part two: fighting back
exhausting and damaging to our health and wellbeing. (If you find this cathartic technique
difficult at first, try using lighter weights with faster reps that
force you to lose control of your breathing, allowing you to breathe spontaneously.)
The seated leg press is a superb exercise for really tapping into the
rage trapped beneath our pelvic floor muscles. A good cathartic release
here can leave us momentarily quite 'high' from the energy rush up our
spine from our tailbone. Remember that the deeper and more spontaneous
the sound of effort at the end of each press, the greater the cathartic
release and reopening of these energy gateways. (Try this with your feet
placed wide apart and bring your knees close to your chest to really open
up your sacro-iliac joints for a good release.)
Exercise can lower our blood pressure, strengthen our heart, expand our
lungs and lower our blood cholesterol, but is this really why we exercise,
or is it because of the buzz we get from releasing our power again? Both.
Focussing and connecting with the energy that comes from feeling outraged
and using exercise will leave us feeling energised, empowered, in charge
and alive again.
Look out for next month's article on Releasing the Fear.
Dr Mark Logan is a qualified Wellbeing Consultant
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