fybromyalgia

[Anonymous]

Thank you Paul for a suberb course, I am on week three. I have Fybromyalgia and find it difficult to stay in one position too long. but i am taking it slow when doing the sinking and i am adding a minute to my time every week, i am now up to 3 mins.
when i do the body breathing do you have to do it laying down on the floor or can you do it on the bed. I find it hard to lay on the floor even on a yoga mat., sorry if this has been answered before.

[Anonymous]

Hi There… best wishes, and I just want to respond (add 2cents).. I’m not trying to answer for Paul, or any others…
–congrats on your results, and I would just add (as you’ve discovered, but this might help reinforce)– which all can use, social-proof and all.. as our “culture” says.. long-time= better & “a few minutes can’t be long enough” .. but it can be..
* the more one can “let-go” (of all the internal bindings, “contraction-squeeze-holding” of physical-tension and mind, and the more one can “move inside” (internal motion)– the more tiring it is.. even a minute of focused concentration (not forced, but presence “without the tension” that might be automatic), can be something..

(may seem obvious, but the course and your experience, but I find myself still struggling (subconsciously) with that, even having practiced these arts long-enough I should know.. I feel the “understanding” of our culture is an actual-thing that affects us… (let alone others learning, even if they say they accept, don’t really.. for ex I have, for yrs, mentioned little things to my grandparents, and they don’t really even try bits.. as “what can it do to help?” they ask)
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in terms of Body Breathing- I don’t know the course, but just a thought that might add(?) -a key is how to “let-go” and simul include more of system: eventually that upgrades breathing- standing, or sitting also.. but laying-down relieves the spine holding, and gravity changes pressures..

-on a bed does change how you “sink in”.. vs on the floor, the spine is more flat (many are used- sit/stand or lay on mattress/cushion.. a slumpy-rounded spine… – flat on floor requires that spine not to round.. so that might be part?

— maybe other issues- but I think just as stand, or movement, staying in 70% (at ease.. even with a pause-rest then again, during a practice), do what can, even if that means not doing the exercise “ideal”.. thus doing what you can, whether you later can do longer, or more intense, or change from bed- to floor.. or not.. that could be a way to ease-in.. but the key, do what you can, and not practice in strain.

(the saying “What you practice, you become.” -thus practice, forcing.. get good at being in a state of forcing… so if your practice is easy, get good at being in a state of ease- “while” being a bit more integrated, and open, etc…. -which is a bit trickier than might seem (not just an issue for those with issues of strain, but as much- more?- for those even vibrant-health.. as this let-go/sung, to develop “internal power” requires thinking-noticing in a different way.
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luck.. I hope that helps -any others reading this have related issue-questions-experiences?

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