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By Michael Russell
 The image of the body beautiful is constantly with us, whether in the media, with new looks of the rich and famous or in adverts for new and miraculous supplements or exercise fads. What is this image? Well it tends to have toned hips and legs with a pert bottom, a strong stomach and an open chest. Only the genetically gifted or determined fitness freaks seem to embody this ideal, and yet this is in fact how everyone is designed. We all have bigger muscles in our legs than our anns because nature intended us to Use our legs as our means of transport. Around our middles are muscles in a similar shape to a girdle that hold our internal organs in the right place. Along our spines are muscles similar to strUts that can hold the spine long. In the middle of our body we have a big hinge, the hips, surrounded and protected by big muscles, which help us move around it.
So if we move using our hips as a hinge and our legs as support they will be fitter and
toned. If we then hold ourselves upright using our "girdle" and maintain a long spine with our "struts" we will then not tend to let our stomachs bulge and our shoulders collapse. Through rediscovering how our body is meant to move by feeling it from inside, the perfect body is achievable, and your own ideal body wlll emerge. You have to put time and intelligence into regular practice of course, but this can include walking, bending, playing games, entertaining and household chores, or they all involve you moving, and it is in this moving you can exercise, and enjoy discovering your body discovery does not have to be limited to set practice times for it is in the moments off the mat, sitting at your desk or doing the washing'up, that you understand the satisfaction of living correctly through your body Perhaps most interestingly, when you do start to move as you are meant to, your preconceptions of what you should look like fall away An infinitely more satisfying feeling replaces them, that of a feeling of being at home within your own skin.
Ape or Man
1. Poor habits, sitting at a desk, leaning and slouching, can all result in standing incorrectly, putting strain on parts of the body. With poor posture, the weight of the world really does rest on your shoulders and will eventually push you into the ground. Our bodies are remarkably similar to those of apes - we share similarly proportioned limbs and Joints - and yet our posture is markedly different. Part of this is due to the way we use our spine, In particular our lower spine. Through playing at copying the stance of an ape we can understand how we became upright and perhaps more Importantly what muscles are responsible for this step up in evolution. To copy the ape stance, let your legs be slightly wider than hlpwidth as this will give your hips some space to move through, and let your arms hang down, opening your back. Give yourself permission to play and be silly; after all you will look ridiculous sticking your bottom out and letting your arms hang down, so you might as well have fun while you do it. To get back to an upright stance first try squeezing your buttocks and letting your hips come forwards. The feeling is almost as if the muscles of your bottom are pushing you forward Itry not to slouch as you slowly stand upright!. Repeat this as many times as you need to, until you begin to realize how important your bottom is.
2. The variations on upright vary with perception and reality especially when our habutual patterns constantly reaffirm themselves in our posture.Take this slouch as an example.the weight of the world is begining to fall off the rounded shoulders making life uncomfortable for both the shoulders and the world that sits on them.
3.Look, too, at the stump here, in which the ewight of the world sits happily on the middle, which begins to bulge as a result.practise coming in and out of ape until you begin to feel the hinging of your hips forwards and backwards.since this is the reason we cand walk tall without bulges.
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