Sanity obviously depends on both our minds and bodies staying healthy. Anybody who reads this understands that our physical health — something that the parasite class consistently tries to undermine by adding toxins to our air, water, food, not to mention via umpteen other methods — is of paramount importance. Recently, and in a bid to focus on improving my health in many areas, after the cumulative toll of three years of trying to deal with the incessant nonsense, I’ve been thinking about habits that do not serve my one and only precious body, how to let them go and replacing them with healthy ones. For example, one of the most obvious which I don’t do enough and which needs to be done more and more as we get older: stretching.
Thinking about Fascia
We are 75% water - so where is it?
asks advanced craniosacral therapist Yolanda in Quiet Mind & Brain Healing.
She answers that question:
“The issues are in the tissues!”
and a few others in this introduction to fascia, the frequently overlooked stuff that holds our bodies together:
Fascia separates, supports, connects, protects and as such it profoundly influences all other body systems and functions every muscle, bone, nerve, organ and cell in the body from the top of your head to the tip of your toes.
A natural bandage
The 19th-century anatomist Erasmus Wilson called this tissue – now known as fascia – a natural bandage. In dissection, that is exactly what it looks like: sheets of white, fibrous connective tissue that are strong yet flexible and perfect for keeping muscles and organs in place. They are also sticky, gloopy and get in the way of looking at the muscles, bones and organs they cover. Which explains why, for years, anatomists cut this tissue off, chucked it away and thought little more about it.
Recently, though, researchers have begun to take a fresh look at fascia and are finding that it is anything but an inert wrapping. Instead, it is the site of biological activity that explains some of the links between lifestyle and health. It may even be a new type of sensory organ.
(From New Scientist)
As my Dad used to love saying: “Health is wealth” and all of us could focus more on getting richer in that regard.
This one comes at such a good time for me. I've been struggling with a fasciitis compression (don't want to get too specific here for my own reasons!) ... but this reminds me I really have to decompress and let it heal .... So hard to do -- to slow down & redirect. And thanks, Yolanda!