So it turns out that the longest lived people don’t sit in a chair all their life-long days.
No doubt, there are people who live past the point of ripeness, who spent a lot of hours each day in a comfy chair.
But it turns out that a good many people in Okinawa and Ikaria, and other places such as Sardinia, don’t care too much for the chair, and a considerable number of them live longer as a result.
It also turns out that the more time you spend sitting in a chair, the stiffer your body gets, especially your hips, knees and back.
Joint stiffness means a lot of things. It means you’re losing strength and energy, as well as your childlike mobility.
It also means reduced blood flow which then leads to the deterioration of cartilage and decay of the joint itself.
For a long time, my contention has been that sitting ain’t bad for you. Sitting is not the new “smoking.” It’s what you sit on that either heals or destroys your body. And it just so happens that the ground itself heals your body while the chair taketh healing away.
Similar truths can be told about standing and walking.
If you stand still for lengthy periods of time in various regenerative postures, ground force energy begins to heal, strengthen and energize your body. And when it comes to walking, the same-ole, same-ole mode of locomotion ain’t a gonna cut it – but the surgeons, well, they’ll be mighty happy to make a cut, and their patients will be the ones who suffer pay cuts as they increase the cutting.
Joints don’t deteriorate because you’re old. They deteriorate because you’re doing something wrong.
You wouldn’t think that forward walking is wrong. After all, everyone does it. But if you want to put a stop to something negative and degenerative going on in your body, you reverse course immediately, sometime during each and every day, to stimulate your brain and body in reverse, to turn back the clock.
Sitting on the floor, standing in various postures and walking in ways you don’t normally move, makes you childlike again.
The best news of all is that you can restore, rejuvenate and regenerate, if you make a change for the better.
Start to unwind the negative going on in your body with by doing the opposite of what you normally do for short periods of time each day. And as you experience the benefits, continue to add more time into the mix.
Here endeth the lesson!
Matt Furey
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