Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Winter balance
Snowboarder Daniela Meuli
If ever there was a moment to keep a free neck and good balance, it's on the slopes. The instinctive split second reactions required to perform at such heightened levels requires a co-ordination that is unimpaired by unnecessary tensions that can interfere with the subtlety and speed of adjustment. It's bad enough balancing on two feet on a wet floor in the supermarket, doing it here at 90mph is something else.
However, no matter what activity we undertake, and it doesn't need to be a winter Olympics record attempt, we need our own systems to be working 100%. And in order to achieve that, we need to free ourselves of unwanted habits that fix our necks, shoulders, knees and put us off balance. The unnecessary strain of tightening muscles to prevent our body from falling over when we're constantly off balance with habitual tensions, is enough to undermine our best attempts at any activity.
So If we're going to perform to our best, be it in sport, public speaking, dancing or music, it's worthwhile not only practicing the actual activity itself, but aside of that, to remove any unnecessary tensions to improve our co-ordination and balance. Only then will we be able to give of our best.
