Dooley Noted: 3/13/2015
While teaching Immaculate Dissection today in Sydney, I noticed my own breathing had a truncated exhale.
I had been dealing with some SCM pain, and I asked a beautiful colleague to work on its sore insertion.
That not only made the muscle tighter, but it made my breathing even more labored.
So I decided to stop rubbing it to death and put the focus back where it belonged.
I practiced quiet breathing for five straight minutes. Then I breathed through a few minutes of full
body mobility resets.
Then I exhaled through a straw as I completed 50 pistol squats.
I made the breath the priority with every effort of mobility, stability and strength.
If I lost abdominal stability, I reset myself and repeated the motion.
I coaxed my motor control center to learn the new pattern.
And I wasn’t surprised when my neck felt better by providing stability where it was needed.
I had to walk away from the pain to get relief from it.
You can rub on a tight spot and pray fur it to release -even after it didn’t work the first time.
Or, you can realize it might be doing someone else’s work.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley