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Floor Squats – one mobility to rule them all
Playing sports, running or working out, I’d always be dealing with these issues.
- Plantar fasciitis
- Achilles tendonitis
- Shin splints
- Calf strain
- Patellar tendonitis
- Behind the knee strain
- IT band
- Hamstring strain
- Sciatica
- Tailbone strain
- Lower back strain
These are things I used to try and fix it.
- Trigger points
- Foam rollers
- Compression sleeves
- Massage gun
- Cupping
- Scraping
- Flossing
They worked to some degree, provided some temporary relief but weren’t really permanent.
This is the one thing that helped me gain a more lasting solution.
Floor squats and increasing the deeper range. That’s it. This single mobility ability got rid of all my issues.
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Personality tells us how we relate to the world
Thoughts on Meyer’s Briggs. I think the most common introduction to Meyer’s Briggs is the 16 personality types. Which many people write off because it feels like a horoscope or Zodiac signs. Which is understandable and can feel that way. And I think a lot of people don’t believe or like the idea of being type casted into one of 16 personalities. But put aside the idea that it’s on a spectrum of 16 personality types, not 16 exact personality types.
What I think is useful or maybe can be more appreciated and a more applicable understanding of Myer’s Briggs is the concept of Cognitive Functions. Which mostly attempts to tell the story of how we as humans interact with and understand the world in four different phases.
- Our relationship from world to self – do we spend more time in our inner world or outer world.
- How we receive, perceive, organize and sort information.
- How we calculate, think, value, judge and process information to make a decision.
- Our relationship from self to world – how do we interact with and take action in the world.
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Believe in yourself
It’s scary to think outside of a belief system. It’s confusing to think maybe this system doesn’t have everything all figured out. It’s stressful to think there might be some contradictions or something might not be accurate. It’s unnerving to think think you might’ve been wrong this whole time. It’s overwhelming to think outside of the box. It’s frustrating to have to figure things out on your own. It’s uncertain to think you can come up with answers, solutions, a path for yourself.
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Labyrinth
“Imprisoned by fear, a man uses a labyrinth to sketch out his freedom but in the end just finds himself in a different maze.”
I wrote this story as a metaphor – the struggle between our Ego and Spirit. The Ego always trying to take control, a triggering self-defense mechanism, constantly fighting for survival and self-preservation. If we are not careful the Ego will simply move into the driver’s seat. When the Spirit tries to take back control, the Ego will use force to get back into the seat, defensiveness, an outburst, emotion, trauma, trigger. If we grow some awareness, the Ego will use its cunning to manipulate, outwit, contort the truth to take control. The Ego has one advantage, it knows us better than we know ourselves. By the time we realize the Ego has taken over it will have created a complicated, sophisticated labyrinth, too difficult to free ourselves from because the biggest trick the Ego fabricates is the illusion, belief of not even realizing we’re in a construction – the labyrinth.
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Destination
The hidden path, the invisible journey, the secret is that dreams are a destination for us to become who we were meant to be and the revelation and perseverance it takes to get there. Destination.
There is no final destination. Ultimately, we are the final product, it is not the success, accomplishment or outcome that is the most valuable product, it is who we become during that process. There is no shortcut to awareness, revelation and empowerment through failed experiments. The value of experience, development of insight and intuition. The wisdom and moral value of how we process and make decisions.
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Destiny
Your desire and dream are not the same thing. Separate desires and dreams. Remove your desire from your mindset. Desire is something not yet done, not yet achieved, not accomplished. Destiny is already done, it is already completed. What will be, already is. Removing desire, frees us from determination, drive and demand – liberating us from the expectation. That freedom allows us to do what we need to do, simply as a basic foundational essential, like breathing, but then learn every hidden lesson, invisible growth path that we need to learn along the way.
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Demand
Desire, drive, determination causes Demand. Demand creates a competive, scarcity mindset. Demand is an expectation of an outcome – the result. As if everything we do, the desire, drive, determination will produce the outcome we want. As if it is guaranteed, expectant, entitled.
Demand is what creates expectations of outcome and the dichotemy of failure and success and hence the pattern of fear of judgment, rejection and separation.