While you're vegging (or perhaps you have a standing workstation for your computer-time which would be SO smart of you) at the computer and think it's only your brain and eyeballs and fingers that are working right now.
Well, surprise! You're always tearing down & building up your body's cells. So even when you appear to be doing nothing, there's a whole lot of important stuff going on. Your job (your real job) is to replicate every cell in your body, perfectly. There are no ancient cells in your body. You replace them every 7 years. By the time you were 20 you'd done that successfully several times already. As you're reading this you've probably done this many more since then. Many cells are replaced faster, and you're mostly water anyhow (taking a sip, now) so you'll want to keep that supply pure and plentiful, no?
So what do you think? When you were a kid, you had a lot of fun, learned new things, danced and swam, skipped and climbed (well, maybe you paddled a canoe), what I'm getting to is this: maybe you have to move around a WHOLE LOT (get lots of blood circulating to ALL your tissues) on a regular basis to get that job done (the re-making of you) perfectly. You did it just fine as a young person and let's face it, you weren't all that learned then, you just moved around a lot. So maybe aging could be looked as: cells being replaced by one whose movement/circulation isn't sufficient to get the cells copied perfectly. Maybe it's not just time on the clock, but how you're behaving as the clock is ticking.
It just may be how and how much you are in the habit of moving (lately; like over the last seven years) that determines how successful your cell re-creation (wouldn't want to call it recreation: that makes it sound like fun :o) can be. And even when you're old as me, moving all over can be a pleasure and as simple as going for a walk (& especially if you employ reciprocal arm motion). Check back for the next installment: the magic of reciprocal arm motion!!
I've been inching myself [for the last year or so] into better and better alignment. My muscles are VERY happy to becoming ever-closer to their optimal length. I'm getting dangerously close to standing up with legs absolutely straight and I'll be darned if I don't feel like playing and dancing and surfing (OK, I don't actually know how to surf) but I feel like I could [well, if the water were warmer hereabouts].
What I keep finding a complicated to say: the better my alignment is, the more fun I find it to be in my body. Core strength alone was not enough: even getting pretty-darned-close to good alignment's made all the difference. And if I could happen upon this starting my alignment adventure at age 60, imagine how easy it can be for you.
Come see me in at Body Wisdom Studio in Pt. Richmond for a class: there are many. Katy's coming soon: check the A&W website! I have colleagues around the world, and you can find one near you, here: AlignedandWell.com. If you live on a mountaintop, there are a line of DVDs, a really good book, Katy's blog, plenty of resources to get you started on the road to feeling so good you'll want to run and jump, too. Cartwheel. Surf. Shuffle off to Buffalo.
Enough. I'm going for a walk and I'll probably do a cartwheel or two. I may turn heads. I'm an actor and I'm used to people watching me, I think I can handle that. It's the blogging I find challenging!
