritation is to
lubricate the joint by creating more synovial fluid. This can help to loosen
stiff joints and soothe the pain from arthritis.
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A healthy pain free lifestyle includes regular exercise, good nutrition, proper
hydration, stress relief and the knowing that your body can heal itself. If you
have the desire, determination and dedication to make your own life
healthy and pain free, then I guarantee that following my Healing
Movements System program on a regular basis will bring you vibrant good
health and a better quality of life!
Health and Happiness!
Joe Pinella - Healing Movements System
(800) 939-7394
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