Dance the Fuzz away
I keep coming across the same video almost every time I do a different course. The video is only 5 mins and it's fascinating to say the least. The presenter is a quirky guy who talks about fascia and why we need to move- using a cadaver just to show you what he's talking about. It's not gross or scary if you want to take a look- here is the link. If not this in essence is what he is saying...
Every night when we go to sleep the interfaces between our muscles grows 'fuzz'. In the morning when we stretch, this fuzz melts. That stiff feeling in the morning is the solidifying of the tissues. Just like a cat stretches every time it awakes from a snooze, so should we. This 'morning stretch' melts that fuzz that is building up throughout the whole of the body.
If we are injured and don't move an area, then last night's fuzz doesn't get melted. And if because of that injury we don't move for a week, fortnight, a month... then the fuzz starts to line up and intertwine. Suddenly we have thicker fibres which now begin to inhibit the movement of that area. It is no longer a question of a morning stretch to ease out the fuzz, but deeper work is needed.
Sometimes we call this ageing, we stop using the full range of motion and walk around stiff, this is our body solidifying and reducing the range of motion in individual areas of our body. Whether it is yoga, massage, structural therapy or physical therapy or any kind of hands on therapy, they introduce manually movement to tissues that have become fuzzed over through lack of movement.
So to conclude - MOVE!
The Fuzz-Free Plan
We need to get our wiggle on.
Here are my suggestions for the next 7 days to get you started:
Every morning whilst still in bed, choose one word from below and see if you can stretch out your body to spell it out.
1. Anti-Fuzz (Let's start easy)
2. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Mary Poppins in case you want a singalong)
3. Nincompoop (the word just makes me laugh)
4. Floccinaucinihilipilification (means the estimation of something as valueless. A bit like the word itself as it’s almost never used except as an example of a long word.)
5. Smellfungus (A new word I discovered and plan on dropping into a conversation asap. It means a habitual fault-finder)
6. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (used in Shakespeare's Loves Labour Lost, meaning the state of being able to achieve honours. It's the longest word featuring alternating consonants and vowels)
7. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (this is second longest word in English - the longest takes 3 hours to pronounce - so goodness know how long to shape out with your body!)
Every afternoon play a different style of music and move, wiggle, jive, jiggle, dance with abandon. (I have created a Spotify playlist of my week's selection of you want to join me)
1. Let's Twist Again Chubby Checker
2. Dancing Queen Abba
3. Single Ladies Beyonce
4.I Can't Get No Satisfaction The Rolling Stones
5. Jailhouse Rock Elvis
6. Happy Pharrell Williams
7. Kiss Prince
'A Sun Salute a day keeps the Fuzz at bay', I am sure I read that in the Vedic texts some where ;)
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