Byron Katie is an interesting woman author/thinker who has an interesting scholar/writer for a husband. She and Dr. Wayne Dyer made recorded a session together. During a Q&A period Katie said that she was having the time of her life watching her 60-something body fall apart. I feel the same way, so far. It really is interesting to see what goes first, how much loss there is in this sense, that muscle group.
I am interested in fighting aging, resisting it but I am also interested in doing so in appropriate moderation, with appropriate acceptance. What is appropriate? What I decide is right. I am the best judge. I don't want to be too slack, nor too rigorous.
I have had relatively tight hamstrings for at least 10 years. Some of my friends have said," Of course, you are tight. Look at you! You are not a relaxed sort of person. You are very focused and hardly ever laid back." When I took my first couple of yoga classes, I saw many women in the class who could sit on the floor with their legs in a V shape out in front of them and completely fold over, putting their upper body against the floor. If I sit like that, I can bend a few degrees forward and that is absolutely all I can do.
A physical therapist asked me to go through the set of exercises I use to keep my back healthy and limber. She warned me that she saw a tendency to "go ballistic", her term for determinedly making my body stretch. She said I was using a good method for tightening myself over and over.
I am entering an age where being able to move is the goal, moving itself. I have never been a big competitor but I am even less so now. I don't care how many people pass the finish line before me. Just getting to the line is satisfaction for me. Just accomplishing the movement, doing the exercise is an important achievement.
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Bill
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