Habit of the Week - HOW

Our bodies adapt to the load we give them.  Make no demands upon yourself, physically, like say, stay in bed all day, and pretty soon all you will be able to do is.....stay in bed all day.  Your muscles weaken even your bone density can decrease.  Yikes.  This actually happened to the early astronauts, who were, of course, fit young strong men, their bone density went down because in space, the pull of tendon, muscle and ligament is reduced and less force goes through the bones.  Let me paraphrase:- in space no one can ........measure your bone density!  ha

What does this mean for us?

The less we do, the less we are able to do.   I am reminded of the adage:-      
       "We don't grow old and slow down, we slow down and grow old"

Importantly, the reverse is also true, when our bodies adapt to the load we give them, it means that if we require a little more of ourselves we can become stronger.  So at any age, we can expect to be stronger next year, than we are this year.

When we follow Habit of the Week - HOW whatever that maybe, we make small changes to our posture, etc and our body adapts to the new posture.  As we try to implement that new change every day, our postural muscles gradually become stronger. And if we try more often,  as many times a day as you can remember, the adaptation happens sooner.

So follow the HOW and try to do it regularly, during the week, and expect to see some positive changes, like easier breathing, better digestion, fewer aches and pains.