The great things about Walking Back to Health

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Everywhere, there is certainly movement in this expanse of trees and grass and temples. All ages–from 9 to 99–are here, practicing Tai Chi and Sword Arts, swinging their arms, rubbing their kidneys, rotating their waists, and hanging from low-hanging tree branches (to stretch their spines).

Amid this all, is one thing which makes me rub my sleepy eyes and appearance again: teams of women are walking backwards inside the lane. Just that: walking backwards, calmly and confidently.

This ancient exercise (yes! It is really an exercise!) is probably the treasures of Chinese health practice, addressing problems with balance, leg strength, back strength, and posture. It may look like simple, but the main reasons why this is a sound practice are profound. Once you several:

1. As our bodies age, our fear of falling causes us to react wrongly. When babies fall backwards, they just plump down to a sitting position, but this tendency disappears once we get older. Many falls end up going backward because we arch our backs. Walking backwards rounds that a part of our back we arch, and encourages ‘forward’ muscle use.

2. Anything that is wrong about your posture came from walking forward! Slumping, slouching, rounding, arching…dozens of bad habits. Walking backwards reverses these habits.

3. From an energetics standpoint, walking backwards actually re-frames consciousness within our bodies. The easy explanation is always that our attention tends to favor the leading individuals bodies for the exclusion of what’s behind us. Chinese health insurance martial exercises both encourage ‘whole body’ awareness for ‘whole body’ health. Walking backwards results in a ‘sensor’ to integrate the bradenton area.

4. Walking backwards actually engages completely different teams of muscles. This is important especially as our bodies age, because we lose flexibility and our range of motion often diminishes. By using different muscles we exercise aspects of our own bodies that require attention.

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