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Complete
body image
– the client has access to the information coming from and motor access
so the entire kinesthetic body, with minimal
areas of
stillness, holding, or ‘sensory-motor
amnesia’. |
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Skeletal
alignment and support
– the bones are aligned in a way that allows minimum effort
for standing and action. |
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Tensegrity
/ palintonicity
– the myofascial tissues are balanced around the skeletal structure
such that there is a general evenness of tone, rather than islands
of
higher tension or
slackened tissues. |
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Length
– the body lives its full length in both the trunk and limbs, and in
the muscles and the joints, rather than moving in shortness and
compression.
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Resilience
– the ability to bear stress without breaking, and to resume a
balanced existence
when the stress is removed.
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Ability
to hold and release somato-emotional
– the ability to hold a emotional charge without
acting it out, and
to release it into action or simply into letting
go when the time is appropriate. |
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Unity
of intent with diffuse awareness
– structural integration implies the ability to focus on any given
task or perception while maintaining a diffuse peripheral
awareness of
whatever is going on around
this focused activity. Focus without
contextual awareness is fanatic;
awareness without
focus is ineffective. |
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Reduced
effort, in
standing and movement – less ‘parasitic’ tension or unnecessary
compensatory
movement involved in any given task.
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Range
of motion,
generosity of movement – less restriction in any given activity, and
that,
within the limits of health, age, history, and genetic make-up,
the full range
of human movement is available. |
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Reduced
pain
– that standing and activity be as free of structural pain as
possible.
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Reproduced with permission from Kinesis Inc., Thomas W. Myers Founder and Director
Myofascial
Integration / Kinesis Inc.
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