For me moving or being still was always pain regardless. But that's one of the reasons why standing meditation works so well, it's completely different to any kind of physio or body building exercise about tensile muscle strength. It's the opposite and is about relaxation, letting all the tendons and ligaments and muscles sink downwards and release. The more release the more flow of blood and the less pain.
Yep, that's definitely what it does for me. I didn't go much into any meditative aspect, the video didn't delve into that, but "standing up relaxation" is what it is/does to me. I'm now doing it when I'm waiting for things.
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No worries I love to respond and be as helpful as I can. I did do all those tests and I think basically any other test there was. In general they came back negative or nothing was revealed as such in my case. My diet now is very Asian, lots of vegetables, usually with rice and small amounts of meat. And most importantly ALWAYS warm, never cold, and never cold drinks. This helped my digestion and then pain sooo much, it was a real game change for me. I unintentionally went vegetarian/vegan a few times for a couple of years as I was living with a vegetarian. But in the long run I found my body (Irish/Scottish heritage) needed to eat meat to be healthy, just not large amounts as I find even now by stomach will get inflamed if I eat too much of it for too long.Loveistheway, did you have to make any dietary changes? Also what is your diet like (if it's ok to ask) do you eat meat/vegan or vegetarian? Did you cut anything out/add anything, we have holistic and chinese medicine kinds of places in wales (cardiff/swansea area) also I saw in a youtube video once a Dr speaking about fibro advising tests for things like mycosis and toxin tests/mercury and things did you have those (I did say I was gonna ask a lot
Yep, to not cold, but warm my stomach doesn't like, so luke-warm or room temperature as much as possible, cold things maybe then mixed in or warming it up a bit in my mouth. Means I have to be quick to eat things and drink my almond milk up outside the fridge.
What about a person who cannot stand in one place for more than 30 seconds or so without back pain due to an injury?
This kind of Asian diet heavy on the veges and light on the meat is often spoken of as being good for many different kinds of ills, and I suspect it is true. It's basically how I eat, although not always all that light on the meat because I find my body has to have a certain amount of meat or it cannot function in a healthy way.
That was me. I started with 10 seconds or less and every day I tried to increase by a few seconds. As long as I didn't throw my back out I made good progress. But I'm sure you could start with something else depending on the structure of your body too.
I'm the same, I live in a very hot climate (at least now and at the time). Used to drink cold water to cool down, but then a doctor told me every time I did that I would shock my endocrine system and damage my digestion. (Like pouring ice onto a furnace-the furnace needs to burn more fuel to become hot and work again this using more energy and making me feel tired). I couldn't live without a way to make my inside cool though so the resolution I found was: warm drinks in temperature, but cool drinks in their pharmacological nature. Like drinking tea with bitter seeds (if I was in the mood) or eating watermelon or rockmelon or lettuce and then I found regardless of what temperature the food or drink was hot or warm, when I ate or drank those things inside my body temperature would cool down more than enough.
Usually I recommend people build up to things gradually, as you are saying here. However, in the case of the problem with my back, attempting to build up stamina for standing would further injure it, so I guess this standing meditation thing just isn't for me.
Not so sure I believe what that doctor told you. Of course, a different doctor will have a different opinion on this (I just asked one), and will say that what that doctor told you is untrue. I think it would depend on the circumstances, the individual's body type, the climate, and so on. There's no way that I can cool down drinking warm beverages no matter what kind it is, after being outside in the summer here. Most places on the planet don't get as hot as it does where I live, nor stay that way day after day for as long, and of course with the climate changing it is only getting hotter here. I can't afford the electric bill to air condition my home all day and night, even when it is that hot here. But I can afford my refrigerator and it has a freezer. I'll stick with my ice water in the summer!
Badger, do you drink tap water or bottled? (Someone told me there's no difference, but I can taste it)
