Symeon Rodger

 This was AMAZING stuff about how your body and physical health can help your life.  It certainly helped me think differently about what I'm doing and not doing in my life.   If you don't struggle with health issues and have excellent health, you can skip this post.  However, if you want to live a more healthy life

Symeon Martial Arts expert, Chinese health/medicine system, a University in Montreal - teaches in English and French, Author 5 Pillars of Life and Rock Solid Tranquility, proficient in many languages, former intelligence officer in the Canadian Government and Father of three children.

You Wealth – without fundamental wealth within ourselves, the other wealth doesn’t matter – resilience=ability to effortlessly withstand and bounce back from whatever occurs – we need to know how to be aware of our bodies

7 Deadly Spirals of Disease - The body falls apart because aren't exercising our body in the following ways

1. Spine – if you don’t take spine through it’s full range of motion on a regular basis, your mind doesn’t work well and the energy circulation doesn’t work well.

2. Tendon lines are what causes tension and flexion – when I don’t take these through their full range of motion, I’m more likely to get an accident – also atrophy and gain more weight and have less mobility

3. Fascia – layer of tissue below skin – wraps muscles – like body’s saran wrap – begin to fill with fat when not taking care of myself – critical role in assures my posture – crystalline structures respond to energy miridians – conduct light – communicated to cells – diaphragms are fascia – we have 3 – purpose is to hold organs in place – my organs can fall out of place – if fascia degrades, we are more susceptible to disease.

4. Bone marrow- skeleton itself acts as an endocrine gland (metabolizes sugar) – manufactures blood cells – any compromise in quantity or quality of blood cells – less oxygen to cells, can move less, don’t use range of motion, begins a circle – intelligence is throughout body (like in the gut)

5. Joints – energy depends on the health of my joints for its flow – loose oxygen and vitality

6. Breathing – Try breathing with shoulders up and breathe through the chest then try putting my thumb on the navel – let the shoulders relax and breathe near the navel – also focus on breathing front to back like my middle is an inner tube – allows energy to drop lower, makes for more positive emotions

7. Posture – ideal posture: feet to shoulder width, shoulders down, relax abdomen and unlock pelvis and allow it to drop mid-range, imagine my head is hanging by a thread to heaven

Thanx 4 your energy!