Notes from the field:
at Le Gourmand, after an appointment at Adelaide West Physiotherapy
There are different types of intelligence. Being the Grinnellian that I am, I've spent most of my life using my smarts-- the brain realm, I suppose. It's only now that I've started exploring my body intelligence, and I feel like a child. I didn't know these parts of my body! When I lean this way, that part of me leans that-a-way. How fascinating! I still don't know what I can do.. or what my body takes.
I just left the physio and learned quite a bit about the two halves of my body. We focused mainly on my right shoulder and mid-back, using the left side as a control. I didn't realize how contorted I am, and how weak. My right shoulder is pushed forward, and the entire right side of my back is overcompensating to keep me in line. Poor little back! I had no idea.
I'm trying to listen to what my body is saying, but to me it is completely foreign. The language and ways of understanding in this medium are completely different than to what I've become accustomed. Fortunately, I've always loved language. Hopefully, I'm as quick a study with this as with spoken language.
at Le Gourmand, after an appointment at Adelaide West Physiotherapy
There are different types of intelligence. Being the Grinnellian that I am, I've spent most of my life using my smarts-- the brain realm, I suppose. It's only now that I've started exploring my body intelligence, and I feel like a child. I didn't know these parts of my body! When I lean this way, that part of me leans that-a-way. How fascinating! I still don't know what I can do.. or what my body takes.
I just left the physio and learned quite a bit about the two halves of my body. We focused mainly on my right shoulder and mid-back, using the left side as a control. I didn't realize how contorted I am, and how weak. My right shoulder is pushed forward, and the entire right side of my back is overcompensating to keep me in line. Poor little back! I had no idea.
I'm trying to listen to what my body is saying, but to me it is completely foreign. The language and ways of understanding in this medium are completely different than to what I've become accustomed. Fortunately, I've always loved language. Hopefully, I'm as quick a study with this as with spoken language.
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