| What Sea Undertows Teach About StrengthI can tell if someone works out regularly by how they get out of the Caribbean Sea at Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman. The undertow is strong and there’s a big step up to get out of the water. It’s not uncommon to see people crawling out when they attempt to step out and a wave hits them just right. Many have someone on hand to help assist in pulling them out. I’ve stumbled a few times myself, especially if I step on coral just right and lose my balance a bit. Last week I watched an older couple pull each other down while trying to get out one afternoon after a swim. While they quickly recovered, dusted off the sand, and laughed it off, I heard a passerby say, “That’s why I stopped getting in the sea years ago.” The woman didn’t look much older than me, and I’m a few years shy of 50. Now I get it. There’s the fear of hurting yourself, damaging your pride, or worse…having a body part pop out of the top of your suit if you take a tumble. Don’t get me wrong, all of those things have gone through my head. Just like when I was hopping rock to rock while traversing a high sea situation where we ran out of beach with my husband a few days earlier, and that voice in my head was checking in with my stability so I wouldn’t slip. Do you find that voice showing up a bit more with age? That’s the nervous system asking for some agility training to soothe it. I know my in-laws rarely walk the beach anymore, and if they do it’s not far due to sore feet and back aches from the slant of the sand. Sure, there are safety concerns, but pain is a bugger. I’d be lying if I said this last trip I didn’t have some pain from the downward slope of the sand to the sea. Instead of avoiding the beach, I got out my red light therapy and did some extra myofascial work along with Block Therapy, my new addiction for helping me release tension in the back and hips. I love a good beach walk, and I’m not about to surrender to the pain. Aches, pains, and stiffness are common with age, but what you do with them makes the difference between being an ageless high performer and feeling past your prime. Working on the fascial tissue between my toes, around my hips, just above my pubic bone, my diaphragm, and the base of my skull on repeat for the last two weeks has been a remarkable routine for keeping me pain free, especially when challenged with uneven slopes, rock hopping, and walking in flip flops. If you haven’t listened to my podcast from two weeks ago with Deanna Hansen, I highly recommend it, as well as checking out her myofascial release techniques called Block Therapy. She challenged me to a month of her therapy to see what would happen to my body, and I have two more weeks left to go. We’ll be doing a follow-up podcast to share my results, but I wanted to share halfway through that there’s something to her technique and it’s worth a look. This is why I’ll be making sure to blend her techniques into my new course and programs coming in late March. Speaking of what’s on the horizon, I’m hosting a workshop on March 18th where I’ll be guiding you through creating your own health experience protocol.Click HERE to register, replays are available when you register.Here’s to being an ageless high performer,Dr. J |
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