Now that you're aware of more of your body let's get into feeling and exploring your paths of power.
The simplest and most impactful practice and movement with compounding exponential beneficial effect as we move forward will be squeezing your shoulder blades together. To put it simply. Or engaging your back. Simple yes, but like everything else in these lessons, it will continue to grow in depth with context and how it's applied. For now we'll continue just scratching the surface.
Like i mentioned, squeezing your shoulder blades together is one of the most impactful basic motions i will guide you on mastery towards for building a strong and proper foundation. Think of it as the root or core of which all your strength, stability, and balance originates. You'll see why as we go along. For now this is your North Star.
Now i'll walk you through feeling out the limits and walls of your connection to your back. The end goal for now is for you to pay attention to feeling the muscles and strength in your back and how it connects. You will(might) also feel your body adjust naturally. Allow it happen. I will explain later what it signals. For now take a deep breath and let's begin.
First, exhale everything, then inhale and roll your shoulders forward, up, then back. Most likely your shoulders are still in a high position, exhale, pull them down from your back line and bottom of your shoulder blades, until you feel your shoulders come back down to to a even position.
From here, inhale, squeeze the center line of your back and bring your shoulder blades tighter together. Focus on squeezing them as tightly as you can and post attention to what you feel in the muscles in your back. If you don't feel much don't worry, keep doing it, if you feel any pain, take note and keep it up.. If you can't breathe, inhale, then exhale, then inhale again and squeeze more. Keep going until you exhaust yourself.
Once exhausted release yourself, relax, and take note of what you experienced. Was there pain? progress? connection? movement? stiffness? dog your body start moving on its own? If so this is what that's a sign of.
If your body started to move and adjust off its own accord then that means you have connected open paths in your back and as they were sent signals and power through them they were connecting to others further proper channels of power. Think of it as a long water hose coiled up, when water goes through it at a high enough pressure it will inflate to its max capacity and attempt to straighten, returning to its original form.
The same thing is happening in your muscles in your back, and the more open and in obstructed those parts are the more they can return to their original form and open other paths to return them to their original form. However if you felt less of that, that means you don't have a good connection to the middle in your back and those paths of power are closed to you.
The less movement you had on your back during that the less connected you are to that path and the less open they are. What about if you didn't feel anything at all? What if during that exercise you felt nothing in your back and struggles to bring your shoulder blades together? what if it felt like a wall and something was missing. Well then that just means you have no connection to that zone in your back. Which at this point is bad, but it's data, it's awareness, it's s point of reference.
You can build the connection to your back and improve your functionality and ability to feel that area in your back, you will just have to practice that movement over and over again while applying the proper breathing technique. Speak of which, i will dive deeper into mentally what focusing on those void spots and the progression of entry feels like.