12/02/2024
Times like today are optimal for sitting at a computer or on your smartphone and potentially saving money as you think about the loved ones on your holiday list. Cyber means of or relating to computers.
Technology is there to enhance, or bring greater ease to a task -- like shopping!
But you know what technology does not (generally) help with?
Our mobility. Many of us who have had desk jobs understand the challenges of keeping our bodies healthy while working long hours on a computer.
'Heard the expression: If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Well if you sit for long periods (or stand), you'll promote getting stiffer in your hip joints and spine as you do so.
I worked with a client once who had a lot of body aggravations: a sore hip, a painful shoulder, neck tension--just general discomfort. She had been a remote virtual worker for years.
When she became a client, we designed movement sequences for her to do in 5 and 10 minute intervals. She would do some before her day began, and every break included some strategic movement, (strategic being the key word here.) Transitions to the bathroom were also taken advantage of to assure that she was getting circulation and mobility to joints that had been still. So movement, specific, prescribed, intelligent movement, became part of her day.
Then she'd attend classes once or twice per week to give attention to the whole body and retrain it for better function and posture overall.
If you want your mobility to stay with you as you age, you must give it attention and care. To stay mobile over time you have to be mobile, or get more mobile now. That way, as you treat your body to an intelligent practice of well rounded movement, you are increasing your chances of having a moveable body in the future.
