Fear of falling

Fear of falling 

We are born with a fear of falling, which protects us but also significantly impedes our ease of movement.
Standing and walking, our centre of gravity is high and is located in the navel area, which contributes to ease of walking on the one hand, but on the other hand, one is continuously vigilant not to fall. Fear of falling is innate but also gets reinforcement by the environment.
I remember running down a slope and my mother shouting behind me, 'If you run down the slope, you'll fall!' How much fear in such a statement!
With age and loss of flexibility, the fear of falling increases. And with it grows a process of avoiding movements that change the centre of the gravity, such as avoiding bending, sitting on low surfaces, preferring an elevator over stairs, and more. Failure to shift the centre of gravity at ease creates stiffness, clumsiness, and imbalance.

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We are designed to live in motion. Our movements are complex, and most are controlled by unconscious mechanisms and patterns.  Our bodies can develop ineffective and harmful movements and posture habits, and there would be no automatic faculty to take notice and correct them.

Most of us go through our days in an unconscious bodily manner, with our heads full of random thoughts. The body and mind are not at the same time and place, and their existence is separate.

A state of unconscious presence in the body may cause suffering. A lack of physical awareness may develop problems of posture and movement, followed by aches and pains.

Unconscious posture and movement, guided only by habits, is a basis of suffering.

Fascia release

Our body is like a library that stores the memory of our life events, both physically and psychologically.

When provided with the right conditions, it has an inbuilt corrective mechanism to realign itself, release its traumatic contents and correct bad habits of use.

As you give the body space and attention to free itself from restrictions, it unwinds, moves spontaneously, finds its limits and releases.

Fascia Release is an instrumental technique to assist this inbuilt mechanism to express itself.