A Place of Ease

There is a place of ease where the body is upright in such a way as to minimize the muscular forces working to hold us up. As we learn to live there on a regular basis ease becomes a constant in our lives. Instead most of us live in the “forward plane” of the body. See for yourself. Stand up with the feet about four inches apart and just pay attention to how you hold yourself in space. Is the weight forward or backwards in your heels? Are your thighs forward of your ankles or right over them? If in fact you are ever so slightly forward (bracing against gravity) The whole front of the body will become engaged in an effort to hold you up. This is involuntary. Our nervous system exists to create and maintain balance (homeostasis) and if it can’t have true balance it will foster within us an illusion of balance even though the illusion is making our muscles work harder over time and leave us exhausted at the end of the day.