Gravity is your friend. Tap into its life-supporting power.
How you move in relation to gravity is a key to health and wellbeing.
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Your brain senses gravity and where you are in space through your vestibular system (inner ear). This helps to keep you grounded and balanced, and facilitates all your movements, inner and outer, physical, mental, and emotional.
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The better your relationship with the earth, the better your balance, the better all aspects of yourself are supported.
"Thinking of gravity like an astronaut gets you moving. Here on Earth the consequences of too much sitting are reversed--regardless of age--when we stand up and move about. We cannot help but use gravity effectively whenever we move .... Gravity is responsible for our sense of weight, direction, acceleration, the change in posture signal, balance, and coordination. Effective gravity-using movement involves frequent changes in all of these aspects, throughout the day, every day. Though these movements are absent in space, we on Earth may enjoy gravity's benefits abundantly. It's merely a matter of choosing to make them part of our daily habits." ~ Dr. Joan Vernikos
Studies show that stimulating your vestibular system can
positively influence aging
improve metabolism/help regulate food intake
help regulate insulin
help hypertension
increase bone density
improve memory/prevent hippocampus atrophy
improve spacial memory
improve sleep/tune circadian rhythms
